Isaac Hurtado,
Tenor

*Golub and Alexander Fellow

Recent performances for Mr. Hurtado include the title role in Candide with Festival Opera in 2005 for which his performance received critical acclaim. Mr. Hurtado had previously debuted with the company in 2004 as Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.

Prior to his Festival Opera debut, Mr. Hurtado was heard as an apprentice artist with Central City Opera where he performed the role of Roger Doremus in a rare production of Lee Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke (later featured across the country on NPR’s World of Opera), and covered the role of Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For Opera North, Mr. Hurtado sang the roles of Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Gonsalve in L’heure Espagnole.  For two seasons he was an apprentice artist with Utah Festival Opera, performing roles in Gianni Schicchi and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Mr. Hurtado has also performed with Opera Circle of Cleveland, Martinez Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy. 

Selected honors for Mr. Hurtado include winning the 2003 Hannah Beaulieu Career Development Award at Florida State University, and being named a 2003 national finalist in the Heinz-Rehfuss Singing Actor Competition. He received his musical training at Florida State University under the tutelage of Stanford Olsen, at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Brigham Young University. 

*Mr. Hurtado's artist residency is made possible in part by Fellowship Grants from Howard Golub and Katharine and George Alexander.