The San Francisco Examiner described Perez’s role debut as “meltingly beautiful.” It already would have been a momentous night for Perez: on top of opening San Francisco Opera’s season live and in-person since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered theater doors, Perez was singing the titular role of the Puccini masterpiece for the first time. Howard stood and picked her up in a twirling embrace. The audience roared as he got down on one knee, video from KQED’s Gabe Meline shows, and Perez jumped up and down before kissing him. She was “awestruck,” she said, and “it was one of those moments where my soul was just paying all attention to what he was saying.” “I didn’t have a clue about what was going on,” Perez told ABC News, adding that she thought Howard was just walking up to give her a hug. Howard asked Perez to marry him “in front of God, in front of my sisters and cousins, and most importantly in front of your mom and dad,” according to San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook.
This time, though, they were tears of joy for a real-life couple.ĭuring curtain call at San Francisco Opera, bass Soloman Howard proposed to soprano Ailyn Perez to raucous cheers from the crowd. It’s not unusual for “Tosca” to end in tears.
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