
Jorge Eleazar Baritone
The Spanish / Mexican baritone Jorge Eleazar studied singing in Mexico City. He was a member of the Placido Domingo Young Artist Development Program at Les Arts Valencia. He made his debut at the Teatro Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where he sang his first engagements Guglielmo ("Cosí fan tutte"), Biscroma ("Viva la mamma") and Dancaïro ("Carmen") and Figaro ("Le nozze di Figaro") and subsequently as Belcore ("L'elisir d'amore") and Malatesta ("Don Pasquale") also in Mexico. In his first engagement at Les Arts Valencia he sang Brander (“La damnation de Faust”), Roberto (“I vespri siciliani”), Ping (“Turandot”) and Baron (“La traviata”). Further engagements lead him to the Opera de Tenerife as Taddeo in (“L’italiana in Algeri”), Szcecin Opera (Tonio in “Pagliacci” and Gianni Schicchi) and the Bregenz Festival (1st line-up Conte Ceprano “Rigoletto”).
Jorge Eleazar was reinvited as first cast of the new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto by Philipp Stoezl for the Bregenzer Festspiele 2021, following his success in the premiere as first cast, having recorded the DVD and on the TV broadcast on ARTE TV. Other recent engagements include the part of Colas in “Bastien et Bastienne” in Genoa 2020. Teatro Real also invited him to sing in the presentation of the opera “La Cenerentola”, role of Dandini. He will return to Oviedo to sing in the zarzuela Pan y Toros and Satyagra at Vlaamse Opera.
He sang the role of Brander in Damiano Michieletto’s production of La Damnation de Faust and Baron Douphol in Sofia Coppola’s production of La Traviata at Les Arts. He also went on tour to Muscat, Oman. This season he sung Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri, Dandini in La Cenerentola in Spain; Impresario in the zarzuela “El Duo de la Africana” in Oviedo.
Eleazar works closely with conductors such as Henrik Nanasi, Enrique Mazzola, Roberto Abbado and Fabio Biondi as well as with well-known directors such as Damiano Michieletto, Philip Stoezl, Sofia Coppola, Emilio Sagi and in particular with Davide Livermore.
RECENT & UPCOMING
- Vlaamse Opera, Satyagraha
- Teatro Campoamor, zarzuela Pan y Toros
- Bregenzer Festspiele, Rigoletto
RECORDINGS
- DVD of new production of Rigoletto by Philip Stoezl for the Bregenzer Festspiele 2019.
REPERTOIRE
Role |
Title |
Theatre |
Ceprano | Rigoletto | Bregenzer Festspiele |
Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi | Szczecin Opera |
Tonio | Pagliacci | Szczecin Opera |
Ceprano | Rigoletto | Bregenzer Festspiele |
Brander | La damnation de Faust | Les Arts, Valencia |
Douphol | la Traviata | Les Arts, Valencia |
Buonafede | Il mondo della Luna | Les Arts, Valencia |
Dancaire | Carmen | Les Arts, Valencia |
Plutone | The Opera! | Royal Opera Muscat |
Taddeo | L'italiana in Algeri | Opera de Tenerife |
Dandini | La Cenerentola | Cuenca |
Querubini | El duo de la Africana | Oviedo Lirico Espanol |
Antonio | Il viaggio a Reims | Opera Bellas Artes |
Ping | Turandot (reduced) | Les Arts, Valencia |
Raimbaud | Le comte Ory | Teatro Degollado |
Conte Almaviva | Le nozze di Figaro | Zamora |
Roberto | I vespri sicialiani | Les Arts, Valencia |
Papageno | Die Zauberflöte | Duque de Pastrana |
Malatesta | Don Pasquale | ENM |
Belcore | L'elisir d'amore | Tour |
Figaro | Le nozze di Figaro | CNA |
Guglielmo | Cosi fan tutte | Opera Bellas Artes, Mex |
Biscroma | Viva la Mamma | Opera Bellas Artes, Mex |
REPERTOIRE suited to Jorge Eleazar
Composer |
Role |
Opera |
Beethoven | Fernando | Fidelio |
Bellini | Riccardo | I Puritani |
Bizet | Zurga | Les Pecheurs de Perles |
Escamillo / Dancairo / Morales | Carmen | |
Cimarosa | Conte Robinson | Il Matrimonio segreto |
Donizetti | Malatesta | Don Pasquale |
Belcore | L'elisir | |
Enrico | Lucia | |
Norrington | Roberto Devereux | |
Sulpice | La Fille du Régiment | |
Alfonso XI | La favorite | |
Gounod | Mercutio | Romeo et Juliette |
Leoncavallo | Silvio | Pagliacci |
Massenet | Lescaut | Manon |
Albert | Werther | |
Athanael | Thais | |
Herodes | Herodiade | |
Mozart | Don Giovanni / Leporello / Masetto | Don Giovanni |
Papageno | Die Zauberfloete | |
Figaro | Le nozze di Figaro | |
Guglielmo | Cosi fan Tutte | |
Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi |
Sharpless | Madame Butterfly | |
Marcello / Schaunard | La bohème | |
Angelotti | Tosca | |
Rossini | Alidoro/Dandini | La cenerentola |
Don Profondo | Il Viaggio a Reims | |
Taddeo | L'iItaliana in Algeri | |
Gaudenzio | Signor Bruschino | |
Taddeo / Poeta | Turco in Italia | |
Strauss J. | Dr Falke | Die Fledermaus |
Strauss R. | Arlequín | Ariadne auf Naxos |
Faninal | Der Rosenkavalier | |
Verdi | Belfiore | Un giorno di regno |
Marullo | Rigoletto | |
Rodrigo | Don Carlo | |
Weber | Ottokar | Der Freischütz |
Jorge Eleazar: Rigoletto, Bergenz Festival
Jorge Eleazar in "viva la mamma" by Donizetti at Opera de Bellas Artes (2015)
Jorge Eleazar, Ceprano in RIGOLETTO. Bregenz Festival (2019)
Jorge Eleazar: Don Giovanni (Madamina), December 2021
Jorge Eleazar: La Cenerentola, Dandini
Jorge Eleazar: Il Viaggio a Reims, Don Profondo
Jorge Eleazar: Carmen, Escamillo
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