 Before switching to opera, the Spanish soprano Rocio Perez was trained in clarinet and drama in Madrid. In 2014 she entered the opera studio Colmar/Strasbourg, where she stayed two years. Subsequently she admitted at the young singer's program of the Opera House of Lyon.
Her career takes off after gaining lavish praise for her participation at La Fenice as Berenice in L'occasione fa il ladro by Rossini ; at deutsche Oper Berlin and the Semperoper Dresden as Queen of the Night and eventually at the opera house of Helsinki as Olympia (Hoffmann's Tales).
Recent rôles included Violetta in La Traviata (Cordoba), Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Opera house of Nancy, the title role in Manon Lescaut by composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, at the Opera house of Turin ; Olympia - one of her “fétish” roles - in Hoffmann’s tales (Offenbach) at Teatro de la Fenice ; next to the stunning virtuoso part of Aristea in L'Olimpiade by Cimarosa alongside Les Talens lyriques under M° Christophe Rousset at Theater an der Wien and the Royal Opera house of Versailles where it was recorded and meanwhile released. Also noteworthy: her participation in the double bill of Rossignol by Stravinsky, in the title role, and in Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc) as Thérèse at the Opera house of Nice and her appearance in the leading female role of Doña Inés at Teatro de la Zarzuela in the world premiere of Arturo Diez Boscovich's new opera El Caballero de Olmedo. An opera composed after Felix Lope de Vega and adapted by Lluís Pasqual.
Amongst her upcoming new parts: the title role in Ifigenia by Tommaso Traetta at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2025 alongside Christophe Rousset and his Talens lyriques, Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten) and Esmeralda in new production in the original Chech version originale of The bartered bride by Smetana, a new production at Teatro Real Madrid.
In concert, upon invitation of the Caravaggio Ensemble, Rocio will participate at the Saint-Denis Festival (Paris) 2025 in Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, an oratorio by the young Mozart. The artist will also sing the solo soprano part in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis de Beethoven alongside the RTVE orchestra Madrid.
Other significant roles
Nannetta in a new productions of Falstaff at Teatro Real Madrid and the Opera house of Nice ; Dinorah (Dinorah ou le pardon de Ploërmel) by Giacomo Meyerbeer at deutsche Oper Berlin and Gilda (Rigoletto) at the Opera House of Nancy. In between she debuts in several Mozart roles : Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Blonde (The abduction of the Seraglio), next to Tonina (Prima la Musica poi le parole) and Frau Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor, Salieri/Mozart).
Whilst trained in Strasbourg and Lyon, Rocio Perez also participated in main productions. It allowed her to build up her repertoire with roles such asTebaldo (Don Carlo), Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto), Fanny (La Cambiale di Matrimonio), Le Feu, La Princesse and Rossignol (L'Enfant et les sortilèges), Cleone (Ermione, Rossini), Amore and Damigella (L'Incoronazione di Poppea), Anastasie (Cendrillon) and Norina (Don Pasquale) and to be at the same time directed by acclaimed personalities such as Olivier Py, Robert Carsen, Christophe Gayral, Marie-Ève Signeyrole and Valentina Carrasco and to be conducted by Patrick Davin, Antonino Fogliani, Marcus Bosch, Alberto Zedda, Daniele Callegari among others.
Awards
2018 : 4th Grand Prize at the renowned International Queen Elisabeth Voice Competition (Belgium) and called Laureate of this legendary Competition.
2016 : 3rd Prize and Young Artist Prize at the very first edition of the International Singing Competition "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".
2015 : several Prizes at the XXVII “Concours de chant Lyrique de Marmande”.
Update biography May 2025. Please contact the agency to get the most recent update of Rocío Pérez' biography.
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