Elizabeth Caballero (born May 1974,

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. She emigrated to the United States via the

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. Raised in

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, she studied piano as a child and later studied voice at Miami-Dade Community College. Transferring to the

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, she studied with Lorine Buffington and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. Upon graduation, she studied privately with Miami voice teacher Manny Perez, and continues to work with him.

Singing career

After the University of Miami, she participated in the Young Artist Program of the

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for the 1999–2000 season. She was an Adler Fellow at the

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in 2004, as well as a member of the company's Merola Opera Program for two summers from 2001 to 2002. In 2001, she was a National Grand Finalist in the

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National Council Auditions. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera,

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, the Teatro Verdi di Trieste,

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, and many other venues in

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and

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. In 2011, Caballero took part in Sabado Gigante, as a judge for ''Su Majestad La Voz'', an

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-style voice competition for young opera singers. The

staged Daniel Catán’s '' Florencia en el Amazonas'' June 22–26, 2016 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Reviewing the performance,

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of ''The New York Observer'' wrote: " nthe current offering of the resurrected New York City Opera ... every page of the score sails orgasmically over the top, as sinfully rich as molten caramel sauce... The reconstituted New York City Opera should be bursting with pride at the high level of quality extending across every aspect of this presentation... Among as strong a cast of vocalists as I’ve heard at NYCO in 20 years or more, the standout appropriately was Elizabeth Caballero as Florencia." Similarly, ''The Wall Street Journal'' opined that "Ms. Caballero is a find."

Awards and honors

*2001 National Grand Finalist for The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (MONCA) *2002 Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation - 2nd Place Winner *2003 Gerda Lissner Foundation - Award Winner *2007 Diva Award - New York City Opera *2010 Named one of Miami's Most Influential People by the

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Magazine. *2011 Inducted into the Hall of Fame of

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. *2013 Awarded Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Miami

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Repertoire

*Micaela (''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the O ...

'') *Adina (''

L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (; ''The Elixir of Love'') is a (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's (1831). ...

'') *Marguerite (''

Faust Faust ( , ) is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a ...

'') *Mimi and Musetta (''

La bohème ''La bohème'' ( , ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '':wikt:quadro, quadri'', ''wikt:tableau, tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto b ...

'') *Nedda (''

Pagliacci ''Pagliacci'' (; literal translation, 'Clowns') is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who mu ...

'') *Fiordiligi (''

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'') *Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; full title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legen ...

'') *Susanna and Contessa Almaviva (''

Le nozze di Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna ...

'') *Magda (''

La rondine ''La rondine'' (''The Swallow'') is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Thé� ...

'') *Violetta ('' La traviata'') *Liu (''

Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...

'') *Alice (''

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'') *Desdemona (''

Otello ''Otello'' () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's play ''Othello''. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the La Scala, Teatro alla Scala, M ...

'') *Cio Cio San (''

Madama Butterfly ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story " Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Lu ...

'') *Florencia Grimaldi ('' Florencia en el Amazonas'') *Luisa (''

Luisa Miller ''Luisa Miller'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play '' Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by the German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi's initial idea f ...

'') *Amelia ('' Ballo in maschera'') *Tosca (''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

'')

References

*Budmen, Lawrence
Caballero delights audience in wide-ranging recital
''South Florida Classical Review'', 13, June 2010 *Gereben, Janos

'' Oakland Post'', 19 August 2001. Accessed via subscription 28 August 2009 *Kosman, Joshua
Merola's Stunning Soprano: Powerful Caballero Born to be a Diva
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'', 21 August 2001. Accessed 21 July 2009. *Midgette, Anne
A New Spark for a Don Beyond Compare
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'', 1 April 2006. Accessed 7 August 2009. *''

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Breaking News
18 April 2007. Accessed 21 July 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caballero, Elizabeth 1974 births Living people American entertainers of Cuban descent Cuban emigrants to the United States Cuban sopranos American operatic sopranos Musicians from Havana Singers from Miami Winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 21st-century Cuban women opera singers 21st-century American women opera singers University of Miami Frost School of Music alumni