Verónica Villarroel

She won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1989, and, from 1992 until her effective retirement from the stage in 2014, sang leading roles throughout Chile, as well as in New York and across the world.

[3] Villarroel subsequently won a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York,[4] where she studied singing with Ellen Faull.

[1] She won the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions in 1989,[6] and made her debut on the Met's stage in December 1991, again in La Bohème, this time playing Mimì.

On that occasion, she performed the aria "Un bel dì, vedremo" from Madama Butterfly and "Canción con todos [es]".

[7] In 2011 she founded her singing academy in Santiago, and in June 2016 she set up the Verónica Villarroel Foundation, which seeks to support young people in their musical careers.