Married Opera Stars Ailyn Perez & Stephen Costello to Release First Album Together

By: Oct. 17, 2013
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Richard Tucker Award-winners Stephen Costello and Ailyn Pérez - dubbed "America's fastest-rising husband-and-wife opera stars" (Associated Press) - look forward to collaborating on their first album together: a recording of romantic love duets by Verdi, Puccini, Bernstein, and others, to be recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Patrick Summers's leadership in December. The album is slated for release in spring 2014, and it will be the couple's first release as exclusive recording artists for Warner Classics.

Pérez explains: "Given our great love for our art and each other, I'm really looking forward to joining our voices in some of my favorite roles and operatic duets."

Costello adds: "To be on a label for which so many incredible artists have recorded is a huge honor. I am also honored to share this album with two great artists - my wife, Ailyn Pérez, and Maestro Patrick Summers. I am truly humbled!"

Described by Vanity Fair as "a match made in verismo heaven," theirs is a love story that is the stuff of opera itself. The young American soprano and tenor met at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, where an onstage romance in Puccini's most beloved opera kindled the flames of a real-life passion. This season, Pérez and Costello appear in performance together across the globe, headlining in La traviata in London, Berlin, Hamburg, and San Francisco, and giving concerts in New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

They are the only married couple to boast having two prestigious Richard Tucker Awards on the mantelpiece: Costello took home the "Heisman Trophy of opera" in 2009 and Pérez won in 2012, becoming the first Hispanic singer to do so in the award's history. When they performed together at the 2012 Richard Tucker Gala, which was broadcast nationally in the U.S. and is still available for on-demand streaming, the New York Times's Anthony Tommasini admired their "palpable chemistry."



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