Eric Jurenas

American countertenor Eric Jurenas has been featured on stages around the world. Recent engagements include productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, the Irish National Opera, Frankfurt Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, the Glimmerglass Festival, and Opera Lafayette ranging from Handel’s Oreste, and Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica, to Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando, Brett Dean’s Hamlet, and Avner Dorman’s Wahnfried. He also performed on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated play Farinelli and the King. Other highlights include a world premiere work by Aribert Reimann, Sinnig zwischen beyden Welten, with Daniel Barenboim at the piano at the Barenboim-Said-Akademie in Berlin, and dolce la morte by Suzanne Farrin with the International Contemporary Ensemble at the METLiveArts series. Jurenas was most recently seen on stages throughout Ireland in The First Child by Donnacha Dennehy. He received his M.M. from The Juilliard School and his B.M. from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.