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 2024-2025 season Jorge sings 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 Palau de la Música Catalana (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,
Scarlatti's La Santissima Annunziata with Europa Galante (F.
Biondi) as part of the Halle Handel Festival, Monteverdi's Vespro
della Beata Vergine with Coro Costanzo Porta in Fez, and Cavalli's L'Ercole
Amante at the Monteverdi Festival in 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), 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).
April 2025