Liz Caballero is an American soprano of Cuban origin.  Like many successful professional singers she never really planned to be one.  Opera wasn’t part of her childhood experience as a Cuban refugee in Southern Florida.  Like many young people she sang in school and church choirs and often got to take solo roles but she didn’t have a voice lesson until she was at university.  Her break came in 1995 when, on a whim, she entered the Pavarotti International Voice Competition in Miami and made it to the finals in Philadelphia.  Pavarotti encouraged her to develop her raw talent which led to stints in young artists programs in Miami and San Francisco and to her current busy career mainly singing Puccini and Verdi roles in US regional houses.

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