Mezzo-soprano Yeraldín León was born in Bogotá (Colombia) in 1994. Between 2018 and 2023, she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music in the “Alfredo Kraus” Voice Chair Fundación Ramón Areces, with Professor Susan Bullock CBE, among others. In 2021, she received the Diploma for the most outstanding student in her chair.
She received her initial training as a mezzosoprano at the Universidad Central de Colombia with Alejandro Roca and Camila Toro. Furthermore, she has participated in masterclasses with Teresa Berganza, Sarah Connolly, David B. Philip, John Graham Hall, Francisco Araiza, Iris Vermillion (as part of the Santander Encounter of Music and Academia), Adrian Thompson, and Anne Sofie Von Otter.
She was a member of the Opera Workshop at the Universidad Central, where she performed the roles of Tierra in the opera “Los elementos” by Antonio de Literes; the Countess in “I due Figaro” by Saverio Mercadante; and Public Opinion in “Orpheus in the Underworld” by Jacques Offenbach.
She had her first leading role in “El Gato con Botas” by Xavier Montsalvatge at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá. In 2017, she won second prize in the Youth Category of Colombia’s national singing competition. In 2018, she participated as a student in the masterclasses of the Cartagena de Indias International Music Festival and performed as a soloist in the opera “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” by Kurt Weill, as one of the women of Mahagonny, in a co-production by the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Municipal de Santiago, and the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo. More recently, she performed in the closing concert of the 11th Autumn Music Festival at the Casa de las Flores, in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, organized by Patrimonio Nacional.
As a student at the School, she has performed as a soloist with the Sinfonietta (conducted by Johannes Kalitzke) and in the cycles World Heritage Cities (Toledo), Banco Sabadell Young Talents (Teatro Real in Madrid), and 21st Century Soloists. Additionally, she has been a member of the Grupo Voces Tempo de Fundación Orange.