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Joan Martín-Royo Biography

Born in Barcelona, he studied composition and orchestration, piano, violin, and bassoon at the Conservatori del Liceu.

He has performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Ópera de Oviedo, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Teatro Regio di Parma, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Ópera de Las Palmas, Festival Mozart A Coruña, Opera di Roma, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, and Salle Philharmonique de Liège.

As a recitalist, he has performed in the Großer Saal and the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, at Leighton House Museum (London), the Schubertiade, Fundación Juan March, and the Palau de la Música Catalana, among others.

His operatic roles include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Schaunard in La Bohème, Ping in Turandot, and Don Juan (Tenorio) at Teatro Real; Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse); Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Ópera de Oviedo and Teatre Principal de Palma); Dandini in La Cenerentola (Santiago de Chile); Albert in Werther (Liceu and Teatre Principal de Palma); Malatesta in Don Pasquale (Maestranza and Kursaal); Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Teatro Real, Liceu, Opera di Roma, Nice, Melbourne, and Auckland); Horemhab in Akhnaten by Philip Glass (Opéra de Nice and Liceu); Belcore in L’elisir d’amore (Teatre Principal de Palma); and Marcello (Opéra de Metz).

Recent engagements include Orfeo by Monteverdi and L’Arxiduc (Palma de Mallorca), his return to the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with Gardel, Achilla in Giulio Cesare (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse), Benjamin at Portbou and Akhnaten (Liceu), Don Quijote in El retablo de Maese Pérez (Teatro Cervantes) and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Teatro de la Maestranza).

In the 2026/2027 season, in addition to numerous concerts and recitals, he will return to the Nice Opera as Zoroastre in Handel’s Orlando, to the Liceu as Schaunard, and will make his debut as Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust with the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn under the baton of the legendary conductor Michel Plasson.