Puerto-Rican baritone Joeavian Rivera returns to the Moores Opera Center this fall for their 2023–2024 season, where he will be featured as le Fauteuil and l’Arbre in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Baron Zeta in Die Lustige Witwe, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and Fred Beenstock in Tom Cipullo’s Hobson’s Choice. Additionally, this season Mr. Rivera will make his professional debut with Ars Lyrica Houston, where he will be featured in C.P.E Bach’s Klopstocks Morgengesang and Marc-Antoine Charpantier’s Messe de Minuit de Noel.  
In addition to his passion for operatic literature, Mr. Rivera also shares a passion for art song repertoire. Last season, he joined the Toronto Summer Music Festival where he was awarded the Weston Family Foundation Fellowship to participate in the Art of Song program. Fellowship engagements included two recital performances of repertoire such as Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinee, Schubert’s Erlkönig, and selections by composers such as Gene Scheer, Alma Mahler, Gerald Finzi, and Robert Schumann.  
Prior seasons with the Moores Opera Center have featured Mr. Rivera as Maestro (Ainadamar), Principal Baritone (Sondheim on Sondheim), le Père and l’usurier in Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête, Krušina (The Bartered Bride), Achilla (Giulio Cesare), and Carl-Magnus (A Little Night Music), as well as Pistola in the act III finale of Verdi’s Falstaff in concert with the Moores School of Music Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Florida School of Music where he was featured as Sprecher and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Koko in The Mikado. He completed his Master of Music degree at University of Houston Moores School of Music where he is currently also pursuing a Certificate of Music Performance in Voice under the tutelage of Professor Melanie Sonnenberg.