Laura Virella

She performs as principal artist in opera, operetta, zarzuela, song, symphonic repertoire and chamber music.

Early in her career she was nominated alongside a roster of Washington National Opera principal artists and won second place to international operatic star Patricia Racette in the DC Theatre Scene Audience Choice Awards as Best Actress in Opera for her portrayal of Federico Moreno Torroba's Luisa Fernanda with Teatro de la Luna.

[1] Her debut album, Al menos cantos: Songs of Jack Délano, a collaboration with Russian-Mexican pianist Alla Milchtein and American cellist Kate Dillingham, became the first worldwide commercial recording of works by the Ukrainian-born Puerto Rican composer, and on its release week charted number 2 on Billboard in the Traditional Classical category.

[2] She also wrote and recorded the theme song for the award-winning Puerto Rican short film Dream of Vermilion, by cinematographers Heixan Robles, David Farmer and Robert Alexander García Cooper.

[3] She has been an avid performer of contemporary composers, including Laura Kaminsky, Gabriela Lena Frank, Edmund Cionek, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, David Karp, Seth Boustead and Gilbert Galindo.