2022 WINNER - AMERICAN PRIZE IN VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Cuban-American mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora is passionate about creating and bringing new life to roles in Hispanic and Latin American opera. Lauded by Opera News for her “smoky tones” and “firm, pleasant voice and lively poise,” she has been recognized for notable work in Spanish/English operas including Hector Armienta’s Zorro and Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida. She is also known for her sultry Carmen, which she has performed numerous times, including her debut with Amarillo Opera. Dr. Flora was featured in Michael Ching’s Completing the Picture (November 2020 release), recorded and filmed remotely during the pandemic, for Opera Company Middlebury.
Opera roles include performances with Opera Company Middlebury/A Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice), Opera Columbus/Madama Butterfly (Suzuki), Erie Chamber Orchestra/Die Zauberflöte (Third Lady), Arizona Opera/La Cenerentola (Tisbe), Opera in the Heights/Don Giovanni (Zerlina), Opera Company Middlebury/Eugene Onegin (Olga), Northeast Symphony/La Traviata (Flora), Amhurst Orchestra/Carmen (Carmen), New Jersey Opera Theater/Gianni Schicci (Zita), Lyric Opera Theater/Ariadne auf Naxos (Der Komponist) Opera Festival di Roma/Le Nozze di Figaro (Marcellina) and more.
OFFICIAL BIO
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2022 WINNER - AMERICAN PRIZE
IN VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Cuban-American mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora is passionate about creating and bringing new life to roles in Hispanic and Latin American opera. Lauded by Opera News for her “smoky tones” and “firm, pleasant voice and lively poise,” she has been recognized for notable work in Spanish/English operas including Hector Armienta’s Zorro and Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida. She is also known for her sultry Carmen, which she has performed numerous times, including her debut with Amarillo Opera. Dr. Flora was featured in Michael Ching’s Completing the Picture (November 2020 release), recorded and filmed remotely during the pandemic, for Opera Company Middlebury.
THE LATEST
FEATURED ENGAGEMENTS
Top: as Toypurina in Opera Southwest’s 2022 production of the new Spanish/English opera Zorro, by Hector Armienta
Bottom Left: Amity Trio’s 2022 production of children’s opera Lucrecia y el canto de los dudasaurios by Nur Slim, sung in Spanish with English dialogue.
Bottom Right: 2022 production of Spanish/English opera Frida by Robert Rodriguez, with Opera Southwest
FEATURED
DIRECTING
& RECORDING
Top: Directing Opera Steamboat’s 2022 production of Lori Laitman’s opera The Three Feathers (libretto by Dana Gioia)
Middle left: upcoming 2023 album release: Canciones de mi Isla: Songs from my Island, with James Flora, tenor, Jose Melendez, piano, and Douglas Cardwell, percussion
Middle right: Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten, University of New Opera Theatre, April 1-3 2022 (director)
Bottom: Le Nozze di Figaro with Roswell Symphony Orchestra, February 2023 (director/Cherubino)
UPCOMING EVENTS
GALLERY
Eunice in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Opera Company Middlebury)
Flora in "La Traviata" (Opera Company Middlebury)
National Anthem (in Spanish) at New Mexico United game
Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly" (Opera Columbus)
In "Frida" with Opera Southwest
WATCH & LISTEN
VIDEO & AUDIO
Top: Canto Negro by Xavier Montsalvatge
(with Kristin Ditlow, piano)
Middle: Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona (with James Flora, tenor and Kristin Ditlow, piano)
Bottom: Pie Jesu from Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem (with the Idyllwild ARTS Festival Choir)
ACCLAIM
Opera News Japonica
“Olga Perez sang with smoky tones and proved
to be a dependable companion for Carmen.”
Arts & Culture
"Olga Perez Flora made Suzuki very much a leading role.”
Opera News
“Pitti-sing (Olga Perez)…displayed [a] firm, pleasant voice and lively poise onstage."
Houston Chronicle