ALBERT MONTAÑEZ

producer / curator / performing Artist

Albert Montañez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans production, education, and performance. His creative practice encompasses a wide range of projects and collaborations across multiple art forms. Notably, he was a curator and lead producer of the Getty25 project—celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Getty Center in Los Angeles—and serves as curator and artistic producer at Stanford Live, booking and producing live experiences for multiple venues. Albert has also appeared as a guest artist with San Francisco Opera, contributing to its online programming through pre-opera talks and discussions on LGBTQ+ opera and contemporary works.

He is the creator and Executive Producer of The Alan Turing Opera Project, a contemporary opera commissioned by the Halland Contemporary Opera Festival and the Swedish Arts Council. Albert reprised the role during WorldPride 2021 in Malmö, Sweden, at Palladium, and at the Copenhagen Opera Festival in 2022. Albert was the founder and creator of Opera för Barn (Opera for Kids), an educational initiative developed in collaboration with El Sistema and Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg. The project was designed to introduce children to opera through participatory performance, storytelling, and composition, fostering creativity and engagement with the art form from an early age.

In the United States, he produced and performed the U.S. premiere of Jonathan Dove’s dramatic cantata Hōjōki in San Francisco. He also collaborated with renowned American composer Jake Heggie for the Dallas Opera’s Comique Opera showcase of Great Scott. Albert has also appeared in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, where he performed the world premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s Three Biographies for Countertenor and Cello, and the Barbican Centre with the London Contemporary Opera. He also participated in the Birgit Nilsson Homage Song Concert in Copenhagen as part of the Nordic Song Festival.

Albert’s artistic journey has also extended to Asia, where he made his debut with the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra and the China Philharmonic in Beijing and Suzhou. Past engagements have seen him perform leading roles including Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Halifax Summer Opera (Canada); Telemaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Opera Studio Nederland; the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Switzerland with L’Avance-Scène Opéra; and the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at Teatro Colón in Bogotá.