Camilo Lopez is a Venezuelan baritone, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Voxalis Opera, as well as Southern Cross Soloists’ Production Coordinator. At his young age, Camilo has proven to be an exciting rising operatic baritone with a multi-faceted emerging career as a performer, producer, and director.

Since his professional debut in 2015 at the prestigious Teatro Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Camilo has been a featured soloist for the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival, the Queensland Art Song Festival, and a young artist for the Brisbane Music Festival. In 2023, he had the privilege of joining Opera Australia and Opera Queensland for Brisbane’s first Ring Cycle by R. Wagner. Camilo’s operatic roles include Manfred Lewin (For a Look or a Touch | Jake Heggie, Australian Premiere) Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas | Purcell), Harry Easter (Street Scene | Weill), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Britten), Schaunard (La bohème | Puccini), Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart).
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Since 2021, Camilo has been the Artistic Director of Voxalis Opera, where he has steadily helped diversify Brisbane’s operatic scene by creating innovative, attractive and inclusive performances for both audiences, and Queensland artists. He was also the assistant director for the 2023 Val Machin Opera Scenes at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Camilo completed a Bachelor of Music and a Masters of Music Studies in Opera Performance (with Distinction) at the Queensland Conservatorium where he studied with Dr. Margaret Schindler and Mattias Lower. Here, Camilo received multiple academic awards including the Griffith Award for Academic Excellence from 2018 to 2021, and the Griffith Remarkable Scholarship for postgraduate studies.