Yaritza Véliz
Guest of the OperaBiography
Chilean soprano Yaritza Véliz makes his Prague National Theatre Opera debut in 2022/23 season in Verdi’s La traviata. She was a member of Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House in London between 2018–2020, and in January 2020 she won the 3rd prize at the International Competition of Francesco Viñas in Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. In June 2022 she debuted at the Glyndebourne Festival as Mimi (La bohème) – a role she will reprise at The Royal Opera House in the 2023/24 season. She has guest apperared as Alice Ford (Falstaff) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Violetta (La traviata), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Clorinda (La Cenerentola) and Musetta (La bohème) at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago – Opéra nacional de Chile, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Teatro Municipal de Concepción, Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Handel’s Rodelinda at the 2021 Aspen Festival.