He is the current great voice of Mexico, an international ambassador of bel canto who also likes to tackle popular song. Javier Camarena left his engineering career years ago to become one of the best lyric tenors in the world. "The prince of tenors", according to the New York Time.
At 48 years old, Javier Camarena is in his prime. Considered one of the essential names of bel canto, the Mexican lyric tenor has distinctions such as the Opera News Award (2020), the Fine Arts Opera Medal, the ISPA Distinguished Artist Award and the Mozart Medal (the latter three in 2019), and treasures a live resume that boasts performances at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Scala in Milan, the Zurich Opera, the Metropolitan House in New York or the National Auditorium of Mexico. The most sumptuous stages in the world. Giving a good account of his versatility and his wide range of interests (he is passionate about painting, cooking or cinema), he recently published two albums of very different nature: "La voz de México" (2023), a tribute to the great composers of his country, such as José Alfredo Jiménez, Álvaro Carrillo, María Grever or Armando Manzanero (with collaborations by Lila Downs, Jesús Navarro, Eugenia León or Tania Libertad), and "Sogno Tosti Songs" (2024), a tribute to the 19th century Italian composer Francesco Paolo Tosti, by the hand of Ángel Rodríguez.
