MEXICO DISTRICT LAFFONT COMPETITION 2023 WINNERS

JENIFFER MARIEL

District Winner

RAFAEL ROJAS

District Winner

RAUL MORALES

District Winner

OLYMAR SANDOVAL

District Winner

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD WINNERS

CARLOS REYNOSO

Encouragement Award Winner

PILAR ROMERO

Encouragement Award Winner

ALEJANDRO YEPEZ

Encouragement Award Winner

DIANA ROJAS

Encouragement Award Winner

DANIEL SALINAS

Encouragement Award Winner

San Miguel MetOpera Trust

Changing lives and enlarging the footprint of Mexico on the world map

MORE THAN 200 TALENTED

Young Mexican Singers who have had the opportunity to be heard by judges certified by the Metropolitan Opera here in San Miguel de Allende

31 SINGERS

The 27 singers named winners who we have sent on to a regional round of the competition in the United States.

10 SINGERS

The 10 singers who have been recognized with regional prize awards in the United States

2 SEMIFINALISTS

The two winners who have reached the semi-final round of the competition, and performed on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House (sopranos Denis Velez, 2019 & Jennifer Mariel, 2020)

THE FINALIST DENIS VELEZ

Soprano Denis Velez who reached the final round, of the competition sang with the MetOpera orchestra, and became the first Mexican singer to ever be named a grand national finals winner in 2020

5 YOUNG SINGERS

The five singers we have placed in young artist programs with distinguished United Stages Opera companies, — Including the Metropolitan Opera (Yunuet Laguna), Chicago Lyric Opera (Denis Velez, Alejandro Luevanos), Minnesota Opera (Efrain Corralejo) and Shepherd School of Music/Rice University (Jimena Montserrat).

SOPRANO YUNUET LAGUNA

Yunuet Laguna, 2018 competition winner, graduate of the MetOpera’s Lindemann Young Artist development Program, who made her solo debut on the MetOpera stage, March 2022

Congratulations to all of them! And our thanks to the generous sponsors who make their successes possible! These singers are the finest ambassadors Mexico could send out into the world.