Salazar, Moisés

(Santa Ana, California) 

Mexican-American tenor Moisés Salazar is building a reputation for rich romantic sound and a broad range of vocal color. A first year Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, his recent appearance as Pinkerton in Merola Opera Program’s Grand Finale concert earned a rave from the San Francisco Chronicle, noting his “gleaming, powerful account” growing from “restrained but resonant” to “forcefully expressive…ever-greater heights of full-throated ardor.”

In the current season, Salazar makes an exciting San Francisco Opera house and role debut as B.F. Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, sings Aldeano in the SFO premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego, and covers the role of Apparition of a Youth in Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten.

A former Palm Beach Opera Benenson Young Artist, Salazar performed roles including Remendado in Carmen, 1st Priest and 1st Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, and Tebaldo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi, which Palm Beach Daily News praised as “the vocal highlight of the production…Salazar played Tebaldo with the ease and perfect diction of a well-seasoned professional.”

Highlights of the 2020 season were to include Elder Gleaton in Susannah and Frank in Awakenings, both at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where Salazar was as a Gerdine Young Artist in 2020 and 2021. He was a 2022 Merola Opera Program participant, and has earned industry recognition through numerous competitions, including prizes from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, where he progressed to the Great Lakes Regionals as a Michigan District winner, Pasadena Vocal Competition, and Opera Index Vocal Competition.

Salazar first found his voice with his family’s mariachi band, Trio Los Salazar, and is currently creating a concert series dedicated to Mexican folk music.