Corrales, Caroline

Soprano
(St. Louis, Missouri)

Praised for her "robust and luxuriant tone” (San Francisco Chronicle), second-year Adler Fellow soprano Caroline Corrales is an operatic star on the rise. Last year with San Francisco Opera, she performed the role of Moira in Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Mimì in Bohème Out of the Box and covered the First Lady in The Magic Flute. Upcoming engagements include Mimì in La Bohème with Opera Naples.

A 2023 participant in the Merola Opera Program, she performed the role of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and in scenes from Simon Boccanegra (Amelia) and Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford). In December, she was a featured singer in the Holiday Pops Concert Series with The Boston Pops.

Corrales is a former apprentice singer of The Santa Fe Opera, where she was featured in scenes from Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde) and Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira). As a former young artist of the Boston University Opera Institute, her roles included Ma Zegner in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, and scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro (Countess) and Rusalka.

A three-time District winner and two-time Region Encouragement Award winner of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Corrales is also a Career Grant winner of the Pasadena Vocal Competition, a finalist in the McCammon Voice Competition, Second-Prize winner in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and a Grand Finalist in the Concurso Internacional de Canto Tenor Vinas. Corrales holds a Master of Music degree from Boston University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Webster University.