Adriana González
Soprano
© Aline Kundig
The Guatemalan soprano Adriana González is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her German debut last season as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, for Micaëla in this wonderful production of Carmen. She won Operalia, a competition started by Placido Domingo, in 2019 and the Pepita Embil Zarzuela Prize in Prague. Future plans include her debut at Houston Grand Opera as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and Mimì in La Bohème at the Opéra de Toulon. Her second recording: The Complete Songs: Isaac Albéniz (Audax Records) has been released and her first, (released 2020): Mélodies Dussaut & Covalti (Audax Records) with the conductor and pianist Iñaki Encina Oyón won the German recording critics' prize. She won the Hemeroteca Nacional de Guatemala's 2009 New Upcoming Artist Award. After studying at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala she joined the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris for the 2017/18 season, where she sang Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Così fan tutte) and Sapho/Iphise (Rameau's Les fêtes d’Hébé). She was awarded the 2017 Prix Lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux before leaving the opera studio in Paris. In she won 1st prize at the 2016 International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna, the Oper Burg Gars prize for her interpretation of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and 2nd prize at the 2017 Concurso Tenor Viñas in the Grand Teatre del Liceu. Adriana González was also a member of Opera Zurich's International Opera Studio.