CLAUDIA CHAPA

MEXICO

MEZZO-SOPRANO

About:

Claudia Chapa returns to HGO after making her company debut as Josefina in the 2019 world premiere of El Milagro del Recuerdo/The Miracle of Remembering, a role she also performed with Arizona Opera. Other recent engagements include Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro with Opera Delaware; Gertrude in Romeo and Juliet with Opera San Antonio; Filipjevna in Eugene Onegin with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera San Antonio and Winter Opera St. Louis; Ortrud in Lohengrin with Opera Southwest; La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica and Zita in Gianni Schicchi with St. Petersburg Opera; Fenena in Nabucco with West Bay Opera; Azucena in Il trovatore with St. Petersburg Opera Company, Winter Opera St. Louis, and Opera in Williamsburg; Zita in both Gianni Schicchi and Buoso’s Ghost with Opera Delaware and Baltimore Concert Opera; Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro with Charlottesville Opera; Ulrica in A Masked Ball, Madame Flora in The Medium, and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Opera in the Heights; Fairy Godmother in Alma Deutscher's Cinderella with Opera San José; Mary in The Flying Dutchman and Dryade in Ariadne Auf Naxos with Austin Opera; Berta in The Barber of Seville with San Antonio Opera; Bloody Mary in South Pacific with Gulf Coast Symphony; Hedwige in William Tell with Opera Southwest; Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Winter Opera St. Louis and Opera in the Heights; Marthe in Faust with Indianapolis Opera; and Third Lady in The Magic Flute with the Glimmerglass Festival. She is an alumna of the International Vocal Arts Institute, Des Moines Metro Opera’s Apprentice Artist Program, and the Glimmerglass Festival.