Ailyn Pérez

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.{{cite web|title=Opera's Next Wave|url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/8/Features/Ailyn_P%C3%A9rez.html|work=Opera News|accessdate=1 February 2015}}

In Autumn 2006, she toured with Andrea Bocelli as the guest soprano.{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tixgirl/320750219|title=Yahoo - login|publisher=|accessdate=31 January 2017}}

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 also sang the role at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/arts/music/review-la-boheme-in-all-its-excessive-glory.html|title=Review: 'La Bohème,' in All Its Excessive Glory|date=1 October 2016|work=The New York Times|accessdate=31 January 2017}} Her repertory includes roles like the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, and Micaëla in Carmen.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/06/stephen-costello-ailyn-perez-opera-duets|title=Love is in the Aria|last1=Fowler|first1=Damian|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=18 May 2012|publisher=Condé Nast Digita|accessdate=1 February 2015}}

Highlights in the 2018/19 season included Elvira in Ernani at Teatro alla Scala,Teatro alla Scala. [http://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/2017-2018/opera/ernani.html Ernani] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020205404/http://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/2017-2018/opera/ernani.html |date=2019-10-20 }}. Retrieved 2 November 2018. Mimì in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera, Alice in Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera,{{Cite web|url=https://www.metopera.org/season/2018-19-season/falstaff/|title=Metropolitan Opera {{!}} Falstaff|website=www.metopera.org|language=en|access-date=2019-01-12|archive-date=2019-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062757/https://www.metopera.org/season/2018-19-season/falstaff/|url-status=dead}} Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Houston Grand Opera,{{Cite web|url=https://www.houstongrandopera.org/dongiovanni|title=Don Giovanni : Houston Grand Opera|website=www.houstongrandopera.org|access-date=2019-01-12}} and Violetta in La traviata at the Bayerische Staatsoper.{{Cite web|url=https://www.staatsoper.de/stueckinfo/la-traviata/2019-06-28-19-00.html?tx_sfstaatsoper_pi1%5BfromSpielplan%5D=1&tx_sfstaatsoper_pi1%5BpageId%5D=528&cHash=4768cac306b6aca93028af00a7898948|title=La traviata|last=Staatsoper|first=Bayerische|website=Bayerische Staatsoper|language=de|access-date=2019-01-12|archive-date=2019-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062733/https://www.staatsoper.de/stueckinfo/la-traviata/2019-06-28-19-00.html?tx_sfstaatsoper_pi1%5BfromSpielplan%5D=1&tx_sfstaatsoper_pi1%5BpageId%5D=528&cHash=4768cac306b6aca93028af00a7898948|url-status=dead}}

In 2023, she sang in Spanish the title role of Florencia in the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas.

She placed second at Operalia in 2006, and at the Loren L. Zachary Competition{{Cite web|url=http://www.zacharysociety.org/finalists.htm|title=The Loren L. Zachary Society for the Performing Arts|website=www.zacharysociety.org|access-date=2018-11-19}} in 2005. In 2006, she received the Wolf Trap Opera Award, and was given an encouragement award from Opera Index. In 2007 she was the winner of the Shoshana Foundation Career Grant.{{cite web |url=http://www.shoshanafoundation.org/423.html |title=Richard F. Gold Career Grant Recipients |website=Shoshana Foundation |access-date=10 March 2024}} She was honored twice by the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, once as a second place winner in 2004, and again with the Distinguished Achievement Award In 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jazz.org/events/t-5975/|title=Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation 42nd Anniversary Gala Concert|website=Jazz at Lincoln Center|access-date=2018-11-19}} In 2012, she won the Placido Domingo Award,{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwopera/article/Ailyn-Prez-Wins-15th-Annual-Plcido-Domingo-Award-20121214|title=Ailyn Pérez Wins 15th Annual Plácido Domingo Award|author=BWW News Desk|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2018-11-19|language=en}} followed by the Martina Arroyo Foundation Award in 2017.

• Poème d'un jour. Iain Burnside Rosenblatt Recital. CD, texts and translations, live. OpusArte 2013
• Love Duets (2014) with Stephen Costello
• ''Great Scott by Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally. (2018)

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