Guadalupe Paz
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 Mezzosoprano 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 Melibea in 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 Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Teatro del Bicentenario Orchestra and Bellas Artes National Opera with 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 Olga Eugene 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. In September 2016 she is invited to sing Angelina in La Cenerentola in Colombia.
Ms. Paz graduated in lyric singing from Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatorio in Vicenza, Italy in 2009; other academic « etages » include Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado in 2013; and Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy 2008 and Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Italy. Most important accolades through her career include two 1st places at the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego; finals at the International Singing Competition Toti dal Monte, 2nd place winner of the Mexican Singing Competition Carlo Morelli; last December she received the inaugural first Rossini Award in the U.S. at the Palm Springs Vocal Competition in 2015. She was also a recipient of a grant from the Mexican National Funds for the Arts and Culture 2014-15