Upcoming engagements include Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Knoxville Opera and Boston Lyric Opera in 2006. In the 2003-04 season, Melina Pineda performs numerous roles with Florida Grand Opera, including Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Flora in La Traviata, the title role of the American Premiere of Ede Donath's Szulamit, Concepcion in a tour of L'Heure espagnole, and covered Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera. Other engagements include Beatrice in Beatrice et Benedict with the Aspen Music Festival and Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti with Berkshire Opera.

Melina Pineda's 2002-03 engagements included her debut with Florida Grand Opera as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, with Boston Baroque as Historicus in Carissimi's Jepthe, and her return to Boston Lyric Opera as Mercedes in Carmen.

In the 2001-02 season, Melina Pineda made her debut with Boston Lyric Opera as Thibault in Don Carlo, and with Utah Festival Opear as Adah in Naughty Marietta. In this same season, she sang Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, and Trommler in The Emperor from Atlantis with the Boston University Opera Institute.

A native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Ms. Pineda appeared as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Musical Foundation of Honduras, as well as a soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Honduras and the Summer Music Festival of Honduras featuring selected arias, and a series of solo recitals. She sang a Spanish song recital for the 2002 Presidential Inauguration in Honduras.