Javier Palacios

Javier Palacios sang in an international open-air production of Verdi's Rigoletto. A tenor from Valencia, he began in the choir school of Nuestra Señora Virgen de los Desamparados and completed his training at the conservatory of that city. He has taken prizes at the Logroño singing competition and at the Luis Mariano, Manuel Ausensi, AsLiCo and Pedro Lavirgen competitions. His roles include Alfredo, the Duke of Mantua, Edgardo, Nemorino, Cavaradossi, Ismaele and Cassio, with leading parts in Roberto Devereux and La rondine and, in the Spanish repertory, Marina, La Dolores, Luisa Fernanda and La venta de los gatos. He has sung at La Fenice and the Teatro Malibran in Venice, the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, the Ponchielli in Cremona, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Maestranza in Seville under Plácido Domingo, the Palacio de la Ópera in La Coruña and the Euskalduna in Bilbao, and in Zurich, Athens, Tel Aviv, Nuremberg, St Gallen, Toulon, Saint-Étienne, Santiago de Chile, Caracas and Tokyo. He toured Switzerland, Germany, Russia, the Baltic republics and Ukraine with Montserrat Caballé and recorded with her for BMG on the disc Con todo mi corazón.