• San Miguel
    MetOpera
    Trust!!

The San Miguel MetOpera Trust

sponsors the only Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition site in Mexico.

In this fifth anniversary year of the Mexico competition, 2023, the Trust takes pride in:

2 SEMIFINALISTS

THE TWO WINNERS WHO HAVE REACHED THE SEMI-FINAL ROUND OF THE COMPETITION, AND PERFORMED ON THE STAGE OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE (SOPRANOS DENIS VELEZ , 2019 & JENNIFER MARIEL, 2020).

156 TALENTED

YOUNG MEXICAN SINGERS WHO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE   HEARD BY JUDGES CERTIFIED BY THE METROPOLITAN  OPERA  HERE IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE.

27 SINGERS

THE 27 SINGERS NAMED WINNERS WHO WE HAVE SENT ON TO A REGIONAL ROUND OF THE COMPETITION IN THE UNITED STATES.

10 SINGERS

THE 10 SINGERS WHO HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED WITH REGIONAL PRIZE AWARDS IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE FINALIST DENIS VELEZ

SOPRANO DENIS VELEZ WHO REACHED THE FINAL ROUND OF THE COMPETITION, SANG WITH THE METOPERA ORCHESTRA & BECAME THE FIRST MEXICAN SINGER EVER NAMED A GRAND NATIONAL FINALS WINNER IN 2020.

5 YOUNG SINGERS

THE FIVE SINGERS WE HAVE PLACED IN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAMS WITH DISTINGUISHED UNITED STATES OPERA COMPANIES,--  INCLUDING THE METROPOLITAN OPERA (Yunuet Laguna), CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA (Denis Velez, Alejandro Luevanos), MINNESOTA OPERA (Efrain Corralejo)  AND SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC/RICE UNIVERSITY (Jimena Montserrat).

SOPRANO YUNUET LAGUNA

YUNUET LAGUNA, 2018 COMPETITION WINNER, GRADUATE OF THE METOPERA’S LINDEMANN YOUNG ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, WHO MADE HER SOLO DEBUT ON THE METOPERA STAGE, MARCH 2022.

Congratulations to all of them! And our thanks to the generous sponsors who make their successes possible!  These singers are the finest ambassadors Mexico could send out into the world.