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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