Mexican-American soprano Sydney Pérez is a recent graduate from the Longy School of Music of Bard College with a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance. This season, she made her Boston Lyric Opera debut in their production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and her New Jersey debut in Opera Golightly’s production of Weill’s Down in the Valley. She also joined the Civic Chorale of New Jersey as one of their featured Sonaré Young Artists in her Carnegie Hall debut, serving as a rehearsal soprano soloist and performing in Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Dominica under the baton of Maestro Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Her recent role highlights include The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Merécdès in Carmen, the title role in Princess Ida, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, and El Duende in Maria de Buenos Aires.