Jossie Pérez	review
Mezzo-soprano
New England First Place Winner, 1999
National Council Winner 1999

Highlights of this season include Sesto in La Clemenza Di Tito in Barcelona. Last season she sang Isabella in L’italiana In Algeri with Opera Pacific, Annio in Clemenza Di Tito with Washington National Opera, and Sifare in Mitridate in Granada, Spain as well as concerts of the Mozart Requiem in Madison, Wisconsin.

Earlier successes were the title role in Carmen in Boston and in France, Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia in Oviedo, Spain, Cherubino in Le Nozze Di Figaro, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Ascanio in Les Troyens, and Siébel in Faust with the Metropolitan Opera. She appeared in recital with Carol Vaness at the Casals Festival, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in San Antonio, and Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte in Santiago, Chile, the Spoleto Festival USA and in Boston, and Idamante in Idomeneo in Washington, DC with Placido Domingo. She also performed Ravel’s Chansons Madecasses with James Levine and the Met Chamber Ensemble at Weill Recital Hall.

Future engagements include Carmen at the Saito Kinen Festival in Summer 2007, with Seiji Ozawa conducting and the same role in Portland, Oregon.

Ms. Pérez was a winner of the National Council auditions at the Metropolitan Opera, the 2001 Operalia competition in Washington, and of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from The Richard Tucker Music Foundation. She was also a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

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