Peruvian tenor César Ballardo is a graduate of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach, where he received his Bachelor's in Music.
At the BCCM Opera Institute, he performed the roles of Monsieur Javelinot from Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Governor from Bernstein’s Candide, and prepared the role of Pluto from Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which was canceled due to COVID-19. In
2021, he performed the role of Sigmund Freud in Steiner/Richards’ The Loathly Lady in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2022, he joined the Pacific Opera Project as a chorus member in their production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, and he covered the role of Zuniga for the Lyric Opera of Orange County’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen.
Spring 2023 will be César’s fourth season as a Fox Singer with the Verdi
Chorus.