Chacón-Cruz studied Industrial and Mechanical Engineering in his native Sonora, and voice at the same time. In 1998,
he decided in favor of singing, and gave up engineering; he continued his vocal studies in Mexico City, then in Boston,
where he graduated in 2003.
He started his career at the operatic studios of the San Francisco Opera and particularly the Houston Grand Opera. In 2005,
he won the zarzuela prize at Domingo's Operalia competition in Madrid, which was the start to an international career:
Los Angeles, Washington, Detroit, Miami, Mexico City, Buenos Aires (Colón), Tokyo, Moscow (Bolshoj), Verona, Parma,
Torino, Rome, Padova, Genova, Florence, Bologna, Palermo, Barcelona, San Sebastián, Las Palmas, Sevilla, Valencia,
Monte Carlo, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Liège, Brussels, Munich, Berlin (Staatsoper), Cologne,
Stuttgart, Hamburg, Vienna (Theater an der Wien), Budapest, Ljubljana, Zürich, Stockholm, Tel Aviv...
His repertory is clearly dominated by Verdi and Puccini: Duca, Alfredo, Gabriele Adorno, Manrico, Jacopo Foscari, Oronte
(Lombardi), Don Carlo, Macduff, Riccardo, Rodolfo, Rinuccio, Cavaradossi, Ruggero (La rondine), Edgardo, Don José,
Massenet's des Grieux, Werther, Berlioz' Faust.
I heard him as Jacopo Foscari and decided to avoid repeating the experience at all cost.
Reference 1, reference 2:
Chacón-Cruz' website, reference 3
