Biography

Juan Jesús Rodríguez is considered by critics and audiences alike to be one of the leading Verdi baritones on the current opera scene.

Recently, he was awarded the best male Verdi voice prize at the Tutto Verdi international Awards, granted by ABAO as the closing event of the “Tutto Verdi” cycle.

His career as a leading baritone has taken him to what are considered the great temples of opera, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House in London, Los Angeles Opera, San Carlo in Naples, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Regio di Torino, Massimo di Palermo, Rome Opera, Marseille Opera, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Bregenz Festival, Teatro Real, Liceo, Teatro Euskalduna, Palau de les Arts, T. Maestranza, T. Campoamor, Beijing Opera, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Zurich, among others.

Among his most representative roles are: Rigoletto, Simone Boccanegra, Conte di Luna (Trovatore), Germont (Traviata), Yago (Otello), Nabucco, Macbeth, Rodrigo (D. Carlo), Rodrigue (D. Carlos), Renato (Ballo in Maschera), Ezio (Attila), Montforte (Vespri siciliani), Ford (Falstaff), Miller (Luisa Miller), D.Carlo( Ernani),Giaccomo (Giovanna D´Arco), Gusmano (Alzira), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Tonio (Pagliacci), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Riccardo (I Puritani), Duce di Nottingham (Roberto Devereux), Marcello (Boheme), Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni.

Throughout his professional career, he has participated in important events in Spanish opera, such as the Opening of the Liceu in Barcelona, as well as in the Opening of the Teatro Real in Madrid with the opera Divinas Palabras de García Abril.

A great lover and staunch defender of the Spanish repertoire, he has embodied the leading baritones of Zarzuela and Spanish operas at the Teatro Nacional de la Zarzuela and its tours throughout Spain, such as:

Marina, La Tabernera del Puerto, Luisa Fernanda, La Dolores, El Soto del Parral, La Revoltosa, La Leyenda del Beso, Black el payaso, Caserío, La Revoltosa, Los Gavilanes, La Rosa del Azafrán, Los amantes de Teruel.

Throughout his career he has collaborated with renowned conductors such as:Zubin Mehta, Gómez Martínez, López Cobos, Lorin Maazel, Luisotti, Renzetti, Marco Armiliato, Daniel Oren, as well as stage directors of the caliber of McVicar, Deflo, John Fox, Carsen.

His upcoming commitments will take him to Marseille (Nabucco), Bilbao (Trovatore), Madrid (Luisa Fernanda), London (Traviata).