Joshua Guerrero in Recital

From: Las Vegas, Nevada. LA Opera: Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor (2014, debut); leading roles include Count Almaviva in The Ghosts of Versailles (2015), Greenhorn in Moby-Dick (2015), Macduff in Macbeth (2016); recital (2025). He is an alumnus of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program (2012-15) and a 2021 recipient of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award.

Mexican-American tenor Joshua Guerrero’s 2023/24 season includes debuts with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Mefistofele) and Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madama Butterfly) and returns to the Vienna State Opera (Il Trittico), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Madama Butterfly), and Dutch National Opera (Il Trittico). On the concert stage he will debut with Orchestre National de Lille (La Bohème) and return to San Diego Opera for a concert with soprano Andrea Carroll.

Future engagements include debuts with Gran Teatre del Liceu and Opéra National de Lyon and returns to Dutch National Opera, Vienna State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, and Houston Grand Opera.

Last season he made debuts at the Vienna State Opera (Macbeth), Bavarian State Opera (Manon Lescaut), Opéra National de Paris (La Bohème), and returned to Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Madama Butterfly), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Don Carlos), Oper Frankfurt (Manon Lescaut), and Santa Fe Opera (Tosca). Joshua began the 2021/22 season with a debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in a new David McVicar production of Macbeth followed by debuts with Madrid's Teatro Real (La Bohème), Dutch National Opera (Tosca), Salzburg Festival (Il Tabarro), and a return to San Diego Opera for a cinematic adaptation of Daniel Catan’s Rappaccini's Daughter. Additional recent engagements include his debuts at Royal Opera House Covent Garden (La Bohème), Orquestra Gulbenkian (Night at the Opera), and a return to San Diego Opera (La Bohème). Joshua debuted at Oper Frankfurt in a new production of Manon Lescaut conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and directed by Àlex Ollé, and returned to Florida Grand Opera (Madama Butterfly). In concert, he appeared with soprano Ailyn Pérez in One Amazing Night presented by San Diego Opera and a U.S. tour of the Bel Canto Trio.

Mr. Guerrero has performed with Washington National Opera (La Traviata), Houston Grand Opera (Florencia en el Amazonas), and Canadian Opera Company (La Bohème). Additionally, he was the tenor soloist in the Bel Canto Trio’s 70th anniversary tour. He made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in a new production of Madama Butterfly and returned to the Santa Fe Opera in the same opera. He was seen in Rigoletto for his debuts with the Canadian Opera Company and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as his first performances of Lucia di Lammermoor at Florida Grand Opera. Mr. Guerrero returned to the LA Opera in his role debut as Macduff in Macbeth with James Conlon conducting which was released on Sony DVD. He debuted in the same role in the Barrie Kosky production at Opernhaus Zürich with Gianandrea Noseda conducting and made his UK debut at the English National Opera in Jonathan Miller’s famous production of Rigoletto. In concert, he toured Europe with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolivar Orchestra singing Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and sang Haydn's Creation with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He made his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut with Marin Alsop in Beethoven Symphony No. 9, was a featured soloist at the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie Hall, and was heard in a concert of opera arias and duets with soprano Joyce El-Khoury and the NDR Radiophilharmonie, which was broadcast on television throughout Germany.

At LA Opera, Mr. Guerrero sang in Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick and in a new production of Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles. He made his European operatic debut in Simon Boccanegra at Opéra National de Bordeaux and L’elisir d’amore at Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. He debuted at the Santa Fe Opera in Roméo et Juliette. In concert, Mr. Guerrero has been seen with Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as the Verdi Requiem with the Santa Fe Symphony. He made his role debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème with Gustavo Dudamel and the Sim​ón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in Caracas.

Mr. Guerrero is a graduate of LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and a recipient of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. He is a second prize-winner in the Operalia Competition, a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant recipient, and a Grammy Award winner for LA Opera’s recording of The Ghosts of Versailles (Best Opera Recording). Film and television credits include the Academy Award-winning animated feature film Coco by Disney/Pixar.

A dynamic pianist of immense versatility, Peter Walsh brings the highest standard of pianism to his multifaceted career as a pianist and vocal coach. Walsh has been recognized by Opera News for his “especially solid and prominent playing” and “warmly expressive” touch. A select member of LA Opera’s full-time music staff, he works closely with Music Director James Conlon on mainstage productions in addition to coaching the company’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists. He has played for more than 40 opera productions at LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Omaha, Utah Opera, Central City Opera and Wolf Trap Opera. His work has led to collaborations with renowned conductors Roberto Abbado, Joseph Colaneri, James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Jane Glover, Eun-Sun Kim, Speranza Scappucci, Robert Spano and Patrick Summers, among others.

In the fall of 2023, Walsh released a debut album for Lexicon Classics in collaboration with mezzo-soprano Abi Levis, entitled Songs of Dominick Argento. For LA Opera's 2023/24 season, he was a member of the music staff for Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, William Grant Still’s Highway 1, USA, Alexander Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf and for La Traviata, in addition to Handel’s Partenope at San Francisco Opera. Additionally, he was the keyboard continuo player for performances of Partenope in San Francisco and The Barber of Seville in Los Angeles. Walsh additionally collaborated with soprano Diana Newman in a recital of American song at El Camino College in September 2023.

Walsh began the 2022/23 season by joining the music staff of San Francisco Opera at the invitation of Music Director Eun-Sun Kim for the highly-anticipated world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra. At LA Opera, he played and coached productions of Tosca, Pelléas and Mélisande and Otello. He performed with the LA Opera Orchestra as orchestral keyboardist for Tosca, with the Los Angeles Ballet for The Nutcracker, and at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for Michael Giacchino’s score to The Batman, live with motion picture.

Walsh has been presented in recital at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Legacy at Carnegie Hall, by Vocal Arts DC, Ravinia, the Broad Stage, and Sundays Live at LACMA. He has collaborated in performance with Grammy-nominated baritone Rod Gilfry, legendary mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick, as well as many classical singers from his own generation including Mane Galoyan, Joshua Guerrero, Abi Levis, Diana Newman, Aryeh Nussbaum-Cohen, Zoie Reams, and Liv Redpath. He has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, San Diego Symphony, and Houston Grand Opera Orchestra.

As a soloist, Walsh was awarded top prizes in the MTAC State Solo Competition, the MTNA Young Artists’ National Competition, and was a finalist in the Loeb/Louviere International Competition. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and a doctorate of musical arts degrees in piano performance from the USC Thornton School of Music where he studied with Lucinda Carver and Kevin Fitz-Gerald. He is an alumnus of the training programs at the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. Walsh is a graduate of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at LA Opera and the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio.

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