Jorge Carlo Mariani, tenor

Jorge Carlo Mariani begins his 2021/2022 season working in Theater Dortmund for his second year singing Gastone in La Traviata under the baton of Gabriel Feltz and Motonori Kobayashi. Also during this time, he will sing the role of Alvar in the Opera Fernánd Cortez, Peter Quint from Turn of the Screw; Marzio from Mitridate Re di Ponto; Rinaldo from Armida; Tamino from Zauberflote; Masaniello in la Muette de Portici.

In 2018/2019 he was invited to sing in the Estonia National Opera, the Duke from Rigoletto and Romeo from Romeo & Juliette. In the summers of 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022, he was invited to the Bayreuther Festspiele to combine solo and choir work under the baton of Christian Thielemann. In 2015 he was part of the production of the Mussorgsky Opera Khovanshina in the Dutch National Opera under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher. Mariani worked together with Dirk Brosse and Ivo Venkov in the Concertgebouw Brugge and Palais des Beaux Arts singing in the concert celebrating 200 years of independence of Mexico.

Mariani studied at the Royal Conservatory Ghent working together with Gidon Saks and Marcos Pujol. He was also part of Rossini Opera Academy in Pesaro working with Juan Diego Florez. He was part of Ars Vocalis Mexico in 2013, Vienna Mastercourse in 2014 and also took Masterclass with Sir Thomas Allen, Sara Mingardo, Michael Spyres and Jennifer Hamilton. He gave solo performances with the Antwerpen Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ivo Venkov, the Ghent Symphonie Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brosse.

Mariani is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian, French, German and Dutch.