Bio — Jesús Vicente Murillo

“Jesús Vicente Murillo was utterly lovable, with an expansive sound and easy stage presence”

— Jennifer Goltz (Opera News, June 2020)

Hailed by Opera News as “utterly loveable, with an expansive sound and easy stage presence”, Bass-Baritone, Jesús Vicente Murillo, has been performing Opera, Musical Theater, Concerts and Art Song across the United States and Canada since making his debut at with Detroit Opera (formerly Michigan Opera Theater) as The Android in Cary John Franklin’s The Very Last Green Thing at the age of eighteen.

From 2017-2019 he was the Resident Artist Baritone with Utah Opera in Salt Lake City, where he sang leading roles in over 400 performances. Other notable Young Artist Programs he has attended include Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2022), Santa Fe Opera (2020), Chautauqua Opera (2014 & 2019), Fargo-Moorhead Opera (2016), Opera Saratoga (2015), and The Ohio Light Opera (2013).

Since completing his time in Utah, he has made Philadelphia his new home, where throughout the height of the pandemic he taught music at Germantown Friends School, and was the Bass Section Leader with The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill, PA. Coming out of the pandemic, his first projects were Barber of Seville and Don Giovanni with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, and Frida with Detroit Opera.

Projects for the 2022-23 season include debuts with The Metropolitan Opera as Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo, Zuniga in Carmen with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera San Jose, and covering Don/Bobby/Prosecutor in The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing with Chicago Opera Theatre. Additionally he will perform Papageno in #MagicFlute with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, The Professor in That Hell-Bound Train for Opera America’s New Works Forum, in addition to a slate of other TBA projects.

He received his Bachelor of Music: Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Music: Opera and Voice Performance from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He lives in Philadelphia, where maintains a vocal studio.

Roles:

Flemish Deputy

Zuniga

Il Prince di Bouillon

Papageno

Guillermo Kahlo

Leporello

Dr. Bartolo

Betto di Signa

Dr. Bartolo*

Masetto

Figaro

Dr. Bartolo*

Louis Godey

Papageno*

Second Armored Priest

Businessman/Hunter

The Captain/Crook/Judge

Gregorio

Frank*

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Captain Gardiner

Spanish Sailor

Belcore

Il Conte Ceprano*

Monterone*

Ali Hakim*

L’Inconnu

José Castro

Bob Noxious

Don Magnifico

Zweiter Gefangener*

Tom/John

Simone Donati

Dr. Dulcamara

Friedrich Bhaer

Mr. Dashwood

Don Magnifico*

Simone Donati

Dr. Bartolo

Fourth Washington Dandy

Il Registrario Ufficiale

Alex

Yakuside*

Jacob*

L’Horloge/Le Chat

Giuseppe Palmieri

Dr. Bartolo

Kálman Zsupán

Giorgio

Mr. Jackson

Jenkins

Musiklehrer

Maffeo Polo

Colline

Masetto

King Balthazar

Marco Donati

Bill Calhoun

King Hildebrand

Sir Marmaduke

The Android

*=Covered Role

Opera:

Don Carlo

Carmen

Adriana Lecouvreur

#MagicFlute

Frida

Don Giovanni

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gianni Schicchi/Buoso’s Ghost

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Don Giovanni

¡Figaro! (90210)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

No Ladies in the Lady’s Book**

Die Zauberflöte

The Little Prince

Candide

Romeo et Juliette

Die Fledermaus

Gianni Schicchi

Moby Dick

Freeze Frame: The Elixir of Love

Rigoletto

Oklahoma!

Cyrano

La Fanciulla del West

The Final Battle for Love

La Cenerentola

Fidelio

The Face on the Barroom Floor

Gianni Schicchi

L'Elisir d'Amore

Little Women

La Cenerentola

Gianni Schicchi

Le Nozze di Figaro

The Ballad of Baby Doe

Madama Butterfly

Alice and Alex in Operaland

Madama Butterfly

The Ballad of Baby Doe

L'Enfant et les Sortileges

The Gondoliers

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

The Gypsy Baron

The Gondoliers

Silk Stockings

Lady, Be Good!

Ariadne auf Naxos

The Red Silk Thread

La Boheme

Don Giovanni

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Gianni Schicchi

Kiss Me, Kate

Princess Ida

The Sorcerer

The Very Last Green Thing

**=World Premier

Company:

The Metropolitan Opera

Opera Theatre Saint Louis

Opera Baltimore

Opera Theatre Saint Louis

Detroit Opera

Fargo-Moorhead Opera

Detroit Opera

Santa Fe Opera

Bare Opera

Chautauqua Opera

Utah Opera

Charlottesville Opera

Detroit Opera

Thompson Street Opera

Opera Louisiane

Caramoor

Fargo-Moorhead Opera

Opera McGill

Opera Saratoga

Opera McGill

Chautauqua Opera

Univ. of Michigan Opera

UMGASS

Univ. of Michigan Opera

The Ohio Light Opera

Univ. of Michigan Opera

Arbor Opera Theater

Seagle Music Colony

Main Street Opera Theater

Univ. of Michigan Opera

Seagle Music Colony

UMGASS

Detroit Opera