Jordy Vargas

Nicaraguan tenor, Jordy Betancourt-Vargas, is an artist to watch. Passionate about new music and opera, Jordy most recently premiered a scene from Inna Onofrei’s opera, Ara the Beautiful with the Cleveland Composers Guild. He has also performed the role of The Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck with the Pittsburgh Festival Opera. Jordy holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where they were seen as Ethan in Kamala Sankaram’s Looking at You and Claudio in Hector Berlioz’s Beatrice et Benedict. in 2023, they made their Pittsburgh Opera Chorus debut in Mozart’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. In recital, they have used their platform to uplift works that exist outside of the standard repertoire, with a focus on the historical presence of queerness in music. Jordy has also commissioned art songs by Nicaraguan composers with texts by Nicaraguan poets, which will be a lifelong project to broaden the catalogue of Nicaraguan music. Jordy is currently based in Chicago, IL.