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Acclaimed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "powerful diva in the making" Cuban-American soprano, ELIZABETH CABALLERO is becoming widely recognized for her fearless portrayals of the lyric soprano repertoire. She has been praised by Steven Smith of The New York Times for providing: "the evening's most show-stopping performance offering a thrilling balance of pearly tone, exacting technique and brazen physicality.

Highlights of Miss. Caballero 2008-2009 season include her debuts with the Seattle Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and the Nashville Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. She also returns to the Florida Grand Opera as Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Other future engagements include her house debut in the Metropolitan Opera as Frasquita in their new production of Carmen starting Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. She is also scheduled to return to Florida Grand Opera, New York City Opera, and Seattle Opera and a debut with Washington National Opera to name a few.

Last season, Ms. Caballero returned to the New York City Opera, where she was heard as Nedda in a new production of I Pagliacci and reprised her popular Musetta in La boheme. She made her anticipated returned to the Florida Grand Opera as Mimi in La boheme to great critcal acclaim. Also in the 2007-2008 season were debuts at Carnegie Hall as Lisa in La sonnambua with the Opera Orchestra of New York, at the San Antonio Opera as Adina in the Garry Marshall production of L'elisier d'amore, and at Opera New Jersey as Violetta in La traviata. Miss Caballero closed the season with her international debut as Magda in La rondine at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste.

Miss Caballero made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2006 as Musetta in La boheme for the Met in the Park series. She has appeared as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the New York City Opera, Florentine Opera, and Mobile Opera, as Micaela in Carmen with the Florida Grand Opera and Mobile Opera, as Mimi in La boheme with Palm Beach Opera, and the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, and as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte with the Merola Opera Program and Western Opera Theater.

In addition to being a National Grand Finalist in the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Miss Caballero has won numerous awards, including the Richard Gold Debut Artist Award for her performance as Donna Elvira at the New York City Opera. A two-time winner of a Gerda Lissner Foundationn Award, she has been awarded prizes from the George London Foundation, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, Opera Index, Inc., and was the recipient of the coveted annual Diva Award from the New York City Opera in 2007.