Jesus reprises the role of The Commentator for the fourth time in his career, in this incredible one-act opera about politics, music, and friendship.
Jesus re-joins Maestro Peter Jaffey, after their successful collaboration on “Hollywood Spectacular”with Symphony San Jose. Join Jesus, Peter, and the fabulous members of The Stockton Symphony for an incredible evening of music and holiday cheer!
December: 7th
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!
Jesus’s First Major Art Exhibition!!!
Thanks to a generous sponsorship from Artists 4 Artists Global through The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Jesus is having his first major art exhibition! Join him and a host of incredible artists, in Philadelphia on October 11th and 12th (Saturday and Sunday), from 12-6pm, for two incredible evenings of art, music, discussion, and demonstration.
This retrospective will cover the last 13 years of his visual arts journey, from 2012-2025, and will feature. panel discussions and demonstrations by the artist.
All works will be for sale, and all proceeds will directly benefit the artist.
Location:
Norcom Community Center
10980 Norcom Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19154
Jesus sings the role of Jose Maria Gomez in this exciting new production of Hector Armienta’s modern masterpiece, Zorro, with Opera San Jose.
An evening of cinema and singing with Jesus and Symphony San Jose. Jesus sings, “Under the Sea” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and “High Noon” from High Noon.
Jesus joins the company of Opera San Jose for a magical evening of opera and musical theater.
Jesus performs in Pittsburgh’s incredible Carnegie Hall as the Bass Soloist with the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale.
Jesus debuts the role of Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss in Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece in addition to a company debut with Opera Tampa.
Jesus joins National Sawdust in Brooklyn NYC for an exciting new production of Salome, in partnership with Harvard University.
Jesus plays the role of Schaunard in Puccini’s masterpiece with Opera San Jose
Jesus revisits the role of Il Prince di Bouillon in Cilea’s masterpiece, with Pittsburgh Festival Opera
Jesus stars as the jealous Alfio in Helena Symphony’s premier of Mascagni’s verismo masterpiece.
This one-act opera may only be seventy-five minutes, but the story packs in family drama, infidelity, a duel, and even a couple of excellent drinking songs!
An ode to the common man, this piece zooms in on the intricacies of small-town life in nineteenth-century Sicily. Mascagni masterfully layers the beauty of the pastoral town on Easter morning with the strict behavoral codes of honor to which its inhabitants are bound. Whether facing an unfaithful spouse or a pregnancy outside of marriage, “cavalleria rusticana” or “rustic chivalry” reigns supreme.
One Night Only: May 4th, 2024
Jesus Vicente Murillo stars as the lovable Papageno in Nashville Opera’s fresh production of Mozart’s timeless classic.
Mozart’s miraculous blend of the human and the supernatural, comedy and romance, draws us into a world where a prince, Tamino, and a princess, Pamina, triumph over every obstacle in their search for wisdom and enlightenment, and are finally united in love. This is a gloriously varied score, with the lovers’ soulful arias, the stratospheric vocal fireworks of the villainous Queen of the Night, the subterranean depths of the formidable high priest Sarastro, and the folk-like melodies of the lovable birdcatcher, Papageno.
Jesus Vicente Murillo stars as The Commentator in this modern American masterwork.
Derrick Wang’s delightful one-act opera Scalia/Ginsburg is inspired by two opera-loving, ideologically opposed Supreme Court justices who, trapped in purgatory, debate their legal opinions in song (and dance) in order to secure their freedom.
Jesus stars as the beloved barber in this incredible new production!
Transported to India during the British Raj, Beaumarchais’ timeless comedy arrives in a new land where the familiar and the faraway distill new insight into this immortal opera. Sexual politics and class resentments play out through the prism of colonialism, all fighting against the colorblind humanity of Mozart’s vision.
Something old, something new, something borrowed and something… threatening to throw Figaro’s wedding plans into disarray. Count Almaviva's wandering eye has landed on his wife's maid Susanna, who's about to marry his own manservant Figaro. Racing against the clock, Figaro quickly concocts a plan to outwit his master. Will the wily duo outwit the Count in time to save the day?
Jesus Vicente Murillo stars as Cesar Chavez in this exciting new opera about one of America’s unsung labor-rights heroes, Dolores Huerta.
Dolores Huerta is a legend in the fight for farm workers’ rights. In June of 1968, the movement lost a major ally and Dolores lost a friend when Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. The opera focuses on Dolores’ struggles, triumphs, and tragedies during some of the most iconic and charged weeks of American history.
Dolores is the first commission to come out of West Edge Opera’s project Aperture. Created during the height of COVID, Aperture members watched the development of Dolores online 2020-2021. We now invite you to an hour-long program featuring excerpts from the opera, in person.
Jesus stars as Don Fernando in The Opera Company of Middlebury’s exciting new production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s operatic masterpiece!!!
Fidelio celebrates the extraordinary victory and bravery of Leonore who, disguised as a young man named Fidelio, works in a prison where she suspects her husband Florestan is being held as a political prisoner. She eventually finds him there and discovers he has been ordered to be murdered by the tyrannous governor Don Pizarro. Through her bravery and determination, Leonore restores justice.
Performances: June 2, 4, 8, 9, 10
Jesus Vicente Murillo stars as the villainous Dr. Bartolo in this fantastic new production of Rossini’s masterpiece with Opera NEO!!!
This big-hearted comedy tells the story of Rosina, ward of the lascivious Dr. Bartolo, and her clandestine romance with the dashing Count Almaviva. The Count enlists the help of the barber, Figaro, who has a finger in every pie around town. Using a series of disguises (some better than others), the Count and Figaro scheme to outwit Bartolo, with hilarious and heartwarming results.
This one-of-a-kind production will be held at San Diego's answer to Seville – The Spanish Village Art Center in Balboa Park – and is conducted and directed by Peter Kozma.
Jesus Vicente Murillo makes his Metropolitan Opera debut as Flemish Deputy in David McVicar’s monumental production—created for the Met premiere of the original French version of Verdi’s gripping drama in the 2021–22 season—returns, now sung in Italian and starring an unbeatable cast of dramatic voices. Russell Thomas, one of today’s fastest-rising tenors, takes on the title role, a Spanish nobleman caught between private passion and public duty, sharing the stage with sopranos Eleonora Buratto and Angela Meade as Elisabeth de Valois, mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Princess Eboli, baritone Peter Mattei as Rodrigo, bass-baritone John Relyea as the Grand Inquisitor, and bass Günther Groissböck as King Philip II. Carlo Rizzi conducts one of the repertory’s most epic works.
Jesus Vicente Murillo makes his Metropolitan Opera debut as Flemish Deputy in David McVicar’s monumental production—created for the Met premiere of the original French version of Verdi’s gripping drama in the 2021–22 season—returns, now sung in Italian and starring an unbeatable cast of dramatic voices. Russell Thomas, one of today’s fastest-rising tenors, takes on the title role, a Spanish nobleman caught between private passion and public duty, sharing the stage with sopranos Eleonora Buratto and Angela Meade as Elisabeth de Valois, mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Princess Eboli, baritone Peter Mattei as Rodrigo, bass-baritone John Relyea as the Grand Inquisitor, and bass Günther Groissböck as King Philip II. Carlo Rizzi conducts one of the repertory’s most epic works.
Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) was a radically innovative composer. Violently persecuted for his leftist activism in the Greek Civil War that followed the Second World War, he fled Greece to live the rest of his life in Paris. One of the most explicit expressions of his resultant feelings of trauma, guilt, and displacement can be found in the vocal piece he called Kassandra (1987). This demanding work requires its two performers to enact and explore the alienation experienced by the prophet Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Xenakis’ Kassandra is defined by a symbiotic relationship between percussionist and vocalist, by a simultaneously controlled and improvisatory score based on extracts from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and by a striking use of the baritone singer’s falsetto as well as his chest voice. These features of the piece mark out Cassandra as ‘other’ in her origins, her sex, and her language, while also hinting that her characteristics are not entirely foreign, but are in fact understood or even shared by the very communities that initially seemed to exclude her.
Featuring Bass-Baritone, Jesús Vicente Murillo as Kassandra/Chorus
“¡Viva la vida!” The life and art of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are the stuff of legend. Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s kaleidoscopic music is a perfect match for the woman, her passion and her legacy, with its mesmerizing fusion of opera, Mexican folkloric and mariachi music, and Broadway musical theater. The hauntingly beautiful work, performed in Spanish and English with projected translations in both languages, presents the icon’s life from her teenage embrace of revolutionary politics through to her early death. Through music, monologue, dance and visual spectacle, the opera showcases the major events of Frida’s life that infused her incredible world-altering art, including her stormy love life with fellow artistic firebrand Diego Rivera. Witness some of her best-known paintings come to life as this celebration of one of the greatest and most-beloved artists of the 20th century unfolds on the Abraham Chavez Theatre stage.
Please note: This opera contains adult themes and language. Not appropriate for children under 7.
Featuring Baritone, Jesús Vicente Murillo, as Guillermo Kahlo, Petate Vendor, Cachucha, R.J. Rockefeller, and Edward G. Robinson
Tickets and information can be found here.
She broke the mold. She burned the script. She dared to live and live hard.
Hardly any woman of the 20th century defined “fierce” like Frida Kahlo. And hardly any work captures the spirit of Frida as completely as this opera’s intricate and proud portrait of the iconic Mexican artist’s life.
A sensation in MOT’s 2014-2015 season, the Detroit production of Frida is considered one of the most powerful presentations of this authentic, inspiring opera. Frida returns with the original cast including Catalina Cuervo as Frida and Ricardo Herrera as Diego Rivera, and performed at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, the original home for MOT.
Synopsis: Try to put Frida in a box: she’ll break it. Force her into a mold? She’ll smash it. Pressure her to endure hardship, pain, injury, hospitals, capitalism—she’ll burn them as fuel for painting after painting of beautiful, provocative art. And don’t even bother telling her who she can love.
Hardly any woman of the 20th century defined “fierce” like Frida Kahlo. And hardly any work captures the spirit of Frida as completely as this opera’s intricate and proud portrait of the iconic Mexican artist.
The story starts with her school-girl days and traces the dramatic series of events that led to her decision to live as a painter and marry fellow artist Diego Rivera. The couples’ tempestuous relationship unfolds in all its shadows and light as they travel to America, unsuccessfully mix with the titans of industry, and bear the grief of a miscarriage far from home. Frida dives into her art, creating a body of work that tells the story of her body, her soul, and her mind. She dares the world to witness her dangerous vulnerability and intimidating vitality — even to her final, glorious moments.
A sensation in MOT’s 2014-2015 season, Frida returns with the original cast, including Catalina Cuervo as Frida and Ricardo Herrera as Diego Rivera. Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s score, written for chamber orchestra, mixes mariachi-style orchestrations, classical opera, and hints of Mexican folk songs for an authentic, alluring musical reflection of the woman and her art. Performed at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, MOT’s first home, this production honors a return to our roots.
Full of life, full of death, full of wonder, full of pain: Frida is an operatic ride of the most satisfying sort—a cyclorama of a woman who fulfills her most passionate desire to stay true to herself.
Featuring Baritone, Jesús Vicente Murillo, as Guillermo Kahlo, Petate Vendor, and Cachucha.
Tickets and Information can be found here.
Come hear two amazing Baritones/Basses and find out why they are the misunderstood bad guys of opera. Learn some interesting facts about Penn Square Music Festival as well as some interesting opera trivia that you can WOW your friends with your knowledge. Food & drink is available to be ordered.
Featuring Bass-Baritone, Jesús Vicente Murillo, and Baritone, Travis Lucas.
Tickets and information can be found here.
For one night only! Catch Faure’s incredible dedication to human mortality, with a full professional orchestra, and double chorus.
This is a joint collaboration between The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Chestnut Hill, PA), The First Presbytarian of Chestnut Hill, and The Keystone Boys Choir.
Conductor: Tyrone Whiting
Baritone Soloist: Jesús Vicente Murillo
Soprano Soloist: Gillian Booth
Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever written, prepare to enter the corrupt & wicked world of DON GIOVANNI (better known as Don Juan), a ladies’ man with no scruples who's determined to break as many hearts as possible. As the discarded women of his past unite to speak out against their offender, Don Giovanni seems destined to meet his ultimate fiery fate.
We are excited to introduce to our stage operatic baritone & rap-artist Khary "K. F. Jacques" Laurent in the title role & welcome back several former Gate City Bank Young Artists. Fargo native Director Austin Regan brings an edgy & exciting twist to this production that you won't want to miss!
(SUNG IN ITALIAN - with English Super Titles)
Tickets and Information can be found here
High comedy reigns in Rossini’s most famous work. Count Almaviva has fallen for the pretty Rosina but he wants to make sure she’s attracted to him, not his title. He disguises himself as a poor student and serenades her. Will this disguise and deception be enough to win the day for romance?
We are excited to be bringing Benjamin Taylor to our stage for the first time along with two of FM Opera’s favorite artists, Hilary Ginther and Joshua Kohl, for a truly special performance. Set designer Ann Gumpper (creator of last fall’s Hansel and Gretel) brings a traditional, yet colorful look to this show & director Eric Gibson always brings a whole lot of fun to the stage when he’s with us! We can’t wait for Figaro to bring the young lovers together to outwit Dr. Bartolo. Let the games begin!
Conductor/Music Director - Michael Ching
Director - Eric Gibson
Figaro - Benjamin Taylor
Rosina - Hilary Ginther
Count Almaviva - Joshua Kohl
Bartolo - Jesús Vicente Murillo
Basilio - Anthony Leathem
Don’t miss out on these two incredible evenings of Scenes and Arias, starring the Santa Fe 2020 Apprentice Artists. Only 2 performances, August 16 and 23!!!
Don’t miss out on this highly anticipated world premier of the operatic adaptation of David Henry Hwang’s revolutionary Broadway play; the latest production of Santa Fe Opera’s New Opera Initiative. Only 5 performances, August 1, 5, 14, 19, 26!!!
Come enjoy one of 6 Performances of Wagner’s groundbreaking masterpiece with Santa Fe Opera. July 18, 22, 31; August 6, 12, 18
