A native of Piedras Negras, Mexico, Eleazar Rodriguez is a recipient of the Placido Domingo voice scholarship given by SIVAM (Sociedad Internacional de Valores de Arte Mexicano), Mexico’s most renowned young artist programme and is a top prize winner in the Carlo Morelli National Competition in Mexico City. In 2011-12 he joins the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karslruhe singing leading roles, including in Iopas in a new production of Berlioz’ Les Troyens. In september 2012, Mr. Rodriguez will perform Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit. In the 2010-11 season he was a member of the Ensemble at Theater Heidelberg (Cornelius Meister, GMD), where he gave acclaimed performances as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Jaquino in a new production of Fidelio, and Cassio and Rodrigo in Otello.

Mr. Rodriguez was a member of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program in 2009 and 2010, where he performed Federico in L’Amico Fritz. He earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he performed roles including Tom Rakewell in The Rakes Progress, the title role in Cavalli’s L’Egisto, as well as Tamino. He received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” in opera from the San Francisco Conservatory in 2007 and 2010. He also holds a Music Diploma from the Escuela Superior de Musica de la Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila. He studied with César Ulloa in San Francisco.

In 2008 Mr. Rodriguez appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center, as part of the Center’s conservatory project series. He has performed Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Fremont Opera and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the 2006-07 season he sang lead roles in the world premieres of three operas in San Francisco: Salvador Dali in David Conte’s opera Famous, Lara in America Tropical, also by David Conte, and the title role in Young Caesar by Lou Harrison. He has also been heard in concerts and recitals throughout Mexico, including at the Teatro del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

His operatic repertoire also includes Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Fenton in Falstaff, and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola. His concert repertoire includes the tenor solos in the Coronation Mass and Requiem Mass by W.A. Mozart, Petite Messe Solennelle by G. Rossini and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.