
Mario Rojas
“It was tenor Mario Rojas who captured the audience's hearts. Rojas' warm and ingratiating voice prevailed.” −Steven Winn, San Francisco Classical Voice.
Mario
Rojas
BIO
Tenor Mario Rojas originally from Torreón, Mexico, Rojas is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center of Lyric Opera of Chicago as well as an alumnus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has sung Rodolfo/La Bohème at Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes. In Lyric’s 2018/19 season, Rojas stepped in for an ailing colleague to sing Alfredo/La Traviata. In 2019 he performed a concert for 30,000 people in his home town of Torreon with Placido Domingo. Among the honors Rojas has received are 2020 Luminarts Foundation - Fellowship, 2018 William M. Sullivan Foundation Award, third place in the 2018 Dallas Opera Vocal Competition, winner of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Illinois District Auditions, second place in the East Bay Opera League Competition, the Marta Eggerth Kiepura Award in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Completion, third place in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, the Emerging Singers Award in the Opera Index Vocal Competition, and most recently the Luminarts Foundation Fellowship Award. He has been heard at the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria recital series and Kentucky Opera’s Sidecar cabaret series.
SCHEDULE
April
20
Jenufa Janacek
Steva
Theater Capitole
April 20, 22, 24 & 26 2022
May
11
Elixir of Love Donizetti
Nemorino
Capitole Massimo Bellini Catania
May 2022
July
Nabucco Verdi
Ismaele (cover)
Teatro Real Madrid
July 2022
Sept
Romeo et Juliette Gounod
Romeo
Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari
Sept. 2022
N E W S
Debut as Steva, in Janacek's Jenufa as well as his European and French debut.