José Corvelo completed his advanced singing studies at Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, in Porto, Portugal, with José de Oliveira Lopes. Master degree at Aveiro University.

He attended master-classes under the guidance of Fernanda Correia, Oliveira Lopes, Rudolf Knoll, Lamara Chkónia, Liliana Bizineche, Francisco Lázaro, Enza Ferrari, Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, Ambra Vespesiani, Ettore Nova and Daniel Muñoz.

José Corvelo is now one of the most sought-after Portuguese baritones. In 2000 he began a regular collaboration as a soloist with Circulo Portuense de Ópera, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Orquestra do Norte and The Portuguese Opera Company. There he made important debuts such as Uberto, Bartolo, Figaro, Leporello, Papagueno, Germont, Monterone, Escamillo, Sharpless, Alfio, Tonio/Taddeo, Dulcamara and many others.
His vast concert repertoire includes Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, Schubert’s Mass in G, Faurè’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Orff’s Carmina Burana, among others.
He took part in the world première of Eurico Carrapatoso’s A Floresta (The Forest, 2004, Teatro São Luis, Lisboa – co-production with Teatro Nacional de São Carlos) and recorded in DVD Carrapatoso’s O Lobo Diogo e o mosquito Valentim (Diogo the Wolf and Valentim the Mosquito, Casa da Música, Porto).

 Recently he had a participation, as singer/actor, in a film by Michael Sturminger, "The Casanova Variations".

He has worked with distinguished scene directors and with conductors such as Osvaldo Ferreira, Paulo Martins, Ferreira Lobo, Rafael Montes Gómez, Jaroslav Mikus, Filipe Sá, Vítor Matos, Jan Wierzba, Paulo Silva, José Ricardo Freitas, Felipe Nabuco-Silvestre, A. Vidal, Silvio Cortez, Antº Sérgio Ferreira, Manuel Ivo Cruz, Gunther Arglebe, Virgílio Caseiro, Rui Massena, António V. Lourenço, Christopher Bochmann, J. Reynolds, Leonardo de Barros, Félix Carrasco, Marco Belluzi, Stephen Darlington, António Carrilho, César Viana, José Eduardo Gomes, Cesário Costa, Roberto Pérez, João Paulo Santos, Emílio de César, Giulio Svegliado, Esteve Nabona, Enrico Dovico, Gregor Bühl, Marko Letonja, Zsolt Hamar, Nicola Giusti, Martin André, Nikša Bareza, Roberto Manfredini, Lawrence Renes, Giovanni Andreoli, Reynald Giovaninetti, Johannes Willig, Marc Tardue, and many others.