The young soprano Dennis Orellana was born in 2000 in San Pedro Sula (Honduras). He began his music training as a trombonist in the youth symphony orchestra in his home city, and in 2019 began his singing studies at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid. He also studied with Emanuela Salucci at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Carolina Alcaide in Madrid and at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
In September 2022 he appeared at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival as Alessandro in the first modern staging of Leonardo Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie, under Martyna Pastuszka in a production by Max Emanuel Cencic, and also sang Zeffiro in Albinoni’s Il nascimento dell’Aurora and Ernesto in a concert performance of Giovanni Bononcini’s Griselda.
He went on to sing Ernesto in Wrocław, Berardo in Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo at the Konzerthaus Dortmund and at La Scala, Milan, and Alessandro in Caldara’s Il Venceslao in Gliwice and at the Theater an der Wien.
At the Escuela Superior de Canto in 2021 Dennis Orellana sang the role of Amor in the student production La selva sin amor, a new composition to a 17th-century Spanish libretto, and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro).
In August of the same year, he made his professional debut as Berardo at the Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid, performing alongside singers such as Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva and Franco Fagioli.
Other recent engagements include Moth (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Wilhelma Theatre in Stuttgart and Ramiro (La finta giardiniera) at the Salzburg Landestheater.
