Lourdes Rodriguez from Hyattsville, Maryland, is a twenty-one-year-old coloratura soprano pursuing a career as a professional opera singer. She is in the final year of her Bachelor of Music in Performance (Voice) degree at Shenandoah Conservatory, where she will graduate this spring. In 2021, Lourdes received third place in both the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Virginia and NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition. In December 2021, she received an honorable mention in Friday Morning Music Club’s Sue Goetz Competition in Bethesda, Maryland. In November 2022, Lourdes won first place in the undergraduate voice category of Shenandoah Conservatory’s Student Soloists Competition. She performed in the winner’s concert with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra in February 2023.

Opera roles sung in her time at Shenandoah Conservatory include Angelina in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Dorinda in scenes from Handel’s Orlando in Shenandoah Conservatory’s Gothic Opera, Susanna in a scene from Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro, Titine in Germaine Tailleferre’s Le Pauvre Eugénie in Shenandoah Conservatory’s The New World of Opera, Nikki Giovanni in Hydrogen Jukebox, and most recently, Cobweb as well as covering Titania and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Last summer at the Vienna Summer Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, Lourdes covered Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and sang the roles of Venus in Pluto by Michael J. Polo and Bird Peddler in Mondo Novo by Paul Richards. In January 2023, she performed in concert as a recipient of the Wednesday Music Club Music Major scholarship in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Tonight Lourdes thanks her beloved family, friends, fellow colleagues and professors!