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Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Hailed as a “true artist” (Opera News), Soprano Raquel González is a winner of the prestigious Sphinx Organization’s Medal of Excellence Award. Highlights of the 24/25 season include debuts with Opera Colorado in La bohème (Mimì) and the Colorado Symphony for Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Additional appearances include returns to Opera San Antonio and Austin Opera as the title role in Madama Butterfly, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for Don Carlo (Elisabetta), and The Metropolitan Opera to cover in La bohème (Mimì).

Last season Raquel made debuts with Houston Grand Opera for the title role in Madama Butterfly, Austin Opera for Carmen (Micaëla), and Berkshire Opera Festival for Faust (Marguerite). She also returned to the roster of The Metropolitan Opera for the company premiere of Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas. Additional performances includes a return to the New York Festival of Song for a concert of Latin music.

In 22/23 Raquel debuted with Opera San Antonio in Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) and Virginia Opera in La bohème (Mimì), and returned to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for Harvey Milk (Dianne Feinstein). Additional appearances included Queen City Opera in a concert of scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Iolanta, New York Festival of Song for Buenos Aires, Then and Now, and a solo recital at the University of Lynchburg.

Recent engagements include house debuts at Inland Opera Northwest in La traviata (Violetta) and Sarasota Opera in Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) in addition to joining the roster of The Metropolitan Opera for La bohème. On the concert stage, she debuted with the St. Louis Symphony and Music Director Stéphane Denève singing “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca and the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park for the Verdi Requiem. She also made a role/house debut at Chicago Opera Theater in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Kashchej the Immortal (Princess) conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. Additionally, Raquel returned to Lyric Opera of Kansas City for La bohème (Mimì), joined the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Madama Butterfly, made her role/house debut at New Orleans Opera in Turandot (Liù), and returned to WNO for a role debut in Silent Night (Anna Sørensen). She debuted at North Carolina Opera in Carmen (Micaëla), Atlanta Opera to reprise the Zvulun production of Eugene Onegin (Tatyana), Opera Tampa in La bohème (Mimì), Opera on the James in La traviata (Violetta), and Central City Opera in Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San).

Ms. González debuted at The Glimmerglass Festival in their production of The Magic Flute (First Lady) before returning as a guest artist for La bohème. Ms. González recently completed three seasons as a Young Artist with the Washington National Opera where she appeared in Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San), Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa Almaviva), Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), Carmen (Micaëla), and La bohème (Mimì). Additional assignments as a Young Artist at WNO included Hansel and Gretel (Sandman) and Dialogues of the Carmelites (Blanche cover). She also debuted with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in Otello (Desdemona).

AUGUST 2024