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Tijuana-born mezzosoprano Guadalupe Paz was a member of a children’s choir committed to the revival of sacred repertoire at the early age of 6 years old. Since then, music and singing marked her life. In 2009 she graduated from the Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo in Vicenza, Italy and since her professional debut in 2008, Paz has been an active performer for the National Opera Company of Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Recent engagements include her debut at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego as well as singing the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s _Carmen_ for the San Diego Opera Company. Other operatic roles in her repertoire include the leading role of Montezuma in _Montezuma_ by Carl H. Graun, Orlofsky in _Die Fledermaus_, Isabella in _L'italiana in Algeri_, Marchesa Melibea in _Il Viaggio a Reims_, Rosina in _Il Barbiere di Siviglia_, Angelina in _La Cenerentola_, Hänsel in _Hänsel und Gretel_, Suzuki in _Madama Butterfly_, Olga in _Eugene Onegin_; Isolier in _Le Comte Ory_, Maddalena and Marchesa Melibea in _Il Viaggio a Reims_, Lucilla in _L’Occasione fa il ladro_, Ernestina in _La Scala di Seta_, La Messaggiera in _L’Orfeo_ and Dorabella in _Cosí fan tutte_.

On the concert stage Mrs. Paz has performed gala concerts along notorious tenor Javier Camarena at Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, at Auditorio Príncipe Felipe de Asturias with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo and at Bellas Artes Theater in Mexico City with the Bellas Artes Orchestra.

Among sacred repertoire she has sung as soloist on _Stabat Mater_ by Pergolesi, _Magnificat_ and _Johannespassion_ by Bach, _Messiah_ by Handel, _Requiem_ and _Vesperae Solennes de Confessore_ by Mozart, Ninth Symphony and Choral Fantasy by Beethoven, _Stabat Mater_ and _Petite Messe Solennelle_ by Rossini, F Minor Mass by Bruckner and _The Glagolitic Mass_ by Leoš Janaček. Contemporary and Symphonic repertoire comprise Gustav Mahler’s 2nd and 3rd Symphonies performed at Palacio de Bellas Artes with the National Symphony Orchestra, Cary Ratliff’s _Ode to Common Things_ performed with La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, Mario Lavista’s _Tres Canciones para Orquesta y Mezzosoprano_, Manuel De Falla’s _Siete Canciones Populares_, _Romeo and Juliette_ by Hector Berlioz, and Kurt Weill’s _Seven Deadly Sins_, the latter performed at Harris Hall during the Aspen Music Festival in 2013.

Mrs. Paz has worked with great conductors such as Alberto Zedda, Jan Latham-Koenig, Eduardo Diaz-Muñoz, Yves Abel, Ivan López-Reynoso, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Srba Dnic, Marcelo Ayub, Nikza Bareza, among others. During her career she has also been a recipient of diverse accolades such as the 1st place in the inaugural competition of the Rossini Award in the United States in 2015 organized by the Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert, and a 3rd place in the open vocal category by the same competition in 2016. 1st place at the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego in 2013 and 2014, finalist at the International Singing Competition “Toti dal Monte”, and 2nd place winner of the Mexican Singing Competition “Carlo Morelli”.

Future engagements include the leading role of Frida Kahlo in the opera T_he last dream of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera_ by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz and the role of Mistress of the Novices in _Suor Angelica_ by G. Puccini both to be produced by the San Diego Opera Company in the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 respectively.