A rising star of the international opera world soprano Eglise Gutiérrez sang the title role of La sonnambula at Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York in February of 2008, made her Seattle Opera debut as Elvira in I puritani, returned to Detroit as La sonnambula , and made her debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City as Lucia di Lammermoor.

The Cuban-American soprano will make her London debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden to open the 2009-2010 season as Linda di Chammonix, and her Spanish debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Elvira in I puritani opposite Juan Diego Florez.  She then returns to Covent Garden as Gilda in Rigoletto and La Fée in Cendrillon, debuts the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari as Elvira in I puritani, returns to Seattle as Violetta and Juliette in Romeo et Juliette, and makes her Miami Opera debut as Violetta in La traviata, her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut as Gilda with James Conlon at the Ravinnia Festival, debuts in Hamburg and Vancouver as Gilda in Rigoletto, and Montreal as Lucia di Lammermoor.

The 2006-2007 season brought Miss Gutierrez to the Teatro Verdi di Trieste as both Gilda in Rigoletto and Amina in La somnambula, to the Utah Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Detroit as Liu in Turandot with the Michigan Opera Theater, and to Finland where she had a sensational success in the title role in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Miss Gutierrez closed the season in Carmina Burana at the Aspen Music Festival.

Miss Gutierrez made many important debuts in the 2005-2006 season. She was heard at the Wexford Festival in the title role of Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan, followed by her debut in Turandot as Liu at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste under the baton of Daniel Oren, and was Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome alongside Renato Bruson and Ramon Vargas. Miss Gutierrez returned to the stage of Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York in the title role of Lakme, on which the New York Times reported: “I have no idea where Eglise Gutiérrez goes from here, but I cannot imagine a voice more suited to a part or a part to a voice. Ms. Gutiérrez sang the title role with pure intonation and a luxurious cushion of sound. Experiencing such softness (not to be confused with faintness) was a little like feeling high-quality cashmere. The "Bell Song" was elegant, with every hurdle gracefully cleared: Sunday's audience went wild.” She closed the season with her debut at the Sante Fe Opera as the Fairy Godmother in Massenet’s Cendrillon.

In the 2004-2005 season Miss Gutierrez scored a triumph the title role of a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, made her début with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as Gilda in Rigoletto under the baton of Daniel Oren, after débuting this same role with the Connecticut Grand Opera, and performing operatic galas with the Sacramento Symphony and the Johnstown Symphony, followed by the title role in Lakmé at Sarasota Opera. Also in the season Miss Gutierrez made her Opera Orchestra of New York début in the role of Philine in Thomas’ Mignon at Carnegie Hall, followed by her first solo recital début on the main stage of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. She ended the season as soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Carnegie Hall.

A three-time recipient of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Grant and grant recipient of the Singers Development Foundation, Eglise Gutierrez has been busy collecting top prizes including First Prize in the August 2004 International Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki, the West Palm Beach Opera Competition, the New Jersey State Opera Competition, and the Connecticut Opera Competition. Miss Gutierrez’s long list of awards and honors also includes Winner of the Montserrat Caballé International Opera Competition, First Place in the Marian Anderson Opera Competition and Second Place in the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Opera Competition in 2002. She won First Place in the Giargirai Bel Canto Opera Competition, Second Place in the Orlando Opera and J. Parkinson Italia Opera Competitions in 2001 and received First Prize in the Sun Coast Opera Competition in 2000.

Miss Gutierrez made her Carnegie Hall début as soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and John Rutter’s Requiem under the baton of John Rutter in May 2004, after completing her final year at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. During her studies there, she performed several leading roles, among them the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Amina in Bellini’s La sonnambula, Nanetta in Falstaff, and Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Additional roles in her repertoire include Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, and the title roles in Roig’s Cecilia Valdes and Vives’ Doña Francisquita.

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