Rafael Davila

Recent engagements for Puerto Rican tenor Rafael Dávila include his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Don Jose in CARMEN, as Des Grieux in Puccini’s MANON LESCAUT for San Francisco Opera, Liceo de Barcelona and Opera de Valencia, with Lyric Opera of Chicago in the premiere of Jimmy Lopez’s BEL CANTO, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and the Macerata Festival in Italy, and his debut at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg last year in a Zarzuela Gala Concert. This season Rafael is back at the Metropolitan Opera for the fourth consecutive season after his debut in 2017 to be involved in the production of TOSCA as well as a new production of Verdi’s DON CARLOS. Apart from the Metropolitan Opera in NY, his emblematic role of Don Jose in CARMEN has also b