American tenor David Portillo, winner of the 2024 Sphinx Medal of Excellence by the Sphinx Organization, and praised by Opera News for “high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon,” has established himself as a leading classical singer of his generation.

In the 2024/25 season, Mr. Portillo will sing Tamino in The Magic Flute holiday presentation at the Metropolitan Opera, the roles of Natura, Pain and Furia in La Calisto at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Dr. Richardson in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Houston Grand Opera, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Bénédict in Béatrice et Bénédict with Irish National Opera, Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano with Haymarket Opera in Chicago, and in concert, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the San Antonio Symphony and Septimius in Handel’s Theodora with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque.

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