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, and Scarlatti's La Santissima Annunziata with Europa
Galante (F. Biondi) as part of the Halle Handel Festival (HHF).
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).
September
2024