This season at HGO, David Portillo performs the role of Dr. Richardson in Breaking the Waves, a role he created in the opera’s 2016 world premiere in Philadelphia. Previously for HGO, he performed the roles of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville (2018) and Tamino in The Magic Flute (2015), a role he has also performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Opera Frankfurt, and Pittsburgh Opera. During the 2023-24 season, Portillo’s engagements included Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, Jacquino in Fidelio at LA Philharmonic and on tour, Septimus in Theodora at Theater an der Wien, and Pirro in Ermione at Washington Concert Opera. Engagements during the 2024-25 season include Tamino in The Magic Flute holiday presentation at the Metropolitan Opera, the roles of Natura, Pain, and Furia in La Calisto at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Bénédict in Béatrice et Bénédict with Irish National Opera, and Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano with Haymarket Opera in Chicago. Other recent roles include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Japan’s Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Nadir in The Pearl Fishers at Austin Opera, Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Dallas Opera, Tonio in La fille du regiment at Minnesota Opera, and the title role of Jephtha with Jane Glover conducting the Music of the Baroque. At the Metropolitan Opera, Portillo has performed Steuermann in The Flying Dutchman, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Eduardo in Ades’s The Exterminating Angel, Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Jacquino in Fidelio. He is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where his roles have included Arbace in Idomeneo, David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Andres in Wozzeck.