biography

Camille Robles is a Puerto Rican mezzo-soprano and an emerging young artist. She was recently selected to be part of the Ryan Opera Center Ensemble 2025/26 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, starting in May 2025. In November 2024, she was a Puerto Rico District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, where she was awarded the Culturarte Prize, the Propuesta Clásica Foundation Prize, and the Audience Favorite Prize sponsored by Teatro de la Ópera de Puerto Rico.

Since September 2024, she has been a Jan Miller Studio Artist at Pensacola Opera in Florida. During this season, Camille covered the role of Cherubino in their production of Le nozze di Figaro and performed the role of the Dolphin in the world premiere of the opera Mato, the Bear Who Couldn't Fish. In Pensacola, she has participated in numerous concerts, and in December 2024, she was a soloist in Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) with the Pensacola Choral Society under the direction of Peter Steenblik.

Camille earned a Master of Music degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in May 2024. There, she studied under the guidance of Puerto Rican soprano Ana María Martínez. While studying at Rice, she had the opportunity to perform various roles, namely Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, performed in Russian under the baton of Stephanie Rhodes-Russell and the stage direction of Paul Curran. Other roles performed include Mrs. Olsen in Street Scene, Nutrice in L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas. She also covered the role of Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, performed the role of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro in their scenes concert, and sang as Carmen in the Carmen quintet at the Shepherd School of Music Holiday concert in 2022. At Rice she had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with Joshua Winograde and Isabel Leonard.

In February 2024, she was a New Orleans District Winner in the Laffont Competition. She advanced to the regional level, where she was awarded the Gulf Coast Region Encouragement Award. She won first place in the Camille Coloratura Awards, named in honor of coloratura soprano Camille Julig Herman, and held in Towson, Maryland, in October 2024. She received third place in FGO’s biennial competition, the Young Patronesses of the Opera, in Miami, Florida, in February 2024. She also participated in the National Opera Association competition held in Tempe, Arizona, where she was awarded the Carolyn Bailey Argento Fellowship in January 2024.

In 2022, she received an Encouragement Award from the Puerto Rico District and, upon completing her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the José Rabelo Prize and the María Zeno Annexy Prize awarded by Pro Arte Musical in Puerto Rico. In 2021, she received an honorable mention in the Zarzuela, Voz y ¡Olé! competition, held online. In 2020, she was the winner of the Daniel Santos Scholarship and was selected to participate in Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists’ Vocal Academy in May 2020. In 2019, at twenty years old, she became a Puerto Rico District in the Laffont Competition for the first time.

In the summer of 2023, she was invited to the Aspen Music Festival to cover the role of Idamante in Idomeneo and perform in the AMFS Gala Concert. In 2024, she was invited again for the 75th anniversary edition of the festival, performing the role of Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel and covering the role of the Gingerbread Witch. During her time in Aspen, she also had the opportunity to perform scenes from operas such as Carmen, Werther, La favorita, Die Walküre, among others.

In the summer of 2022, Camille participated in the world premiere of the Puerto Rican opera ¿Y los pasteles? Ópera jíbara en dos actos, composed by Johanny Navarro, conducted by Yabetza Vivas, and staged by Jeanne D’Arc Casas. The opera premiered at the Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce, marking Camille's debut as a soloist with the Puerto Rico Opera Theater.

Camille received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 2022. There, she performed the lead role of Madame Flora (Baba) in The Medium in 2021 and studied the role of Beppe in the opera L’amico Fritz in 2020 with the Puerto Rico Conservatory Opera Workshop.

Her concert work includes numerous recitals in both academic and professional settings in Puerto Rico and the United States. In August 2024, she had her Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra debut. She performed under the baton of conductor Maximiano Valdés in their "Jóvenes Intérpretes" concert at the Pablo Casals Symphony Hall in the Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce. In addition to her achievements in opera, Camille is also very passionate about Puerto Rican art song and zarzuela. In 2020, she participated in the zarzuela concert "España en el alma," organized by the Propuesta Clásica Foundation and held at the historic Teatro Tapia y Rivera in San Juan. Her first time singing with an orchestra was in 2018 at the Pablo Casals Symphony Hall, performing the alto solo part in W. A. Mozart’s Requiem in D minor (K. 626) with the Puerto Rico Youth Symphony Orchestra and the University of Puerto Rico Choir from the Carolina campus.

Her passion for lyrical singing began at her alma mater, the University of Puerto Rico High School, where she began singing in the school choir and was encouraged by her teachers to keep advancing in her vocal studies. Camille is the first singer and musician in her family.