A soloist on the GRAMMY®-winning album Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works, Cecilia Duarte has been praised by the New York Times as “a creamy voiced mezzo-soprano.” Cecilia premiered the role of Renata in the first Mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna with the famous mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera in 2010. She has performed the role at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, The Fort Worth Opera, Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito (Ecuador), New York City Opera, El Paso Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Opera San Antonio. She also created the role of Renata in El milagro del Recuerdo for Houston Grand Opera (2019, 2022) and Arizona Opera (2021), and sang Dido in The Queen of Carthage (for Early Music Vancouver and re:Naissance Opera). Other roles include Jessie Lydell in A Coffin in Egypt, (Houston Grand Opera and at The Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles); Alicia in Some Light Emerges (Houston Grand Opera); and Alma in “Boundless,” the first episode of Houston Grand Opera’s web opera series Star-cross’d.

In early music, performances include the role of Melissa in Caccini’s Alcina, and appearances with Ars Lyrica Houston, Mercury Houston, The Bach Society Houston, the Boston Early Music Festival, Bach Collegium San Diego, re:Naissance Opera, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific Music Works, Blue Heron, Tafelmusik, the Newberry Consort, and the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble.