EVA DE LA O (1931 - 2019)

Eva de La O, opera singer, impresario and founder of Musica de Camara, passed away on Saturday, May 4th, 2019 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manahattan, New York of lung cancer. She was 88.

A Julliard trained soprano and proud Puerto Rican, Eva devoted her life to promoting other classically trained musicians and composers of Puerto Rican, Carribean and Latin American descent. She did this mainly through her nonprofit organization, Musica de Camara, which over its 39 year history has promoted and premiered numerous Hispanic artists and composers throughout New York City. Through staged concerts and educational classes at public schools in East Harlem, Musica de Camara has been able to accomplish Eva’s goals of bringing classical music into the New York City cultural scene and bringing recognition to the Hispanic community as equal purveyors of classical music.

Over the course of her career she sang from small venues to The Metropolitan Opera and everything in between, including many Broadway performances and performances around the world. During the Clinton administration, Eva was honored to accept an invitation to perform at The White House before numerous invited guests including President and Mrs. Clinton.

Eva de la O is survived by her loving children, daughter Sara and son David.