Ailyn Pérez, born and bred in Chicago, returns to her hometown’s famous Ravinia Festival for two performances (Aug 14 & 16) as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni – a role that the Dallas Morning News has said shows her to be “a singer of considerable nuance.” LA Opera Music Director James Conlon leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the run, which also features baritone Christopher Maltman in the title role, baritone David Bizić as Leporello, soprano Tamara Wilson as Donna Anna and tenor Saimir Pirgu as Don Ottavio. The Chicago Tribune praised Pérez’s 2012 appearance at Ravinia, as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, as “show-stopping…all floating pianissimos and diminuendos and delicate pathos, which roused the sold-out crowd to a long, well-deserved ovation.”
