MetOpera Concurso Winners [duplicate]

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Some of the greatest singers of the Metropolitan Opera joined the Met roster through the company’s audition program for young North Americans – among them Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Joyce DiDonato, and Jessye Norman. Today the audition program is known as the MetOpera Laffont Competition.

The competition dates back to the 1930s, but it was only in 2017 that the Met invited Mexico to be part of it. This opened the doors for young Mexican singers in large numbers to be seen and heard internationally. The San Miguel MetOpera Trust, A.C. (SMMT) was incorporated in 2019 to oversee the Mexico District of the Laffont Competition.

On Friday, October 4, at 7:30pm, you will be able to hear the outstanding young voices of four of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition winners that the San Miguel MetOpera Trust has proudly sponsored, with orchestral accompaniment. The venue is the 600-seat Fine Arts Center theatre of the American School Foundation in Mexico City.

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The singers are Denis Velez, soprano, from Puebla, the first Mexico District singer named a Grand National Finals winner of the competition, and Chicago Lyric Opera young artist; Efrain Corralejo, tenor, from Leon, Minnesota Opera young resident artist; Mayela Lopez, mezzo-soprano, from Guadalajara, resident artist, Mexico Opera Studio; and Juan Carlos Herredia, baritone, accomplished international solo artist.