Graciela Araya (born 16 May 1962) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano of Chilean birth who has had a prolific international opera career since the early 1980s.
Born in Concepción, Chile, Araya was a voice student of Marta Duran in Santiago and Tomas Demolitsas in São Paulo.
[1] She made her first opera appearance the following year as Enrichetta di Francia in I puritani at the Municipal Theater of Santiago with Cristina Deutekom as Elvira and Carlo Felice Cillario conducting.
She made her European debut with the company that year as Gedankenstimme in the world premiere of Siegfried Matthus's Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke under the direction of Maximilian Schell.
She then sang for three years with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein before joining the roster of principal artists at the Vienna State Opera where she was committed for 12 seasons.