Francisco Araiza
Francisco Araiza ( born October 4, 1950 in Mexico City) is a Mexican opera singer in the vocal range Tenor.
Araiza then one of the lyric tenors, who began primarily as Mozart and Rossini tenor, but also as a singer of songs standards and from the mid-1980s through his tray extension into the dramatic Lirico - spinto compartment ( with roles of Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Gounod and finally Wagner) successes celebrated.
Biography
He studied voice with Irma Gonzalez at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and German repertoire with Erika Kubacsek in his hometown. Previously, he had already been completed at the local university to study business administration. In 1970 he made his operatic debut in Mexico City and in 1974 prizewinner at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich. Immediately afterwards the engagement ensued at the Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In 1977 he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House as a permanent member. At the latest after Herbert von Karajan had invited him in 1980 as Tamino for his recording of The Magic Flute, and the Salzburg Festival, began his international career, which led him to the great opera houses and to all international Festival, where he worked with leading conductors and directors of his time.
Since the mid- 1990s, he increasingly occurs as a singing teacher in appearance, with master classes, as a juror in singing competitions and finally since 2003 as a professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. At the International Opera Studio in Zurich he teaches vocal techniques and stylistic training and since 2004 he has worked within the Bertelsmann Foundation as a juror and lecturer as well as the Board of Trustees of Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation and the Foundation Board of the European Cultural Foundation Europamusicale. From November 2007 to June 2009 he served as Artistic Director of the International Hugo Wolf Academy.
Roll
- Italian repertoire: Verdi operas: Alfredo in La Traviata; Il Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto; Alvaro in La forza del destino; Gustavo III in Un ballo in maschera; Title role in Don Carlo; Rodolfo in La Bohème by Puccini; Title role in Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano; Pollione in Norma by Vincenzo Bellini.
- French repertoire: Don José in Carmen by Georges Bizet; Title role in Gounod's Faust; Hoffmann in Les Contes d' Hoffmann, the title role of Werther by Jules Massenet.
- German repertoire: Tamino in The Magic Flute and Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart, title role in Lohengrin and Walter von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Max in Der Freischütz.
Awards
Araiza has recorded more than a hundred titles on CD and DVD and has received numerous awards such as the Orphée d' Or and the German Record Prize. 1988, the title Kammersänger the Vienna State Opera, he was awarded. In July 2011 he was honored on the occasion of his 40th anniversary of singing by the Instituto de Bellas Artes y Literatura y la Compania Nacional de Opera in Mexico City with the Gold Medal of Fine Arts.