Biography

José Luis Trinidad is a Spanish lyric tenor, born in Extremadura and trained in València. He combines his work as a technology entrepreneur with a singing career built around opera, zarzuela and the concert repertoire, and with OperaValencia, the project he runs together with other Valencian musicians.

I was born in Fregenal de la Sierra, in Extremadura, and grew up in València. Music was always there — at home, in the town band, in choirs — but my first school of the stage was the tuna: through my university years I was the solo singer of the Tuna Universitaria de Ingenieros Industriales Superiores de Valencia, the student minstrel group of the city’s engineering school. It taught me something no classroom does: how to sing for people who have not bought a ticket, and win them over from the first note.

I did not leave technology behind for singing: I do both. I run my own ICT company — that is my job — alongside my life on stage. Far from getting in each other’s way, they feed each other: the method, patience and analysis that engineering demands are exactly what serious vocal study asks for. I continue to refine technique and interpretation at the Conservatori Professional de Música de Silla.

My repertoire moves between Italian opera — Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti — Spanish zarzuela and the great concert repertoire. I have sung with symphony orchestras, symphonic bands and plectrum orchestras, and I keep a lasting collaboration with the OSVI, Orquesta Sinfónica de Villena, conducted by Isidro Alemañ, with whom I made my debut in a Christmas concert and took part in their tenth-anniversary concert at the Teatro Chapí in Villena.

Together with other Valencian musicians I run OperaValencia, a project of our own that brings opera and zarzuela to concert halls, theatres and cultural centres. It is the part of this craft that defines me best: bringing good musicians together and building a programme from scratch.

Musical theatre taught me one of the most useful lessons of my career: singing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables forced me to understand that an aria is not sung, it is acted. That production, by the Agrupación Musical Los Silos, went on to win Best Amateur Musical at the 2025 PremiOFF awards. That way of inhabiting the stage is what I bring to the recital and the lyric gala.