Raquel González

Praised for her “brilliant lyric soprano," Rachel Blaustein has gained recognition for her riveting stage presence and innate musicality in a variety of repertoire ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. Rachel was one of ten national finalists for the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, winning the Fernand Lamesch National Finalist Award. Additionally, she is a dual German-American citizen in possession of an active EU passport. 

Ms. Blaustein’s exciting 2025-2026 season kicked off at the Spoleto Festival, where she was called in at the eleventh hour to sing an “evocative” Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw for three out of four performances (CultureSouth). Also this season, she makes her role and company debut at Cincinnati Opera as Hodel in their new production of Fiddler on the Roof, a role she the reprises later in the season in a return to Austin Opera. She joins Ravinia Festival as a Vocal Fellow in their prestigious Steans Institute and makes her role and company debut in the title role of Dean Anthony’s production of Viardot’s Cendrillon at Opera Montana. Additionally, she will join Chicago Opera Theater as Mistress Ford (cover) in Salieri’s Falstaff, and make her debut with Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah. 

The 2024-2025 season included her return to Carnegie Hall in Erica Glenn’s Worldwide Requiem, conducted by the composer, her début with Austin Opera as Jocelyn Jordan in The Manchurian Candidate, her début with South Florida Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, and the title role in Rusalka at Pacific Opera Project.   In the previous season, Rachel made her role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto with Opera Delaware and Opera Baltimore. She also joined Opera Omaha for their Opera Outdoors concert, performed as Sarah Kavalier in the workshop of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay with The Metropolitan Opera, presented a recital at Academy Art Museum, and debuted with the Indianapolis Symphony for Handel’s Messiah. In previous seasons, Ms. Blaustein performed the role of Nannetta in Falstaff with Maryland Lyric Opera, Countess Almaviva in Annapolis Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, and Pamina in The Magic Flute for Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ digital series, and she made her Carnegie Hall début as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana. 

A native of Olney, Maryland, Ms. Blaustein earned her Master of Music from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.