Born in the Azores on the island of Flores, the Portugese baritone José Corvelo began his singing studies at the Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada with Imaculada Pacheco and at the Conservatório Regional de Angra do Heroísmo with Luísa Alcobía. He completed his advanced singing studies at Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, in Porto, Portugal, with José de Oliveira Lopes.

He attended master-classes under the guidance of Fernanda Correia, Oliveira Lopes, Rudolf Knoll, Lamara Tchekónia, Liliana Bizineche, Ambra Vespesiani, Ettore Nova, Enza Ferrari and frequently with Jorge Vaz de Carvalho.

José Corvelo is now one of the most sought-after Portuguese baritones. In 2000 he began a regular collaboration as a soloist with Circulo Portuense de Ópera and with Orquestra do Norte. There he made important debuts in Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona", Britten's "The Little Sweep", William Walton's "The Bear", Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro", "Don Giovanni" and "Die Zauberflöte", Verdi's "La Traviata" and "Rigoletto", Donizetti's "Don Pasquale", Bizet's "Carmen", Puccini's "La Bohème", "Tosca" and Madama Butterfly, and others.

He took part in the world première of Eurico Carrapatoso's A Floresta (The Forest, 2004, Teatro São Luis, Lisboa - co-production with Teatro Nacional de São Carlos) and recorded in DVD Carrapatoso's O Lobo Diogo e o mosquito Valentim (Diogo the Wolf and Valentim the Mosquito, Casa da Música, Porto).

His vast concert repertoire includes Telemann's Magnificats in G and C, Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art", Bach's Magnificat BWV 243 and St. John Passion, Händel's "Messiah", Mozart's Requiem, Coronation Mass and "Litaniae Lauretanae" K.109, Beethoven's Symphony no. 9, Schubert's Mass in G, Fauré's Requiem, Rossini's "Stabat Mater", Orff's "Carmina Burana".

José Corvelo has appeared on the stages of Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Rivoli Teatro, Coliseu de Lisboa, Coliseu do Porto, Teatro S.Luís, Teatro da Trindade, Teatro Camões, among others. He has performed in operatic presentations and concerts with Orquestra do Norte, Orquestra do Algarve, Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, Remix Ensemble, Orquestra Portuguesa das Escolas de Música, Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, Orquestra Sinfónica da Póvoa de Varzim, Orquestra Artave, Ensemble Barroco Europeu, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Orquestra de Câmara de Coimbra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.

He has sung with such well-known singers as: Daniela Bruera, Rubens Pallizari, Leo An, Elisabete Matos, Jose Julian Frontal, Bojidar Nikolov, Raffaele Costantini, Tinuke Olafimihan, Lara Martins, Tim Evans-Jones, Lorenzo Muzzi, Dora Rodrigues, Ana Paula Russo, Ana Ester Neves, Elvira Ferreira, José Manuel Araújo, Carlos Guilherme Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, Wolfgang Bünten, Annamaria Dell'Oste, Annunziata Vestri, Guillermo Orozco, Luís Rodrigues, Elmira Veda, Lia Altavilla, Sandra Medeiros, Alejandro Escobar, Teresa Gardner, José Oliveira Lopes, Terézia Kruziaková, Mário João Alves, Paride Pandolfo, Ivan Momirov, Boris Martinovitch, Mikolaj Zalasinsky, Iwona Nosczyk, Dimitra Theodossiou, Stefano Secco, Carlo Cigni, Nidia Palácios, Oriana Kurteshi and many others.

He has worked with distinguished scene directors such as Mietta Corli, Tim Coleman, Joseph Franconi Lee, Ítalo Nunziata, Luca Veggetti, Norma Graça-Silvestre, Paulo Matos, Carlos Avilez, Jorge Rodrigues, Maria Emília Correia, Orlando Arocha, Carla Lopes, Andrea Lupi, Stuart Hopps, Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, Nuno M. Cardoso, Nuno Carinhas, Luis Miguel Cintra and conductors such as Marc Tardue, Julian Reynolds, Ferreira Lobo, Félix Carrasco, Osvaldo Ferreira, Reynald Giovaninetti, Martin André, Zsolt Hamar, NikSa Bareza, Roberto Manfredini, Nicola Giusti, João Paulo Santos, C.Bochmann, Ivo Cruz, Rui Massena, Cesário Costa, Gunther Arglebe, António V. Lourenço, Roberto Perez, Nicola Giusti, Johannes Willig, Marko Letonja and many others.

Future engagements include Mozart D.Giovanni (Leporello), Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Bizet Carmen (Escamillo), Mozart Requiem, and John Rutter's Mass of the Children, Philip Glass In the Penal Colony.

CONTACTS

Web. www.josecorvelo.com
Email: josecorvelo5@msn.com
Email: josecorvelo5@gmail.com
Cell. (+ 00 351) 917 158 497
Cell. (+ 00 351) 968 092 933

26 October 2006