The soprano Adriana González, winner of the first prize and the Zarzuela prize at the 2019 Operalia competition, is one of the most promising singers of her generation. She was born in 1991 in Guatemala, and studied at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, graduating in 2012. She went on to make debuts in her homeland as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice). As a member of the Académie of the Paris Opéra she sang Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Despina (Così fan tutte), and in the 2017/18 season she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House.
Past performances include Diane and First Priestess (Iphigénie en Tauride) and Brigitta (Iolanta) at the Paris Opéra, Alice (Le Comte Ory), a Flowermaiden (Parsifal) and Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) at the Zurich Opera House, Lia in a concert performance of Debussy’s L’Enfant prodigue in Nancy, Micaëla (Carmen) in Geneva, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Toulon, Liù (Turandot) in Houston, Toulon and Strasbourg, Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) in Nancy, Frankfurt and Luxembourg, Mimì (La bohème) in Barcelona and Toulon, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) in Houston and Écho in Gluck’s Écho et Narcisse in Versailles. As a concert singer her appearances have included Verdi’s Requiem under Lorenzo Viotti in Lisbon and under Fabio Luisi in Dallas; she has also sung in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Luisi in Parma.
Her numerous awards include third prize in the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Ireland, first prize in the International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna, second prize and audience prize at the Concurso Tenor Viñas at the Liceu in Barcelona, the prize of the Teatro Real in Madrid and the prize of the Associació d’Amics de l’Òpera de Sabadell. In 2009 she won the New Upcoming Artist Award of the Hemeroteca Nacional de Guatemala, and in 2017 she was awarded the Prix Lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux as a member of the Académie of the Paris Opéra.
Her debut album of songs by Robert Dussaut and Hélène Covatti (with the pianist Iñaki Encina Oyón) was released in 2020 by Audax Records; it received many plaudits from the critics, and was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award. In 2021 she released an album of songs by Isaac Albéniz.
Adriana González’s future engagements include Micaëla in Barcelona, Liù in Paris, Hamburg, Berlin and Dijon, Fiordiligi in Hamburg, Doña Inés in Tomás Marco’s opera Tenorio in Madrid and Countess Almaviva in Frankfurt.
