AboutMarcelo Álvarez, tenor Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez has emerged as one of the leading operatic artists of our day. He has been acclaimed in the most important theaters throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Opera; Teatro alla Scala; Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Opera National de Paris Bastille; Staatsoper Berlin; Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Vienna State Opera; Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, as well as at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Communale di Bologna, Theatre du Capitole Toulouse and many others. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Álvarez joins forces with tenor Salvatore Licitra in Duetto, an album of new songs created especially for the two singers by a carefully selected group of the greatest writers and arrangers working in music today. Duetto will be released internationally in the summer. The two tenors will reunite on June 12 for Duetto - The Concert at the Roman Colosseum, an outdoor concert performance featuring the music of Duetto, to be filmed for subsequent broadcast on RAI Uno, BBC, PBS Great Performances and Arte, with home video release to follow. Álvarez's previous Sony Classical release was the critically acclaimed French Opera Arias. He made his recording debut for the label with Bel Canto in 1998, which he followed with Álvarez Sings Gardel, a disc of classic Argentinian tangos made famous by the legendary singer Carlos Gardel. In the 2002-03 season, Marcelo Álvarez added three roles to his repertoire. He sang Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia with Teatro alla Scala, where he also starred as Rodolfo in their new production of La Bohème. Álvarez returned to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden for his first appearances in Luisa Miller, in a new production. The recently completed season also saw the tenor's return to the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera and Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice and to Japan as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and he appears in Trieste in the title role in Werther. Marcelo Álvarez was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He began his professional career in Italy, making his debut in La Sonnambula at Teatro la Fenice in Venice in 1995, which resulted in immediate invitations from several other theaters. He sang his first performances of the Duke in Rigoletto at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste and, in the same role, made his French stage debut in Toulouse in June of 1997 and Arena di Verona debut in August 1997. Álvarez has also been heard as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro La Fenice. He made his Spanish debut as Tonio in La Fille du Regiment in Bilbao. In the spring of 1997, at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Álvarez appeared for the first time in the title role of Massenet's Werther, a performance that was enthusiastically praised by the entire Italian musical press. Earlier that season, he had sung the role of the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier. The tenor also sang his first performances of Arturo in I Puritani at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, to what can only be described as a tumultuous acclaim. Álvarez's 1997-98 season featured several significant debuts. He appeared at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires in September 1997 as the Duke in Rigoletto. Concert performances of Werther at the Theatre Royale de la Monnaie were followed by his London debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Mark Elder in concert performances of Linda di Chamounix, the work in which Álvarez made his La Scala in the spring of 1998. He appeared as Fenton in a new production of Falstaff at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Claudio Abbado, and made his first appearances with the Royal Opera in performances of La Traviata at the Royal Albert Hall. In the same role, he made both his Vienna State Opera and Paris Opera debuts. Marcelo Álvarez made his North American debut in November of 1998 as Alfredo in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of La Traviata, conducted by James Levine and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Earlier in that season, he sang his first Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Toulouse. Other engagements for that season included a new production of Rigoletto at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, his first Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and La Traviata in Orange, where he also appeared in a gala concert. In the 1999-2000 season Álvarez appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and also at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in new productions of La Traviata. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Rigoletto, which he also performed this season at the Bastille Opera. Álvarez made his Munich debut in a new production of Gounod's Faust, debuting in the title role. The 2000-01 season included Marcelo Álvarez's first Hoffmann for the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, as well as appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in La Traviata and Der Rosenkavalier. He appeared in Toulouse in Werther and in his first performances of Nemorino in L'Elisir D'Amore and in Manon opposite Renée Fleming at the Bastille. He performed the Duke in Rigoletto in Tokyo, a role he also performed in Vienna and Choregies d'Orange. Marcelo Álvarez returned to his native city in Cordoba, Argentina, in April to perform at the Teatro Libertador. In September 2000, Álvarez was an invited guest to the Jussi Bjoerling Gala in Stockholm. The artist made his North American recital debut at William Jewell College in Kansas City in January 2001. Marcelo Álvarez began his 2001-02 season with a new production of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera and Opera National de Paris in the same role and appeared with the Teatro alla Scala in La Traviata under Riccardo Muti. Álvarez was also heard at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in Lucia di Lammermoor and Manon. In June of 2002, he made his debut with the Chatelet in Paris in Lucie de Lammermoor, in the rarely heard French version Donizetti created especially for Paris. Álvarez returned to the Bavarian State Opera for the 2002 Festival in La Traviata, and appeared in Rigoletto in Macerata. Future projects also include new productions of Werther at Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera, as well as his first Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera, in a new production for Covent Garden. Álvarez makes his Chicago Lyric Opera debut in 2004 in Lucia di Lammermoor and in that same year sings his first Romeo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in a new production in Munich. He returns to the Opera Bastille in Paris in 2003 as Rodolfo in La Boheme which he will also sing in furture seasons at the Metropolitan Opera And at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and bows in Barcelona in a new production of Rigoletto. He also has several future engagements throughout Italy including a new "Rigoletto" at the Arena di Verona as well as appearances in Naples and Venice. |
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