The New York Times describes Elizabeth Caballero as a “plushtoned, expressive soprano” and The Wall Street Journal exclaimsthat “Ms. Caballero is a find: her opulent soprano rings freely andl yrically throughout her range.” Ms. Caballero’s dramatically compelling interpretation of her signature role, Violetta in La Traviata, led to recent engagements to perform the role for houses across the country, such as The Metropolitan Opera, Opera Carolina, la Compañía Lírica Nacional in Costa Rica, Florentine Opera, Madison Opera, Pacific Symphony, and the Orlando Philharmonic.
Ms. Caballero recently made a series of house débuts, including Staatsoper Stuttgart as Mimi in La Bohème, The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City as Desdemona in Otello, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid singing the title role of the European premiere of Cecilia Valdés based on the Cuban novel of the same name. 2020 engagements were to include a return to Staatsoper Stuttgart for Boito’s Mefistofele, Mahler’s 8th Symphony for Pacific Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem for Portland Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera for their production of La Traviata, and her role début as Tosca.
Last season, Caballero joined Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera, performed Mimi in La Bohème at the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, and the Countess in Madison Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro. This season, she joins Oper Bern as their Tosca, sings the title role in Florencia en el Amazonas with Nashville Opera, and brings her celebrated Mimi in La Bohème to Fort Worth Opera. Recent engagements included returns to Staatsoper Stuttgart as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Florida Grand Opera as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Madison Symphony for their Christmas Gala Concerts. Further concert engagements were as the soprano soloist in Bruckner’s Te Deum and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the Colorado Symphony.
Caballero was engaged to perform the role of Musetta in La bohème for the Metropolitan Opera after grabbing the audience’s attention in the role at New York City Opera, where The New York Times hailed Ms. Caballero as “the evening’s most show-stopping performance offering a thrilling balance of pearly tone, exacting technique and brazen physicality.” She subsequently returned to The Met in their new production of Carmen as part of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD series and most recently in the role of Mimi in their production of La Bohème.
A house favorite at Florida Grand Opera, she dazzled audiences as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Liù in Turandot, Mimì in La bohème, Micaëla in Carmen, Magda in La rondine, and Mother/The Moon in Before Night Falls. Additional recent operatic engagements include Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Nashville Opera, Inland Northwest Opera, Pensacola Opera; the title role of Florencia en el Amazonas with Nashville Opera, New York City Opera and Madison Opera; a return to Seattle Opera as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw and as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, which she also performed with Lyric Opera Kansas City; a return to New York City Opera in Pagliacci and La Bohème; Micaëla in Carmen and Mimì in La Bohème at Central City Opera; Liù in Turandot and Zemfira/Nedda in Aleko/Pagliacci both at Opera Carolina; and Liù in Turandot and Mimì in La Bohème with Austin Opera.
Recent concert engagements include John Rutter’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall, Carmina Burana with the Florida Orchestra, Asheville Symphony and the National Chorale, Previn’s Honey and Rue with the Pacific Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem in Grand Rapids. Since her European début as Magda in La rondine at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Italy, Caballero has fostered strong relationships with companies around the globe. This led her to portray some of operas greatest roles on international stages throughout the world including Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly at the Staatsoper Berlin, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and the title role in The Merry Widow at Teatro Nacional Santo Domingo.
Ms. Caballero has impressed in the competition circuit, as well. She was a National Grand Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Gerda Lissner Foundation Award Winner, winner of the New York City Opera Diva Award, finalist in the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, and one of Miami’s Most Influential People by the Miami New Times. Additionally, in 2013, she was the recipient of the 2013 Frost School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Miami.
