Javier Arrey
Biography
A graduate of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist program, Chilean baritone Javier Arrey was a finalist at the 2009 Cardiff Singer of the World competition and winner of the CulturArte prize at the 2011 Operalia competition in Moscow. He made an acclaimed debut under Lorin Maazel as Iago (Otello) at the Castleton Festival and continued that association in summer 2014 in the title role of Don Giovanni.
Engagements this season, and last, include Marcello (La boheme) for Washington National Opera, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) for the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Alphonse (La favorite) with Washington Concert Opera under Antony Walker, Masetto (Don Giovanni) with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Markus Stenz and Carmina Burana with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra under Christopher Warren-Green. He will make his Wiener Staatsoper debut next season.