Hailed by The New York Times as “a beautiful woman who commands the stage” and “a major soprano,” Ailyn Pérez is in demand at the world’s leading opera houses and cultural capitals. As The Washington Post remarked, she is “a beautifully self-possessed singer, with a wonderfully expressive instrument.” Internationally celebrated for her signature artistry, as the winner of the 2012 Richard Tucker Award, Ms. Pérez became the first Hispanic recipient in the award’s history.
Ailyn continues to captivate audiences worldwide in the 2025–26 season, with an exciting lineup of operatic and concert engagements. She makes an anticipated return to the stage of The Metropolitan Opera in the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and will also make an exciting role debut as Verdi’s Aida at Semperoper Dresden. She also appears in two semi-staged performances of Tosca with the NAC in Ottawa. She returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper several times this season, beginning with Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, on tour in Shanghai. She will reprise her “sophisticated, technically brilliant” (Klassikbegeistert) portrayal of Nedda in Francesco Micheli’s production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, appears in the concert Oper für Alle, bows as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, and sings the title role in Puccini’s Tosca.
On the concert stage, Ms. Pérez opens her season at the Enescu Festival, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Later this season, she sings Verdi’s Requiem at Rome’s Sala Santa Cecilia and sings a recital with pianist Andrés Sarre at the Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado in Mexico.
