Elizabeth de Trejo made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lulu in the 2009-2010 season. Also that season, she debuted the role of Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Tampa and she returned to Carnegie Hall to perform Carmina Burana. Ms. de Trejo will return to Opera Tampa for the role of Violetta in La traviata in 2011. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the 2008-2009 season as a soloist, with John Rutter conducting and returned from the Toledo Opera where she performed the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. Also in the 2008-2009 seaosn Ms. de Trejo sang Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Dayton Opera and Marguerite with Opera Tampa and returned to Carnegie Hall as the soprano soloist in the Rutter Requiem.

In 2007-2008, Ms. de Trejo performed the roles of Violetta in La Traviata in Miami, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Die Freundin in Franz Lehar’s Der Frühling in Milan and recorded live with the Orchestra Verdi in the title role of Mascagni’s Il Si. Recent seasons include performances with Opera Tampa as Juliette in Gounod’s famed opera Romeo et Juliette and the role of Rosina in Anton Coppola’s epic opera, Sacco and Vanzetti; for which an aria was written for her. Other recent performances have been as Gilda in Rigoletto, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Clarice in Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna in Basel, Switzerland, Die Königen die Nacht in Die Zauberflöte für Kinder with the Opernhaus Zürich, the soprano soloist in Bach’s Mass in B minor and the Mozart Requiem.

In addition to her operatic repertoire, Elizabeth is a consummate recitalist and concert performer, having given numerous concerts both in Europe and the United States. She has worked with notable conductors and has appeared as guest soloist with many Orchestras in such works as Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Beethoven's Mass in C, and the Brahms, Fauré and Mozart Requiems, to name a few. She has also received numerous awards from prominent vocal competitions. Some of the competitions that she has won include the Gerda Lissner Opera Competition in New York where she was a second place winner, the MacAllister Opera Competition (Matthias Award), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the Connecticut and Gulf Coast Regions, the Jenny Lind Soprano Competition, the Rosa Ponselle Competition and the Giulio Gari Foundation Opera Competition and the Liederkranz Competition. Ms. de Trejo is also a recent recipient of a career grant from Career Bridges Foundation and the Sergio Franchi Foundation and was a finalist in the Jensen Foundation Competition. Elizabeth can be seen on the recently released EMI Classics DVD of Der Rosenkavalier with Vasselina Kasarova, Nina Stemma, and Alfred Muff under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst and Sven Erich Bechtolf live from Opernhaus Zürich.

Ms. de Trejo attended Loyola University, New Orleans, where she received a Bachelor's of Music in Performance in 1999 and Yale University, receiving her Master of Music in May 2001.  Ms. de Trejo then went to sing in the International Opera Studio with the Opernhaus Zürich from 2003-2004.

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