Mexican tenor Jorge Carlo Mariani has worked across Europe at Flemish Opera House, Hamburg State Opera and Bayreuther Festspiele. Highlight roles include Alfredo in La Traviata, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Don Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola.

Jorge speaks six languages fluently and is based in London.

A lyric tenor voice with a timber of special beauty, with a great variety of colours, sparkling high notes and extraordinary musicality.
— Francisco Araiza

Recordings

Mexican Tenor

Jorge Carlo Mariani

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 Fernánd Cortez by Spontini, Peter Quint from Turn of the Screw; Marzio from Mitridate Re di Ponto; Rinaldo from Armida; Tamino from Die Zauberflöte; 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.

Repertoire

Opera

Britten — Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint)
Donizetti —  Don Pasquale (Ernesto)
Donizetti — L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino)
Mozart — Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)
Mozart — Mitridate, rè di Ponto (Marzio)
Puccini — La Bohème (Rodolfo)
Rossini — La Cenerentola (Ramiro)
Rossini — Armida (Rinaldo)
Tchaikovsky — Eugen Onegin (Lensky)
Verdi — La Traviata (Alfredo)
Verdi — Rigoletto (Duke)

Oratorio

Bach — Magnificat
Handel — Messiah
Mendelssohn — Elias
Mozart — Coronation Mass
Orff — Carmina Burana
Rossini — Petite Messe Solenelle