The American soprano Ailyn Pérez will be making her long-overdue Met debut as Micaëla in Carmen, on February 26. The Chicago-born daughter of first-generation immigrants from Mexico, Pérez is one of few American Hispanic women to sing major roles on the Met stage, and she has won both the 15th annual Plácido Domingo Award and the 2012 Richard Tucker Award, becoming the only Hispanic recipient i…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on February 25, 2015