Hailed by Windy City Times as having  “a melodic soprano whose voice echoes through a packed theater”, Chicago based Mexican-American Soprano, Ana Miranda-Gonzalez has a deep love for collaboration and new works. She has frequently worked with living composers on song and opera premieres, including her husband, composer Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez.

With that passion for new music, she most recently premiered Dew, an extended technique piece written for voice and string quartet by JingXian Chen at the Wintergreen Music Festival in Wintergreen, Virginia. Not long before that at Rainbow Railroad’s annual gala, she premiered a piece for guitar and two voices titled Two Months, Two Years by Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez about a story of two LGBTQ immigrtants who fell in love during their escape to find safety from their country.

In 2026, she will premiere the role of Tina in Daron Hagen’s HIDE Operafilm, a horror-esque opera. This season, Ana joined Chicago’s Valkyrie Ensemble as The Novice in Suor Angelica and Soprano Soloist in Piozzi’s Missa Sanctae Heracleae.  She will also be joining Make a Scene for their scenes recital where she will be performing parts from roles such as Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), and Nanetta (Falstaff).

Other notable highlights include role of Aldimiro (L’Adimiro), Young Juana (With Blood, With Ink), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera), and Miss Pinkerton (The Old Maid and the Thief). Ana also premiered the role of Sam in a new opera based on a Three Stooges episode, The Groomless Bride by Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez.

Having trained as a mezzo-soprano, other roles include La Filosofia and Orontea in an abridged version of Cesti’s L’Orontea and Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with Chicago’s Haymarket Opera summer program under the direction of Drew Minter. In her undergraduate degree, she understudied Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, performed Satirino in Cavalli’s La Calisto, and Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina.

As a concert musician, Ana has performed in many prestigious programs, including the American Bach Soloists Academy as a Soprano Soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass, Wintergreen Music Festival as a Soloist in Mariana Martines’s Dixit Dominus, and Bach in the City (successor to Bach Week Festival) as a chorus member and soloist in their inaugural concert, Bach and the Venetians.