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Acclaimed
by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "powerful diva in the making"
Cuban-American soprano
ELIZABETH CABALLERO
is becoming widely recognized for her fearless portrayals of the
lyric soprano repertoire. She has been praised by Steven Smith
of the New York Times for providing:
"the evening's most
show-stopping performance offering a thrilling balance of
pearly tone, exacting technique and brazen physicality."
Highlights of Ms. Caballero’s 2007-2008 season include her
return to New York City Opera, where she appears as Nedda in a
new production of Pagliacci and reprises her popular
Musetta in La bohème. She also makes her anticipated
return to Florida Grand Opera as Mimi in La bohème. This
season Ms. Caballero makes numerous important debuts: at
Carnegie Hall as Lisa in La sonnambula with Opera
Orchestra of New York; at San Antonio Opera as Adina in
L’elisir d’amore, directed by Garry Marshall; and at
Opera
New Jersey as Violetta in La traviata. In
addition, she makes her international debut as Magda in La
rondine at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Italy.
Additional upcoming engagements include Elvira in Don
Giovanni with Nashville Opera, and the two leading ladies in
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; Susanna with Seattle Opera
and the Countess with Florida Grand Opera.
Last season, Ms. Caballero made her Metropolitan Opera debut as
Musetta in La bohème as part of the Met in the Parks
series. She has appeared as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni
with New York City Opera, Florentine Opera, and Mobile Opera, as
Micaëla in Carmen with Florida Grand Opera and Mobile
Opera, as Mimi in La bohème with Palm Beach Opera, and
the Merola Opera Program, and as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte
with the Merola Opera Program and Western Opera Theater.
In addition to being a National Grand Finalist in the 2001
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Caballero has
won numerous awards, including the Richard Gold Debut Artist
Award for her performance as Donna Elvira at New York City
Opera. She placed second in the Licia Albanese-Puccini
Foundation Competition, is a two time winner of the Gerda
Lissner Foundation, and also has received prizes from the George
London Foundation and Opera Index, Inc. She was an international
finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice
Competition and was nominated for a Sara Tucker Award in
association with the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Most
recently, Ms. Caballero was the recipient of the Diva Award from
New York City Opera, which is presented annually to an
outstanding female artist at NYCO who has reached an important
stage in her professional career.
A native of Havana, Cuba, she now resides in Miami and studies
with Manny Perez.
2/2008 – PLEASE
DESTROY ANY PREVIOUSLY DATED MATERIALS.
MODIFIED VERSIONS MUST BE APPROVED BY ELIZABETH CABALLERO.
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Elizabeth Caballero
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