Before turning to opera, soprano Rocío Pérez trained in clarinet and theatre in Madrid. In 2014, she joined the Opera Studio of the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, and was later admitted to the young artists programme of the Opéra de Lyon.

Her career began to take off following acclaimed debuts at La Fenice, where she appeared as Berenice in L’occasione fa il ladro, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and in her first Lucia di Lammermoor, and at the Semperoper in Dresden, again as the Queen of the Night.

Since then, she has sung Zerlina (Don Giovanni) in A Coruña, Paula (Los tres sombreros de copa) at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Dinorah (Le Pardon de Ploërmel) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the baton of Enrique Mazzola, as well as Tonina (Prima la Musica poi le Parole) and Frau Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), once again at the invitation of La Fenice. Her debut as Gilda (Rigoletto) at the Opéra de Nancy was met with critical acclaim.

In 2022, she returned to the Semperoper in Dresden for several performances of The Magic Flute as the Queen of the Night, a role she also performed with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Berlioz Festival. In concert, she appeared in a Zarzuela programme at the Kraków Philharmonic and sang the soprano solo in Fauré’s Requiem alongside the Basque National Orchestra, Euskadiko. She also took part in the Opera Gala of the German AIDS Foundation in Bonn.

More recently, she made her debut at the Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur for the New Year’s Concert and returned to perform Nannetta in a new production of Falstaff. She then took on the role of Blonde in a semi-staged production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, and reprised the role of Gilda for her debut at the Chilean National Opera.