Josefina Maldonado

Dallas-born mezzo-soprano, Josefina Maldonado, has been critically acclaimed by The Texas Classical Review and Theater Jones as ‘vocally superb’ with a ‘remarkably rich timbre’. Ms. Maldonado was a young artist with The Dallas Opera Outreach Program in multiple roles in 2019. That year she also made her European debut as a principal artist in the modern-day premieres of two 17th century serenatas by Johannes Schmelzer: Le veglie ossequiose and Die sieben Alter stimmen zusammen, for the Olomouc’s Baroque Festival in the Czech Republic.

In May 2002 she made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the Cincinnati May Festival in John Adams’ El Niño, conducted by the composer, followed by her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in the same role in November 2022. She was reengaged by the Cleveland Orchestra to sing Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater March 21-23, 2024 conducted by Dalia Stasevska.

Ms. Maldonado holds a B.M. from the University of North Texas where she was a frequently featured soloist with the UNT Symphony Orchestra. Her roles with UNT Opera included Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte, Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Siébel in Faust and Mother Marie in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmélites.