Hailed as a “robust soprano with pinpoint dynamic control” (San Francisco Chronicle), Mexican- American soprano Celeste Morales is a recent winner of the Dietrich Memorial Award at the Opera Index Vocal Competition and recently competed at the prestigious Tenor Vinas Competition in Barcelona, Spain. Last year, she performed on the Winspear Opera House stage at the Dallas Opera Competition and won Second Place in the Soprano Art Song Category at the George Shirley Competition. She recently made her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in “Tchaikovsky’s Spectacular” under the baton of George Stelluto. This year, she makes her debut with Opera Ithaca in Britten’s Turn of The Screw as Mrs. Grose and reprises the role of La Malinche by composer Nathan Felix at the inaugural Opera Austin Festival. As an avid recitalist and art song curator, she recently completed her second summer as a Vocal Fellow with the Ravinia Steans Music Institute.

In the summer of 2022, she completed her second summer at the historic Merola Opera Program. She performed as Rosalba in Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas for their Schwabacher Scenes Concert featuring prominent works by Latin American and Spanish composers. She appeared as a soloist in A Celebration of American Song and performed scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff as Alice and Suzel in Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz on the San Francisco Opera-War Memorial Stage. Later that season, she performed the Brahms Requiem with the Florilegium Chamber Choir under the baton of James Knox Sutterfield as their Soprano Soloist. She participated in Opera in Reach’s fundraising concert Art for Peace which helped raise funds for Ukraine and was featured in a live stream performance documentary called Latinidad: la gentle y la musica with the non-profit organization- Hearing In Color.  An avid humanitarian for the arts and the community, she has helped raise funds for Be an Arts Hero, Feeding America, City Lyric Opera, San Antonio Food Bank, The Omni Arts Foundation, and Coalition for the Homeless, Inc.