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American soprano Maria Valdes has been praised by the New York Times as a “first-rate singing actress and a perfectly charming Gilda.” In the 2024–2025 season, Ms. Valdes made her debut with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and returned to the Greensboro Symphony to perform Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Requiem. A frequent artist with Hawaii Opera Theatre, she made her STUDIO101 debut in I’ll Be Seeing You, reprised the role of Micaëla in Carmen, and helped create the roles of Hana Hooper Ha’alilio and Himiko Hamilton in workshops of The Sheltering Tree and Tea. Other highlights included a role and company debut with Opera Wilmington as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, a recital tour in San Francisco and Hawaii with OperAloha, and returns to the Atlanta Master Chorale as the soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass and Berkshire Lyric in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten. In the upcoming season, she will perform Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Valdosta Symphony and Bellingham Festival of Music. Valdes returns to Symphony San Jose for Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Spanish River Concerts for “The Encore! Project.” On the opera stage she returns to The Metropolitan Opera to cover Frida Image #1 in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego.

​Her 2023-2024 season was filled with returns to major orchestras and opera houses. On the symphonic stage, Ms. Valdes joined the Greensboro Symphony to sing Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and returned to the Phoenix Symphony for Strauss’s Four Last Songs. In recital, she was featured with Il Cenacolo Italian Club, the Cathedral of St. Paul, the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Spanish River Concerts, and OperaAloha. Additionally, Ms. Valdes returned to Houston Grand Opera to cover Isabel Leonard in the title role of The Sound of Music.

​In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Valdes made her Metropolitan Opera debut, covering Papagena in The Magic Flute, returned to Atlanta Opera as Léontine in The Anonymous Lover, and appeared with Hawaii Opera Theatre as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. On the concert stage, she made her Symphony San Jose debut singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Carmina Burana, joined the Madison Chamber Music Festival in recital with tenor John Riesen, and performed in recital with renowned classical guitarist Pepe Romero at The Hamptons Festival of Music.
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Timestamps:
00:00 | Introductions
01:19 | Listening to Sins of the Father
08:56 | Listening to Warriors in Valour
16:40 | Listening to Ceadeus' Theme (Phase 2)
22:46 | Listening to Feel
28:00 | Listening to Last Surprise
34:58 | Listening to Beneath the Mask
39:17 | Listening to The Divine Damsel of Devastation
47:15 | Listening to Cara Mia Addio
57:05 | Listening to Halo Main Theme
1:04:45 | Listening to Ständchen
1:10:31 | Listening to Unsung War
1:18:42 | Listening to Aline
1:31:34 | Listening to Lumiere
1:40:40 | Outro