The young soprano Dennis Orellana was born in San Pedro Sula (Honduras) in 2000. He began his musical training as a trombonist in the youth symphony orchestra of his hometown and began vocal studies at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid in 2019. He also studied with Emanuela Salucci at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Carolina Alcaide in Madrid and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

In September 2022 he appeared at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival as Zeffiro in Albinoni’s Il nascimento dell’Aurora, as Ernesto in a concert performance of Giovanni Bononcini’s Griselda, and in 2023 in a solo concert.

He has also appeared as Ernesto in Wrocław, as Berardo in Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo at the Dortmund Konzerthaus and La Scala in Milan, and as Alessandro in Caldara’s Il Venceslao in Gliwice and at the Theater an der Wien.

At the Escuela Superior de Canto in 2021 Dennis Orellana sang the role of Amor in the university production La selva sin amor, a new composition of a 17th century Spanish libretto, and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro).

In August of the same year, he made his professional debut as Berardo at the Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid, appearing on stage alongside singers such as Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva and Franco Fagioli.

Other recent engagements have taken him to the Wilhelma Theatre in Stuttgart as Moth (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and to the Salzburg Landestheater as Ramiro (La finta giardiniera). In 2023, he debuted in Purcell’s The Indian Queen under Teodor Currentzis at the Salzburg Festival.