Cecilia Duarte
Soloist in the Grammy-Winning album Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works, Cecilia specializes in early and contemporary music. Opera role premieres include Renata in the Mariachi Opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, (HGO, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Diego Opera, El Paso Opera, NYC Opera, Minnesota Opera, San Antonio Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Amarillo Opera, Europe and South America); as well as Renata in El Milagro del Recuerdo, (HGO, Arizona Opera); Harriet/First Responder in After the Storm (HGO); Alicia in Some Light Emerges (HGO); and Alma in the new opera web series Star Cross’d, with Houston Grand Opera. Other roles include Melissa in Caccini’s Alcina (BEMF); Linda Morales in Laura Kaminski’s Hometown to the World, Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires, Loma Williams in Cold Sassy Tree, and Sarelda in The Inspector. Early music experience includes Ars Lyrica Houston, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific Music Works, The Newberry Consort, The Boston Early Music Festival, Mercury Houston, Seraphic Fire, the Bach Collegium San Diego, Tafelmusik, and the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble with which which she performs early and contemporary music.