The Mexican tenor Yordy Ramiro was born in Acapulco in 1949 and as a boy was a member of the Orfeon Infantil Mexicano, a boys’ choir that enjoys considerable prestige. After musical training in Mexico City and in Genoa he made his operatic début in Italy in 1977 with the rôle of Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, a rôle he repeated for his début at the Vienna State Opera, where other leading rôles included Alfredo in La Traviata, the Duke in Rigoletto and Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, with Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and the Italian Singer in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.

Since 1981 Yordy Ramiro has enjoyed an independent career, with appearances in major operahouses in Europe and in the Americas in a solo repertoire that extends from Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini to La Vida Breve of Manuel de Falla and Goyescas of Granados.