A winner of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Carlos Enrique Santelli is a graduate of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. He has appeared with companies including Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera San Antonio, and Opera Orlando.

To begin the 2025-26 season, he will serve on the faculty of the University of Texas Butler School of Music. In the 2023–24 season, Santelli was appointed to the voice faculty at the University of Memphis. He appeared with Opera Memphis in the role of Pan in La Calisto, a role he will reprise in the current season. He also joined the Memphis Symphony Orchestra for Mozart’s Requiem. 

In the 2022–23 season, he performed Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Amarillo Opera, Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette with Opera San Antonio, and Tonio in La fille du régiment with Opera Orlando. Previous seasons included Almaviva with Finger Lakes Opera and San Diego Opera, Ramiro in La cenerentola with Dayton Opera, and Lorenzo in Bolcom’s Lucrezia with Opera Louisiane. He joined Minnesota Opera for The Anonymous Lover, and debuted with Houston Grand Opera in Turandot and Roméo et Juliette.

At LA Opera, he performed in Salome, Wonderful Town, and the 10th anniversary gala of its young artist program. With Santa Fe Opera, he debuted as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor.

Santelli holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan, where he was a Jessye Norman Graduate Fellow.