Gaston Rivero

GASTON RIVERO

Tenor

The tenor Gaston Rivero made his debut in 2003 in New York City in Baz Luhrman's production of Pucini's "La bohème on Broadway".

Engagements in 16/17 include a.o. Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly at Nationaltheater Mannheim and Oper Leipzig and Radames/Aida at Theater La Monnaie Brussels and Arena di Verona.

Engagements in 17/18 include Radames/Aida with G. Noseda and Teatro Regio di Torino on Tour to Oman, Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly at Savonlinna Opera Festival Finland, Don Carlos, Ismaele/Nabucco, Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly and Cavaradossi/Tosca at Oper Leipzig, Manrico/Il trovatore at Aalto Theater Essen, Ismaele/Nabucco, Don Carlos and Turridu/Cavalleria Rusticana at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Company credits include Radames/Aida at the Opéra national de Paris Bastille, Manrico/Il trovatore at Staatsoper Berlin under the direction of Maestro Daniel Barenboim, also Don Carlos, Macduff/Macbeth and Gabriele Adorno/Simon Bocanegra; Ismaele/Nabucco at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Don José/Carmen, Clorivere/Maria Victorie, Agamegnone/Cassandra and Rodolfo/La bohemé at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Ismaele/Nabucco at Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Don José/Carmen at New National Theater Tokyo, Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut and Cavaradossi/Tosca at Aalto Music Theater Essen; Romeo/Romeo et Juliette and Rodolfo/La Bohemé at Israeli Opera Tel Aviv; Don José/Carmen at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad; Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut, Pinkerton/Madama Buttefly and Italian singer/Der Rosenkavalier at Oper Leipzig and Rodolfo/Luisa Miller at Staatstheater Stuttgart.

Gaston Rivero is also known for his role as Manrico in Il trovatore alongside Plácido Domingo, a production of Philipp Stölzl which has been released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon.

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HOVHANNES AYVAZYAN

Tenor

Since his 2010 stage Debut, Hovhannes Ayvazyan has frequently performed at various Opera Houses and Concert Halls including: Opera Belcanto of South Simcoe in Toronto, Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Tatar State Opera in Kazan, Big Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire, Musikverein Vienna, Novaya Opera and Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, etc.

The young Armenian Tenor, critically acclaimed as “the whole package of a true dramatic tenor”, “outstanding Don Carlo”, has often performed under the baton of Maestro Valery Gergiev, and had the pleasure to work frequently with such legends as Maria Guleghina, Anna Netrebko, Olga

Borodina, Lyudmila Monastirskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Tatyana Serjan, and many others.

Most recent successes included a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at the Musikverein in Vienna, a concert at the Geneva’s Victoria Hall, performances at the Yerevan Opera House as Canio, Turiddu, Don Jose, Radames and Pinkerton, as well as many title roles at the Mariinsky Theatre including Don Carlo, Manrico and Cavaradossi. He was on tour with the Berliner Symphoniker under Maestro Lior Shambadal for which he received outstanding reviews and performed Don Jose in Carmen with the Moscow State Opera at the BGE Theatre in Dublin in March.

Some future engagements include Radames in Aida at Arena di Verona, Tosca, Il Trovatore and Don Carlos at the Mariinsky Theatre.

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WALTER FRACCARO

Tenor

Walter Fraccaro is regularly invited to perform on the world's most prestigious stages, including: Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Wiener Staatsoper; the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Teatro Real in Madrid; San Francisco Opera; Hamburgische Staatsoper; Opernhaus Zürich; Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Arena di Verona; Maggio Musicale in Florence; Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Opera in Rome; Teatro Massimo in Palermo; and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

His vast repertory includes, among many others: Radames in Aida and Stiffelio, Foresto in Attila, Gabriele in Simon Boccanegra, Macduff in Macbeth, Alvaro in La forza del destino, Don Carlo playing the title role, Rodolfo in Luisa Miller, Manrico in Il Trovatore and also Rodolfo in La Bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Faust in Mefistofele, Don José in Carmen, Enzo in La Gioconda, Calaf in Turandot, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, Andrea Chénier playing the title role, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana.

He made his debut in 1994 in Nabucco at the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, winner the previous year of the second prize as best tenor and the Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballé Award as the best Verdi interpreter at the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona.

Among his 2009 and 2013 engagements we can find: Simon Boccanegra in Palermo; Il Trovatore in Oviedo, Nice, Athens, Bassano, Padova and Rovigo; Cavalleria rusticana in Venice; Manon Lescaut in Florence, Venice, Verona, Modena, Piacenza and Ferrara and Sevilla; Mefistofele in Rome; Otello in Venice, Trieste and Zurich; Aida at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome, in Parma, in Florence, in Verona and Munich and S. Diego; Tosca in Zurich, Mannheim, Florence and Torre del Lago; La forza del destino in Japan on tour with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Il Trovatore in Tokyo, a Belem (Brazil) and Mexico City; Otello in Tokyo and Como; Turandot in San Francisco, Menorca, New York, Seul and Beijing; the 2012 New Year’s Concert at Gran Teatro la Fenice; Madama Butterfly in Nice and Athens.

His recent and future engagements include: Turandot in Turin and Torre del Lago; Aida in Verona; again in Belem to sing Otello; Pagliacci in São Paulo; Carmen in Seul; Cavalleria rusticana in Tokyo; Madama Butterfly in Antibes, a Gala in Honk Hong in tour with Savonlinna Opera Festival, and a Concert at Teatro Regio in Parma, La forza del destino in Parma, Carmen in Tenerife.