“Conducted by the exuberant and attentive Jorge Parodi” (Opera News)

Internationally acclaimed conductor Jorge Parodi has led several productions at The Atlanta Opera, Opera Tampa, Savannah Opera, Buenos Aires Lírica, The Banff Centre and The Juilliard School.  Recent credits include his debut at New York City Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Opera Orlando, and the World Premiéres of Coppola’s Lady Swanwhite for Opera Tampa, and John Musto’s Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt in a coproduction of On Site Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric’s Unlimited and Pittsburgh Opera-.

Maestro Parodi has worked with the Chautauqua Symphony, the NHK Symphony, the Castleton Festival Orchestra, the Ensemble Zipoli for the American Baroque, the Juilliard Pre College Orchestra and the Orquesta del Conservatorio Nacional (Argentina), among others.

Maestro Parodi was appointed General and Artistic Director of Opera Hispánica, the only company in the United Sates focused on the Hispanic vocal repertoire and on the Latino perspective.  Also he is the Music Director of the Senior Opera Theatre at the Manhattan School of Music and he has been a faculty member at The Juilliard School for over a decade.  His work with MSM SOT was the subject of a featured interview in Opera News.

Mr. Parodi is the Founder and Music Director of the Tokyo International Vocal Arts Academy Summer Workshop and he has been a faculty member at The Juilliard School for over a decade and is Vocal Coach of the premier Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division.  He has offered master classes at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Manhattan School of Music (as coteacher with opera legend Martina Arroyo), the Escuela Superior de Canto (Madrid) and the Kunitachi Music College (Tokyo).