“A velvety, dark-hued soprano that has a limpid seductiveness appropriate to this music!” noted of Mexican-American soprano, Danielle Talamantes. The 2024-25 season includes Haydn’s Creation with the New Dominion Chorale, a duo recital with husband, bass-baritone Kerry Wilkerson with Opera Roanoke, Close Encounters with Music, and the Sitka Music Festival, a featured recital with Lyric Fest of Philadelphia, and the Brahms Requiem at the National Presbyterian Church.
Recent season performances include a five-city Alaska recital tour (Sitka Music Festival and Juneau Jazz & Classics), with the Pensacola Symphony, an Opera Gala with the Meridian Symphony, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with the Washington Master Chorale, a recital at The American Church in Paris, France Verdi’s Requiem and Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileras No 5 with Pensacola Symphony and the NC Master Chorale, Britten’s War Requiem with Opera Roanoke, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Choral Arts of Washington, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the National Philharmonic, a world premier with Washington National Opera’s production of Written in Stone, a turn as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème with Jacksonville Symphony and the Northern Lights Festival, and three world premiers: Mosaic for Earth by composer Dwight Bigler at her Alma Mater, Virginia Tech, the rhapsody written especially for Talamantes based on T.S. Eliot’s iconic poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock with the National Philharmonic, and the stunning oratorio Kohelet first with the Washington DC Master Chorale and then the Santa Clara Master Chorale; the latter two works by acclaimed composer Henry Dehlinger. Other recent performances include Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen and Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco with The Metropolitan Opera, Beatrice in Catán’s Il postino with VA Opera, Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio with Princeton Festival; Violetta in La traviata with Hawaii Opera Theater and Finger Lakes Opera, the title role of Susannah with Opera Roanoke; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Cedar Rapids Opera Theater; and a debut at Spoleto Festival USA as Sergente in Cavalli’s Veremonda.
Professional recordings include At That Hour: Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger on the Avie Record Label; Canciones españolas and Heaven and Earth: A Duke Ellington Songbook on the MSR Classics label.