Eleomar Cuello
About this Artist
Cuban baritone Eleomar Cuello, whom the San Francisco Chronicle lauded, “Appearing as Iago…[he] gave a performance of such musical eloquence and theatrical bravura that the audience couldn’t quite believe what we were witnessing” recently finished his second and final year as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the 2025-2026 season, Mr. Cuello will return to the Metropolitan Opera as Dancaïre in Carmen, and make several debuts, including the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Knoxville Opera, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and in concert, Brahms’ Requiem with the Lubbock Symphony. In the 2024-2025 season at the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Cuello performed Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the Bullfighter in Ainadamar. Outside of New York, he sang Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, a role debut, Silvio in I Pagliacci with Utah Opera and Schaunard in La bohéme with Opera Maine. Notable debuts of recent seasons include the title role in Don Giovanni with Staatstheater Stuttgart and Vero Beach Opera, Silvio with Florida Grand Opera, and covers of Périchaud in La rondine and Dancaïre in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera.
A resident of Chile from 2015 to 2020, Mr. Cuello performed at the prestigious Teatro Municipal de Santiago as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Valentin in Faust, Haly in L'italiana in Algeri, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Marques D’Obigny and Baron Douphol in La traviata. Elsewhere in Chile, he sang the title role of Don Giovanni, Mamma Agatha in Donizetti’s Le convenenze e inconvenenze teatrali, Escamillo in Carmen, Schaunard, Silvio, and Apollo. After immigrating to Florida in 2021, Eleomar made his US debut as Belcore in L'elisir d 'amore with the Gulf Coast Symphony, Dulcamara in L'elisir d 'amore with Vero Beach Opera, Angelotti in Tosca, Gregorio in Romeo et Juliette, and Morales in Carmen with Opera Naples, and Marco in both Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Michael Ching’s sequel Buoso's Ghost in a double-bill with Florida Grand Opera. Finally, in 2020, Mr. Cuello appeared in the new production of Roig's Cecilia Valdés at Teatro de la Zarzuela and later returned as Don Diego in Moreno’s Don Gil de Alcalá in 2022.
Based in New York City and a native of Havana, Cuba, Eleomar Cuello was a participant in the grand finals of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont as well as a member of the 2023 Merola Opera program with San Francisco Opera. A graduate of the Academy of the National Lyric Theatre of Cuba, Eleomar began his career while still a teenager with that company, performing at the Grand Theater of Havana and the National Theater of Cuba, singing as a soloist in operas and zarzuelas such as Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni, La Traviata, La bohème, and Madama Butterfly, La serva padrona, Cecilia Valdés, La verbena de la Paloma, La corte de Faraón, and Las leandras.