During the 2021-2022 season, Cuban-American soprano Elaine Alvarez joins Chautauqua Opera for her company debut in the title role in Puccini’s Tosca. She also makes back-to-back company debuts in Verdi masterpieces as Violetta Valéry in La traviata with Fort Worth Opera, Desdemona in Otello for Livermore Valley Opera and Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo for Maryland Lyric Opera. Additional engagements for the 21/22 season include performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for Orchestra Miami and the Jacksonville Symphony, as well as a concert appearance celebrating Fort Worth Opera’s 75th anniversary season. Future seasons for Ms. Alvarez will include a debut for Opera Omaha in the title role in Suor Angelica and her first performances of the Verdi Requiem.
Other notable engagements have featured Alvarez in numerous role and house debuts of iconic leading ladies, including the title role of Aïda for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti, Tosca with Chorégies d’Orange and Opera de Oviedo; Mimì in La bohème for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Teatro Carlo Felice and Oper Frankfurt, among others; La traviata for Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Leipzig and Theater St. Gallen; Magda in La rondine for Oper Frankfurt; Kát’a Kabanová with Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Florencia en el Amazonas for San Diego Opera; the title role in Cecilia Valdez for Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid; major Verdi debuts as Elvira in Ernani, Hélène in the rarely produced Jerusalem, and the title role of Aïda for Opera Royal de Wallonie, as well as her first foray into the bel canto repertoire as Donizetti’s infamous Tudor Queen, Anna Bolena, in Liège and on tour at the Royal Opera House Muscat.
Ms. Alvarez made her New York recital debut in 2007 as a Grand Prize Winner of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. She then appeared as a featured performer for the Horne Foundation’s Annual Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall in 2010, alongside longtime mentor Warren Jones. Other notable concert credits include Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; a debut recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for The Vocal Arts Society; and featured performances as a guest artist with the New World Symphony.