soprano
O artyście
The young and talented soprano Dennis Orellana was born in 2000 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He began his music studies in the San Pedro Sula Youth Symphonic Orchestra as a trombonist with Alfonso Flores. He combined his singing training with his university studies in computer science and digital design. In early 2021 he made his debut in Madrid with the role of Amor in the premiere of La selva sin amor and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. He made his professional and international debut as Berardo in Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo in August 2021 at the Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo del Escorial. He shared the stage with the likes of Max Emanuel Cenčic, Julia Lezhneva, Franco Fagioli and Markellos Chryssicos conducted Armonia Atenea. In February 2022 he sang Moth in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Wilhelma Theater in Stuttgart.
Dennis Orellana took part in several productions from the 2022/23 season on. He appeared as Zeffiro in Albinoni’s Il nascimento dell’Aurora and as Ernesto in Bononcini’s Griselda at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, as Ernesto in Griselda in Wrocław, Berardo in Carlo il Calvo in Dortmund and at Scala di Milano (house debut), Ramiro (La finta giardinera) at Salzburger Landestheater and Alessandro in Caldara’s Venceslao in Gliwice and at the Theater an der Wien (house debut). During the season 23/24 Dennis Orellana sang roles like Sifare (Mitridate, re di Ponto) at the opera houses in Brussels, Moms and Namur, the title role of Teseo at the Handel Festival Halle and in Wrocław, Darius (Nebucadnezar) at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen and Theater Magdeburg and Hunapuh (The Indian Queen) with Salzburger Festspiele. He regularly works with conductors like Teodor Currentzis, George Petrou, Gabriel Venzago, Benjamin Bayl, Dorothee Oberlinger and Martyna Pastuszka.