Jorge Navarro Colorado studied classical singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and completed his training in the Britten-Pears and Samling programs.
In the 2024/25 season he has appeard in Il ritorno d’Ulissein patria and Dido and Aeneas with Accademia Bizantina at the Ravenna Festival, Goffredo in Rinaldo at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, Terradellas’s Giuseppe riconosciuto with Vespres d’Arnadí at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana (PMC) and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid (ANM), a concert of Christmas music with the ensemble Arcangelo in Antwerp, Cambridge and the Wigmore Hall in London, Scarlatti’s La santissima annunziata with Europa Galante as part of the Halle Handel Festival, Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine with Coro Costanzo Porta in Fez, and Cavalli’s L’Ercole amante at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona.
Highlights of recent seasons include his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Telemaco in Monteverdi s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Fabio Biondi, including two concerts at the ANM and the PMC, Mozart’s Requiem with the Barcelona and Catalonia Symphony Orchestra (OBC) and Trevor Pinnock in Barcelona, his debut at the Teatra La Fenice in Venice as Gualtiero in Vivaldi’s Griselda under the baton of Diego Fasolis, Tempo in Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at Buxton Festival with Early Opera Company, the baroque recital Arias for Ballino with Opera Settecento in the London Handel Festival (LHF), the tenor roles in Handel’s opera Lotario, Rodrigo and Ariodante at the Göttingen Handel Festival conducted by Laurence Cummings, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and the title role in Manuel de Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the OBC at the PMC and with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla (OBS) at the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, The Messiah with various orchestras like Vespres d’Arnadí, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, and OBS in the main auditoriums in Spain, Rinaldo with Capella Cracoviensis at the HHF, Oronte in Alcina with Lautten Compagney touring Germany and Switzerland, de Falla’s La Vida Breve with ADDA Sinfónica, Bajazet in Tamerlano with English Touring Opera, Petrus in a staged version of Handel’s Brockes Passion at Halle Oper as part of HHF and Scipione with Early Opera Company at LHF.
His discography includes Handel’s operas Lotario and Rodrigo, recorded live at the Göttingen Festival (Accent), Cleofida/Poro by Telemann/Handel with Il Gusto Barocco (CPO), the album German Cantatas for Voice and Virtuoso Violin with Ensemble Diderot and Johannes Pramsohler (Audax) and Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge, a recital album of arias and duets with Randall Scotting and the Academy of Ancient Music led by Laurence Cummings (Signum).
