Cuban American singer, Isabella Lamadriz is a classically trained soprano who has appeared in operatic and concert venues across the US and Europe. She founded the Cuban Art Song Project through her collaboration with latin music maestro, Pablo Zinger. After receiving her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Voice Performance from the Boston Conservatory, Isabella moved to New York City and embarked on a career as a dramatic coloratura soprano, singing some of the most vocally demanding roles, such as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Konstanze in Abduction from the Seraglio. As a concert soloist, she has performed in venues as varied as the 92nd Street Y in New York and the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit. She also plays upright and electric bass in rock bands and with a Latin Big Band in New York City.

 

This past summer, Ms. Lamadriz flew to Detroit to appear at the Cranbrook Art Gallery for the opening of their summer series centering Cuban artists and recorded an album of Cuban songs for release in 2025. In the fall of 2024 she performed her role debut of Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with New York Opera Forum.

 

She has performed multiple times with the Jeunesse Musicales International Festival in Grožnjan, Croatia, most recently in 2023 as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen and in 2019, as Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 2020, she was awarded first prize in the opera division of the Lav Mirski International Voice Competition in Osijek, Croatia.