Javier Camarena started off his 2018/19 season at the Gran Teatro del Liceu as Arturo in I Puritani before returning to the Metropolitan Opera for The Pearl Fishers – which he also performed in Bilbao later that season – and The Daughter of the Regiment. In the 2021/22 season, he performs Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. His appearances for the 2022/23 season include Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore with the Metropolitan Opera.

Last season, as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, he became only the second singer in Metropolitan Opera history to perform encores in multiple productions at the house, after the audience demanded a repeat of his aria “E se fia che ad altro oggetto.” This followed his triumph in 2014, when he became only the third singer in 70 years to give an encore on that stage, having stopped the house in consecutive performances of Prince Ramiro’s aria “Si ritrovarla io guiro” in La Cenerentola. Camarena went on to repeat the same feat in The Daughter of the Regiment at Madrid’s Teatro Real, marking only the second time that a singer had given an encore there since its reopening.

Praised for his burnished tone, gleaming high notes, flawless coloratura, and veracious portrayals, he regularly appears in leading roles alongside today’s foremost stars at the world’s top opera houses, and was the face of Opera News’s 80th anniversary edition this past January.

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