Yvonne Gonzalez Redman

Yvonne Gonzales Redman has enjoyed an 18-year career as a main stage soprano at the Metropolitan Opera including nearly 200 onstage performances as a principal soloist, including 26 live radio and television broadcasts that are still regularly broadcast over SiriusXM radio. Highlights include Zerlina in Don Giovanni (James Levine, conductor); Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore (with Luciano Pavarotti for his 30th anniversary gala); Jouvenot in Adrianna Lecouvreur (in Mirella Freni’s final performances of this work); and in Parsifal with Placido Domingo, to name only a few highlights of her career. She is a grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition and the Eleanor McCollum Houston Grand Opera competition.

Ms. Redman has performed at the Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Wolf Trap, Opera Illinois, and the Houston Grand Opera, where she sang the world premiere of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazones. She was featured in the role of Mimì in La Bohème at the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

She has shared the stage with some of the greatest operatic artists, including Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Nathan Gunn, Bryn Terfel, Teresa Stratas, Renee Fleming, Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, Carol Vaness, Dawn Upshaw, Denise Graves, Paul Groves, Ben Heppner, Jerry Hadley, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rene Pape, and Thomas Hampson. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include James Levine, James Conlon, Sir Charles Mackerras, Leonard Slatkin, Richard Bonynge, Jan McDaniel, and Murry Sidlin.

Ms. Redman also participates in voice and hearing research and is a 2022 Recipient of the UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts Excellence in Research award.