David Portillo

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,” American tenor David Portillo has established himself as a leading classical singer of his generation. He last appeared with Music of the Baroque in September 2022.

Projects for recent seasons include Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera; Septimius in a new production of Theodora with Theater an der Wien; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier with Santa Fe Opera; Ferrando in Così fan tutte with The Dallas Opera; Pirro in Ermione opposite Angela Meade and Lawrence Brownlee with Washington Concert Opera; Nadir in The Pearl Fishers with Austin Opera; Tonio in La fille du regiment with Minnesota Opera; Nemorino in L’elisir d’Amore with Calgary Opera; Dr. Richardson in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with Detroit Opera; Hades in Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera; Henry in Die schweigsame Frau with Bard Festival, and Don Ottavio in Osaka, Japan. He also joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel for a world tour of Beethoven’s Fidelio as Jacquino; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for Handel's Messiah and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and select Mozart arias.

David Portillo is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera in Vienna, Virginia. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and resides in northern New Jersey.

David Portillo returns to Music of the Baroque for Handel's Theodora on March 2 & 3.