In the 2024/25 season, Mr. Portillo will sing Tamino in The Magic Flute holiday presentation at the Metropolitan Opera, the roles of Natura, Pain and Furia in La Calisto at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Dr. Richardson in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Houston Grand Opera, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Bénédict in Béatrice et Bénédict with Irish National Opera, Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano with Haymarket Opera in Chicago, and in concert, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the San Antonio Symphony and Septimius in Handel’s Theodora with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque.
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David Portillo

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Handel’s Hercules on Tour – March 2026
The English Concert return to North America with a major Handel opera project. This time, the lesser-known Hercules HWV60, directed by Harry Bicket, a noted…
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