In the 2024/25 season, the Mexican-American tenor Joshua Guerrero appeared in the title role of Don Carlos and as Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at the Vienna State Opera, as Luigi (Il tabarro) at the Paris Opéra and as Don José (Carmen) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. He also sang in a Christmas concert with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorenzo Viotti and performed the role of Des Grieux in a concert performance of Manon Lescaut at the Washington Concert Opera.
Future engagements will take him to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the San Francisco Opera, the Opéra national de Lyon, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Zurich Opera House and back to Paris and Vienna.
Highlights of recent seasons have included Faust in Boito’s Mefistofele in Rome; Pinkerton at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Covent Garden, the Santa Fe Opera, Florida Grand Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival; Luigi in Vienna; Luigi and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in Amsterdam; Macduff (Macbeth) in Vienna, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Los Angeles Opera and the Zurich Opera House; Des Grieux at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Frankfurt Opera; Rodolfo (La bohème) in Paris, at Covent Garden, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the San Diego Opera and for the Canadian Opera Company; Don Carlos in Chicago; Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) at the English National Opera and for the Canadian Opera Company; Cavaradossi (Tosca) in Amsterdam and Santa Fe; Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Florida; Alfredo (La traviata) at the Washington National Opera; Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) in Santa Fe; Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and Arcadio in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas at the Houston Grand Opera.
On the concert platform his appearances have included Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop and on a European tour with the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel; a Richard Tucker Music Foundation gala concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall; an aria and duet programme with the soprano Joyce El-Khoury and the NDR Radiophilharmonie, broadcast on German television; and an appearance with Ailyn Pérez in the concert series ‘One Amazing Night’ at the San Diego Opera.
Following performances in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles at the Los Angeles Opera, he made his European debut in 2016 as Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
Joshua Guerrero graduated from the Young Artist Program of the Los Angeles Opera and in 2014 won second prize in Operalia. He participated in the recording of The Ghosts of Versailles, which won two Grammy Awards in 2017. He also features on the soundtrack of the Disney/Pixar film Coco.
