Praised by Opera News as a "standout", Gina Perregrino earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Manhattan School of Music, before participating for two seasons in Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program. She also trained as an Apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera, was a Regional Finalist and an Encouragement Award Winner from the Laffont Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a recipient of the Richard Gaddes Career Grant from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and a winner of The Opera Foundation. This season, Ms. Perregrino joins the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra for Mozart's Requiem, appears as a soloist with the Serafin Chamber Music Festival, performs with American Lyric Theater for both their 20th Anniversary Gala and their orchestra workshop of Alex Weiser's Tevye's Daughters, and makes her role debut as Mélisande in Opera Baltimore’s production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Ms. Perregrino debuted at The Metropolitan Opera as The Voice of the Fountain in the new production of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar during the 2024-2025 season. On the concert stage, she appeared with the Santa Fe Symphony for Handel’s Messiah and the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In the spring, she joined Opera Delaware as the Director of Women Pilots for the world premiere of Derrick Wang’s Fearless.
Her engagements during the 2023-2024 season included Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the Greensboro Symphony and Handel’s Messiah with the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2022-2023, she joined she joined Seattle Opera to cover the leading role of Mariam in the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Ms. Perregrino was a member of Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble. Her assignments with the DOB included the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Der Missmut in Der Antikrist, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Ninetta in Les vêpres siciliennes, and covering Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in Carmen.
She has performed multiple seasons with American Lyric Theater, creating the role of Beylke in Alex Weiser's Tevye's Daughters and performing as a featured soloist for the company’s 20th Anniversary Gala, with excerpts from works by alumni composers, including the role of Jackie Kennedy in David Little's JFK.
Described as "vocally protean" (Washington Post), her interpretation of Latin American and Spanish songs have been featured in operatic crossover programs at companies like Santa Fe Opera, and her original compositions in Spanish are slated for both publication and release on the Global Music Partnership record label in 2026.
Notable operatic highlights include creating the role of Edka in the world premiere of Out of Darkness: Two Remain by Jake Heggie with The Atlanta Opera, where she has also been seen as Anna I in Seven Deadly Sins, Jenny Diver in Threepenny Opera, Nica in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Lupe in Frida and covered the title role in Carmen; Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette, Clizia in L’arbore di Diana and covered the role of Lucy Talbot in the world premiere of Dinner at Eight with Minnesota Opera; Paquette in Candide and Pastuchyna in Jenůfa with Santa Fe Opera; the title role in Carmen with Central City Opera; the Blindwoman in the world premiere of Shalimar the Clown with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Hortense in the workshop of Missy Mazzoli's The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia, and Maddalena in Rigoletto with Ópera de Guatemala, in a production that was broadcast on Univisión TeleOnce throughout Guatemala and parts of Central America.
In concert, Ms. Perregrino has been seen with the Cincinnati May Festival as part of their Dream Project, which included Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Vaughan Williams' A Tribute to Music; Oregon Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, Phoenix Symphony for Beethoven’s Mass in C, The Dallas Opera as a soloist for their Hart Institute for Women Conductors, the Toscanini Symphony Orchestra as a soloist for Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and on stage at Lincoln Center where she sang Brahms’ Songs with Viola.
