Praised for her “velvety, dark-hued soprano that has a limpid seductiveness,” Mexican-American soprano Danielle Talamantes brings her artistry to leading stages across the U.S. and abroad.
In the 2026–27 season, she performs a Liederabend tour with her husband, bass-baritone Kerry Wilkerson including recitals presented by the En Vivo Concert Series at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Music for a Great Space in Greensboro, North Carolina. Other season highlights include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the National Philharmonic, Handel’s Messiah with Highland Park Presbyterian in Dallas, the Austin Symphony, and the San Antonio Master Singers, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Greensboro Symphony and the Harmonium of Texas.
Recent seasons have featured Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with Chorus Austin, Brahms’ Requiem with Choralis, her signature role of Mimì in La bohème with El Paso Opera, and Verdi’s Requiem with the Greensboro Symphony. Haydn’s Creation with New Dominion Chorale, recitals with Opera Roanoke, the Sitka Music Festival, and Close Encounters with Music, a featured recital with Lyric Fest of Philadelphia, and numerous concert and oratorio appearances including Britten’s War Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and several world premieres by composer Henry Dehlinger, including Kohelet and a rhapsody based on T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
On the opera stage, Talamantes has appeared with companies nationwide, including The Metropolitan Opera, where she performed Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen and Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco. Other highlights include Violetta in La traviata with Hawaii Opera Theater and Finger Lakes Opera, Susannah with Opera Roanoke, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Cedar Rapids Opera, and her debut at Spoleto Festival USA as Sergente in Cavalli’s Veremonda.
Her professional recordings include At That Hour: Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger (Avie Records), Canciones españolas, and Heaven and Earth: A Duke Ellington Songbook (MSR Classics). Danielle & Kerry are proud members of the Texas Commission on the Arts TX Touring Roster for the 2026-2028 seasons.