American soprano Ailyn Pérez made her San Diego Opera debut last season as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She made her professional debut at Palm Beach Opera where she sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Soeur Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites. She recently performed Juliette with the Salzburg Festival, the Four Heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann with Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Michigan Opera Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera as well with the Salzburg Festival on a tour of Japan. Other notable performances include Violetta in La traviata with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Amor in the world premiere of Concierto para Mendez with Los Angeles Opera and Gilda in Rigoletto for Opera Carolina. She has also toured the United States and Mexico on tour with Andrea Bocelli. Other roles in repertoire include the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor, Adina in The Elixir of Love, Suzel in L’amico Fritz, Mimi in La bohème and Anna in Le villi. She was the 2007 winner of the Shoshana Foundation Career Grant.