Richard Tucker and Plácido Domingo Award-winner Ailyn Pérez makes her hotly anticipated Houston Grand Opera debut tonight, in what also marks her role debut as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello. Under the baton of Patrick Summers, Houston’s artistic and music director, she stars opposite Simon O’Neill as Otello and Marco Vratogna as Iago in the company’s staging of John Cox’s hit production of the Shakespearean tragedy, which runs through November 7. The first exclusive photos of Pérez as Desdemona are now available in a photo album on Pérez’s official Facebook page.