Rafael Dávila’s recent engagements include his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Don Jose in Carmen, as Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut for San Francisco Opera, Liceu de Barcelona and Opera de Valencia, with Lyric Opera of Chicago in the premiere of Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto, as well as Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and the Macerata Festival in Italy. Rafael just completed his fourth consecutive season with The Metropolitan Opera and will return next season for the operas Medea, Don Carlo and Aida.  His iconic Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca has been heard in Denver, Miami, Arizona, Kansas City, Sarasota, Minnesota, Puerto Rico, and Leipzig. Internationally Dávila has also appeared as Radames in Verdi’s Aida in productions in Spain and Canada, and last year Rafael made his Russian debut at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. His emblematic role of Don Jose in Carmen has been also heard in Miami, Palm Beach, Naples, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Washington D.C., and New Zealand. 
     Rafael made his debut with The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem in 2013 under Maestro Savia and has sang Turandot’s Calaf for Chicago Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of New York, Connecticut Grand Opera and Opera de Puerto Rico.
     His operatic repertoire also includes Puccini’s, La Fanciulla Del West, Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Otello, La Forza Del Destino and Un Ballo In Maschera, as well as the operas Lucia Di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Catalani’s La Wally and  Bellini’s Norma. 
     His concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Das Lied Von Der Erde, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Verdi’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, and Handel’s Messiah, among others.
     He has also appeared in the zarzuelas Los Gavilanes, Luisa Fernanda, Maria La O, Cecilia Valdés and El Huesped Del Sevillano and the operettas The Merry Widow, The Mikado and Die Fledermaus.
     Rafael began his studies at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, later completing a Master’s degree in Opera performance at the University of Texas in Austin. He has been nominated in two occasions to The Grammy Awards for the recordings of Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla and Rafael Hernández’s operetta Cofresí.