Jorge Navarro Colorado
Tenor

Jorge Navarro Colorado studied classical singing and opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and completed his training in the Britten-Pears and Samling programs.

In the 2025-2026 season, Jorge sings Crasso in Pompeo Magno by Cavalli with Cappella Mediterranea (L. García-Alarcón) at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival and in concert performance at the Cité Bleue Geneva, Champs Elysées Paris and Theater an der Wien. He also sings Salieri's La Grotta di Trofonio at Tage Alter Musik Herne with Hofkapelle München (R. Lotter), Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano (F. Biondi), Bach's Magnificat with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (R. Alessandrini) in Rome, Handel's Rinaldo (1731) at Karlsruhe Handel Festival (R. Alessandrini), a new Handel's pasticcio Armida e Rinaldo at Palau de la Musica Catalana (PMC) and Château Fontainebleu with Balthasar Neumann Orchester (T. Hengelbrock), Le Nozze di Figaro in Pistoia with Orchestra Leonore (Giorgi) and a concert of Monteverdi duets in Sweden with Göteborg Baroque.

In the 2024-2025 season he sang Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and Dido and Aeneas with Accademia Bizantina (O. Dantone) at the Ravenna Festival, Goffredo in Rinaldo (1731) at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival with R. Alessandrini, Terradellas' Giuseppe Riconosciuto with Vespres d'Arnadí at Barcelona's PMC and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid (ANM), a concert of Christmas music with Arcangelo (J. Cohen) in Antwerp, Cambridge and the Wigmore Hall in London, Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with Capella Reial de Catalunya and Jordi Savall at the Monteverdi Festival Cremona, and the same piece at the Fez World Sacred Music Festival (Morocco), Li Fratelli Riconosciuti by Capelli with Europa Galante (F. Biondi) at the Farnese Festival (Parma), Scarlatti's La Santissima Annunziata with the same group as part of the Halle Handel Festival (HHF), and Hyllo in Ercole Amante by Cavalli at the Monteverdi Festival Cremona.

Highlights of recent seasons include his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse with F. Biondi, including two concerts at the ANM and the PMC, Mozart's Requiem with the Barcelona and Catalonia Symphony Orchestra (OBC) and T. Pinnock at L'Auditori in Barcelona, his debut at La Fenice in Venice as Gualtiero in Vivaldi's Griselda under the baton of D. Fasolis, Tempo in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at Buxton Festival with Early Opera Company (C. Curnyn), the baroque recital Arias for Ballino, with Opera Settecento in the London Handel Festival (LHF), the tenor roles in Lotario, Rodrigo and Ariodante at the Göttingen Handel Festival conducted by Laurence Cummings, Stravinsky's Pulcinella and the title role in Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the OBC at the PMC and with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla (OBS) at the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, The Messiah with various orchestras like Vespres d'Arnadí, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, and OBS in the main auditoriums in Spain, Rinaldo (1731) with Capella Cracoviensis at the HHF, Oronte in Alcina with Lautten Compagney touring Germany and Switzerland, Falla's La Vida Breve with ADDA Sinfónica, Bajazet in Tamerlano with English Touring Opera, Petrus in a staged version of Handel's Brockes Passion at Halle Oper as part of HHF, cover Septimius in Theodora at the Royal Opera House, and Scipione with Early Opera Company at LHF.

Jorge's discography currently includes Handel's operas Lotario and Rodrigo, recorded live at the Göttingen Festival (Accent), Handel's Brockes Passion both on CD and DVD (Naxos), Cleofida/Poro by Telemann/Handel with Il Gusto Barocco (CPO), the album German Cantatas for Voice and Virtuoso Violin with Ensemble Diderot and Johannes Pramsohler (Audax) and Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge, a recital album of arias and duets with Randall Scotting and the Academy of Ancient Music led by Laurence Cummings (Signum).

September 2025