Performance Database

Jorge Rodríguez-Norton

 

Born in Asturias, Spain, , he began his musical studies specializing in piano. He has a degree in Music Lyrical Singing from the Joaquín Rodrigo Higher Conservatory in Valencia and a BA in Plastic Arts and Design from the Oviedo School of Art.
In 2010 and 2013 he was awarded at the Logroño City International Singing Contest.

He has performed at major festivals and theatres such as the Wagnerian Festival Theater in Bayreuth-Germany, Teatro Real of Madrid, the Opera Theatre in Lausanne-Switzerland, Gran Teatro del Liceu of Barcelona, the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo, Euskalduna Palace and  Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Palau de Les Arts and Palau de la Música in Valencia, Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid, Teatros del Canal Madrid, Teatro Mayor in Bogotá and Teatro Romano in Mérida, under the baton of great masters such as Christian Thielemann, Marco Armiliato, Nicola Luisotti, Evelino Pidò, Valery Gergiev, Axel Kober, Josep Pons, Maximiano Valdés, Paolo Arrivabeni, James Gaffigan, Guillermo García Calvo, Miguel Roa, José Miguel Perez-Sierra, Álvaro Albiach, Óliver Díaz, Francesco Ciampa, Josep Caballé and Ramón Tebar among others and with the artistic directors Emilio Sagi, Giancarlo del Monaco, Tobias Kratzer, David McVicar, Damiano Michieletto, Alfred Kirchner, Gustavo Tambascio, Paco Azorín, Hugo de Ana, Mario Martone, Lluís Pascual, Daniel Slater, Joan Anton Rechi, Mariame Clément etc…

He participates in the opera titles Tristan Und Isolde interpreting Sailor and Shepherd, Tannhäuser with Heinrich der Schreiber, Froh in Das Rheingold, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Doctor Cajus in Falstaff, Gaston in La Traviata, Normanno in Lucia de Lammermoor, Harry in Fanciulla del West, Maestro di ballo in Manon Lescaut, Federico di Frengel in Stiffelio, Bastian in Bastian und Bastienne, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, the Jude I in Salomé, Perrückenmacher in Ariandne Auf Naxos, Primo Judice in Ballo in Maschera among others.

He has also extensively cultivated the Zarzuela genre, starring in the European premiere of Tres Sombreros de copa by Ricardo Llorca and participating in productions such as Ricardo in La del manojo de rosas, El Rey in El Rey que Rabió, Antonio in Maruxa, El Casto José de La Corte de Faraón, Don Luis at El Barberillo de Lavapiés, Txomin at El Caserío, Javier at Luisa Fernanda, Juanito at Las Golondrinas, Chamaco at Don Gil de Alcalá, Serafín at Agua, Azucarillos and Aguardiente etc.

He has sung in various concert seasons, performing Die Schöpfung by Haydn, Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky/Taneyev at the Badajoz Auditorium, Intende Voce and Messe in G by Schubert at the Zaragoza Auditorium, Choral Fantasie by Beethoven.

Engagements in Bayreuth

Year Opera Part
2024 Parsifal 3. Knappe
2023 Parsifal 3. Knappe
2023 Tristan und Isolde Ein Hirt
2023 Tannhäuser Heinrich der Schreiber
2022 Tristan und Isolde Ein Hirt
2022 Tannhäuser Heinrich der Schreiber
2021 Tannhäuser Heinrich der Schreiber
2019 Tannhäuser Heinrich der Schreiber