2025 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVal
June 16-30
Cancún, México
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Welcome to a Summer Program in Paradise
"El Mundo Maya"
Festival HOTEL HEADQUArTERS
Hotel DOS PLAYAS CANCUN and IMPERIAL LAGUNA CANCUN by Faranda Hotels
will play host to the OperaMaya 2025 “Brighter Days” season.
HOTEL DOS PLAYAS CANCUN
The Hotel Dos Playas will serve as headquarters for this season of OperaMaya. Hosting eight concerts, guests will have full access to the complete concert roster of this year’s festival from the comfort of their hotel! Reserve your room now and receive an exclusive discount using the code OPERAMAYA2025 to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
IMPERIAL LAGUNA CANCUN
Students participating in the OperaMaya International Music Festival Orchestra, Young Artist Program, and Emerging Artist Program will have accommodations in the Imperial Laguna Hotel, just 1 kilometer from the Hotel Dos Playas, in the heart of the Cancun hotel zone.
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Composition competition
The OperaMaya Foundation announces its annual International Composition Competition for original works in Maya Language, to be debuted during the ÓperaMaya International Music Festival in the Yucatán Peninsula with the OperaMaya Festival Orchestra and Vocal Young Artist Programs—complete rules and regulations available upon request to: info@operamaya.com Subject: Composition Competition Rules.
Composer spotlight
Luis M. Ruelas Romo
2017 Composition Competition Winner
Luis M. Ruelas Romo (b. 1992), young emerging composer, who's voice bridges the gap between contemporary language and the folkloric idiom. His works have been premiered in both the US and Mexico, instrumentation ranging from solo piano, cello and guitar suite, string quartet, various forms of chamber ensembles, chamber orchestra all the way to string orchestra. He recently was a scholarship recipient from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation.
Winner of the 2017 OperaMaya International Composition Competition, Luis was a finalist that same year of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In 2015 Luis was awarded Honorary Mention at the 63rd BMI Student Composer Awards for his piece "Imágenes de Guanajuato". In 2013, Luis was a finalist in the International Music Composition Contest carried out by Don Quixote Iconographic Museum for the renowned Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Viva! Maya Culture Festival
October 2025
Textile Display by Artist Miguel Loeza Carrillo
CUARTETO MEXICO FEATURED ENSEMBLE
Featured Maya Artist
Harpist- Marco Pat
Bloomington, IN
The OperaMaya foundation
Located in the Yucatán Peninsula of México, has the mission to create world-renowned artistic expressions that exemplify both the historical and modern Maya Culture.
ÓperaMaya produces several events throughout the year including the “ÓperaMaya International Music Festival”, a cultural exchange of musicians from across the globe held in June throughout the Yucatán Peninsula of México. With a mission of breaking the confines of class and conception to bring opera to the masses throughout the region of the Maya. The festival features Guest Conductors, Emerging Artist, and Young Artist vocal training programs (YAPs), Opera Chorus, Collaborative Piano, Festival Orchestra, Brass, Wind and String Ensembles, Ensemble in Residence, along with special guest performances.
The “Viva! Maya Culture Festival” brings Maya culture to the midwest. Maya artists ranging from photographers to poets share their works in a diverse series of events celebrating the living Maya Culture.
The"OperaMaya Composition
Competition” for original works in Maya Language, features a new composition annually. Debuted during the OperaMaya International Music Festival, winners packages as well as complete rules and regulations are available upon request.
