Guadalupe Paz

Mezzo-soprano, Guadalupe Paz, is a young artist with an extensive career in Rossini roles. Since her participation at the Rossini Opera Festival’s Accademia, she developed her repertoire on roles like Angelina (La Cenerentola), Rosina (Barbero di Siviglia), Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri). She recently made her debut in as Melibea in “Il viaggio a Reims” at Teatro Bellas Artes.

Guadalupe Paz has performed sacred repertoire such as Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Bruckner F Minor Mass, Leo Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, this one performed at the International Cervantino Festival, as well as performances of other modern and contemporary composers such as Cary Ratliff’s Ode to Common Things with La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, Mario Lavista’s Tres Canciones para Orquesta y MezzosopranoI at the International Festival Instrumenta, Manuel De Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares, Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, the latter performed at the Harris Hall during the Aspen Music Festival in 2013.

Ms. Paz has had the pleasure of working under batons of great conductors such as Alberto Zedda, José Areán, Jan Latham Koenig, Eduardo Díaz Muñoz, Marco Balderi, Ligia Amadio, Nikza Bareza, David Chase and Iván López-Reynoso.

Among her most recent engagements we highlight her debut in the role of Melibeain Il Viaggio a Reims with the Bellas Artes National Opera; her debut in Auditorio Nacional –a 10,000 seat music hall– singing in a Gala with the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena, as well as singing the roles of Rosinain Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Teatro del Bicentenario Orchestra and Bellas Artes National Operawith Javier Camerena; also Angelina in La Cenerentola last April at Teatro del Bicentenario, (Mexico) and the Bellas Artes National Opera Company; Isolier in Le Comte Ory with The Philharmonic Orchestra of Jalisco; Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel with Bellas Artes National Opera Company Orchestra, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, in OlgaEugene Onegin as well as the roles of Maddalena in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival, Lucilla in L’Occasione fa il ladro, Ernestina in La Scala di Seta, Messaggiera in L’Orfeo, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, performed in the final stage of the Singing Competition Toti dal Monte in Treviso, Italy.

Ms. Paz is currently engaged in developing the new opera by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz, “El último sueño de Frida y Diego” for the San Diego Opera where she sings the lead role of iconic painter, Frida Kahlo. In the spring of 2020, she will participate in the premiere of Zorro by Héctor Armienta at Fort Worth Opera.