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Yaritza Véliz
Soprano
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Biography
Yaritza Véliz, a Chilean soprano, won San Francisco Opera's Emerging Stars 2023 competition. She debuted at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2022 as Mimi in La Bohème and appeared at the San Francisco Opera as Catrina in Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank.
Véliz has also performed as Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Komische Oper in Berlin and as Violetta in La Traviata at the National Theatre in Prague — a role she previously performed at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile. Véliz debuted at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as Suzel in a concert version of L'Amico Fritz with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. Over the past two seasons, she performed the role of Mimi at the Royal Opera House in London, the Hamburg State Opera, and the Grand Opera in Houston; the role of Violetta at the Norwegian National Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Rouen; the role of Juliette in Les Capulet et les Montaigu at the Opéra national de Lorraine; and the role of Adina in L'Élixir d'amour at the Santa Fe Opera.
She gave her first concert performances of Strauss's Four Last Songs and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Santiago de Chile Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli. She returned to the Royal Opera House in London as Micaëla in Carmen, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. She also made her debut as Desdemona in Otello at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, and debuted at the Dallas Opera as Violetta. During the 2025–26 season, she will perform as Mimi at the Dresden Semperoper and as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro at the Washington Opera.
She will debut at the Opéra national de Paris.
