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Javier Camarena Tenor

Born in Xalapa in Mexico’s State of Veracruz, Javier Camarena studied with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Perfecto at the Universidad Veracruzana before completing his musical studies under Hugo Barreiro and Maria Eugenia Sutti at the University of Guanajuato. 

In 2004, he won first prize in Mexico’s Carlo Morelli National Singing Competition, and the following year he won the Juan Oncinas Award at Barcelona’s Francisco Viñas Competition. HE was then invited to join the Ensemble of the Zurich Opera. 

In recent season, he sang the roles of Nemorino (L’Elisir d’amore) at the Gaetano Donizetti Theater in Bergamo, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Edgardo di Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Metropolitan Opera New York, Tamino (The Magic Flute) at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Arturo (I Puritani) at the Paris Opera, Gualtiero (Ilpirata) at Teatro Real Madrid and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) at the Zurich Opera and Metropolitan Opera New York. 

Other projects have led him to the Monte-Carlo

Javier Camarena

Mexican operatic tenor

Javier Camarena (born March 26, 1976) is a Mexican operatictenor.

Camarena was born in Xalapa, Veracruz.[1] His father was a nuclear plant technician.[2]

He specializes in roles from the bel canto era of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti operas such as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Arturo in I puritani and Conte Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He has also sung leading tenor roles in Mozart and Verdi operas.[3] Camarena has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses and festivals including the Zurich Opera, where he was a company member for a number of years, the Royal Opera London, the Salzburg Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Paris Opéra, the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Liceu Barcelona and the Staatsoper Wien.[3] His performance in the role of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Real Madrid in 2018 won praise for his "voice of gobsmacking beauty, thrillingly secure high notes and delicious timbre",[4] where h

Javier Camarena

He made his debut in 2004 in Mexico at the Palacio de Bellas Artes singing Tonio in La Fille du Régiment. In Mexico, he subsequently performed Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’amore), Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Dorvil (La Scala di Seta).

Javier Camarena most recently became the talk of the opera world, when he joined the ranks of Luciano Pavarotti and Juan Diego Flórez to become the third singer in 70 years to perform an encore at the Metropolitan Opera House when he stopped the house during a performance of Rossini’s la Cenerentola singing Ramiro’s aria "Si ritrovarla io giuro". Later at Madrid’s Teatro Real, he repeated the same historic feat, with the encore of “Ah! Mes amis quelle jour de fête, from Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. Camarena is the only tenor in the history of both opera houses to sing encores in two consecutive performances.

Anticipating his return to the MET in March 2016, Opera News Magazine dedicated its 80th anniversary edition’s cover to him. "Tenor sensation", as presented by Scott Barnes, h

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