Ailyn Pérez

Ailyn Pérez, 2013

Ailyn Pérez (born 1979)[1][2] is an American operatic soprano and the winner of the 2012 Richard Tucker Award.[1] In 2016, she received the $50,000 Beverly Sills Award.[3] She received a Sphinx Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Organization in 2017.[4]

Career

Pérez, daughter of Mexican immigrants, was born in Chicago and grew up in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, where she graduated from Elk Grove High School. She attended the Indiana University School of Music and the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts, graduating in 2006.[5]

She placed second at Operalia in 2006. She also placed second in the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation in 2004 and the George London Award in 2006, received an encouragement award from Opera Index, and placed second at the Loren L. Zachary Competition in 2005. In 2007 she was the winner of the Shoshana Foundation Career.

In Autumn 2006, she toured with Andrea Bocelli as the guest soprano.

In 2008, Pérez made her Salzburg Festival debut as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette alongside Rolando Villazón. Pérez is known as an interpreter of Violetta in La traviata, which she has performed at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and Royal Opera House. She has sung as Amelia alongside Plácido Domingo in Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Staatsoper and made her debut at La Scala in the same production. In 2010 she appeared as Mimì in La bohème at Cincinnati Opera and had her debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera in that role in 2016. Her repertory includes roles like the Countess and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and Marguerite in Faust.[6][2][7][5] Engagements in the 2009/10 season included gala performances with Plácido Domingo in Baku, Azerbaijan, and with José Carreras in São Paulo, Brazil.

Her former husband is the operatic tenor Stephen Costello.[6]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 Giovetti, Olivia (April 12, 2012). "Operavore Exclusive: Meet 2012 Richard Tucker Award Winner Ailyn Pérez". WQXR. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Ailyn Pérez" (in German). Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Soprano Ailyn Pérez Wins Beverly Sills Award" by Amanda Angel. WQXR-FM, April 7, 2016
  4. ↑ http://ailynperez.com/about/
  5. 1 2 "Opera's Next Wave". Opera News. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  6. 1 2 Fowler, Damian. "Love is in the Aria". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast Digita. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Schedule". Operabase. Retrieved April 12, 2013.

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