Laura Santamaria

Soprano | West Palm Beach, Florida | Age 25 | First Year 

Laura Santamaria is a Colombian American soprano from West Palm Beach, Florida, now in her first year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2026-27 season, she will make her Company debut as Papagena in the holiday presentation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute before covering roles in Manon and Parsifal later in the season. Recent operatic engagements include Lucy in Fellow Travelers with the Glimmerglass Festival, Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Norina (cover) in Don Pasquale with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Boston Conservatory. On the concert stage, she will appear as the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and has performed Brahms’s German Requiem with the Evansville Philharmonic, Florence Price’s Songs of Hope with the Back Bay Chorale, and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 at the Boston Symphony Hall. In 2025, she received the Richard Gaddes Career Award from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, was named a semifinalist in Tier II of the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and received the Award for Best Performance of a Contemporary Work at the Calliope's Call Young Singer Competition. She is an alumna of the Glimmerglass Festival’s Resident Artist Program, Boston Lyric Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, the Ravinia Steans Institute, Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Seagle Festival Emerging Artist Program, and Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy. She holds degrees in voice and opera performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.