Tenor Mario Arévalo, a native of El Salvador, received his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from Purchase College School of the Arts. Mr. Arévalo recently was a National finalist in The National Opera Association Young Artist Competition 2008, in which he was awarded The Legacy Award. He won Honorary Mention in the Five Towns Young Artist Competition and was a semi-finalist in The Paul Straney Competition with the Long Island Masterworks Association.
On the operatic stage, he performed such roles as Le Petit Villard with the Boston University Symphony, A Bureaucrat in the American Premiere of The Hostage by Craig Wick, Emperor Nero in the first-place winner 2008 for L’Incoronazione di Poppea from The National Opera Association, Monastatos in The Magic Flute, directed by Albert Sherman, and Schumann’s Conrad in the American premiere of Genoveva in the summer of 2006. He has been Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Aumonier in first-place winner opera from National Opera Association for The Dialogues of the Carmelites, King Kasper in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Aeneas/Sailor in Dido and Aeneas. Last spring he made his NYC debut with the Purchase Opera at the Wall-to-Wall Opera in Symphony space. This summer he will be making an appearance in his native country as a soloist with Opera El Salvador.
Mr. Arévalo is attending Boston University as a candidate for his Master in Music under the tutelage of Ms. Penelope Bitzas.