Biography

Dallas-born mezzo-soprano Josefina Maldonado has been critically acclaimed by The Texas Classical Review and Theater Jones as “vocally superb” with a “remarkably rich timbre.” Maldonado was a young artist with The Dallas Opera Outreach Program in multiple roles in 2019. That year she also made her European debut as a principal artist in the modern-day premieres of two 17^th-century serenatas by Johannes Schmelzer, Le veglie ossequiose and Die sieben Alter stimmen zusammen, for the Olomouc’s Baroque Festival in the Czech Republic.

In May 2022, she made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the Cincinnati May Festival in John Adams’s El Niño, conducted by the composer, followed by her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in the same role in November 2022. She was reengaged by the Cleveland Orchestra to sing Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater in March 2024, conducted by Dalia Stasevska.
She made her debut in May 2025 with the San Antonio Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Jeffrey Kahane and has been invited back in 2026 for Bach’s B Minor Mass. This is her Houston Symphony debut.

Maldonado holds a degree from the University of North Texas where she was a frequently featured soloist with the UNT Symphony Orchestra and UNT Opera.