Marcelo Álvarez

Marcelo Álvarez ( born February 27, 1962 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine opera singer (tenor ).

Life

Álvarez visited as a child, a music school ( Niños Cantores ) in Córdoba, where he also sang in the boys choir. Later, he decided however for a business degree and worked until his 30th birthday in a furniture factory. Only in 1992 he started - with great support of his wife Patricia - in Buenos Aires to train as an opera singer. There followed three years intensive studies. After his efforts to gain a foothold in the Teatro Colón failed, Marcelo Álvarez decided, in 1995 all his possessions in Argentina to sell and - the Council of Giuseppe Di Stefano following - go to Italy. He now lives with his wife and son in Tortona in Milan.

Career

Shortly after his arrival in Italy, 1995, Marcelo Álvarez won an international singing competition in Pavia, whereupon the first engagements followed. His first appearance as Elvino in La Sonnambula by Bellini at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1995 was a great success, the critics and opera houses drew attention to him. 1998 debuted the singer, inter alia, with Linda di Chamounix at La Scala and La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera.

Since its debut Marcelo Álvarez is one of the leading tenors in the world and guest appearances at all major opera houses (MET, La Scala, Covent Garden, Opera de Bastille, Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, Bavarian State Opera ). Some experts see in him, in the lyric repertoire, a successor of the great Alfredo Kraus. However, it allows the development of his voice lately, in addition to deny roles from the spinto specialist with great success.

2001 and 2002 Marcelo Álvarez was awarded the Echo Klassik Singer of the Year in 2003 voted him the readers of the Italian magazine "L' Opera " the best tenor of the year.

Voice and repertoire

Marcelo Álvarez has a velvety, but this pithy- male timbre. He has a sophisticated vocal technique, great musicality, fine phrasing and is able to sing most tender Piani. Álvarez ' interpretations of Duca ( Rigoletto ), Des Grieux (Manon ), Werther, Manrico ( Il trovatore ) and Riccardo ( Un ballo in maschera ) are praised by many critics as a master. Especially praised are also his roles in Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo ), I Puritani ( Arturo ), Les contes d' Hoffmann ( Hoffmann), Roméo et Juliette ( Romeo ), Faust ( Faust ), La Bohème ( Rodolfo ), L' elisir d' amore ( Nemorino ), Lucrezia Borgia ( Gennaro ) and many others. Lately, he earned praise of criticism for his debut as Riccardo ( Un Ballo in Maschera ), April 2005 in London, Manrico ( Il Trovatore ), April 2006, Parma and Cavaradossi ( Tosca ), June 2006 in London. In April 2007, Marcelo Álvarez made ​​his successful debut as Don José ( Carmen ) in Toulouse. In 2008 Andrea Chenier is provided in the Scala in Milan.

Marcelo Alvarez was about 10 years Exclusive Artist at Sony. Given the importance and the success of the singer is his discography just amazing at Sony.

Discography

Albums

• Marcelo Álvarez - Bel canto (Sony 1998)
• Berlin Gala - with Freni, Shepherd, Keenlyside ( Polygram Records 1999 live on December 31, 1998)
• Marcelo Álvarez Sings Gardel - Argentine Tango (Sony 2000)
• Marcelo Álvarez - French Arias (Sony 2001)
• Duetto - with Salvatore Licitra (Sony 2003)
• Manon - with R. Fleming (Sony 2003, live from Paris 2003)
• Marcelo Álvarez - The Tenor 's Passion ( Sony 2004)
• Lucia di Lammermoor - with M. Devia (La Voce Inc. 2005, live from Tokyo 2004)
• Festive Opera Gala (RCA 2005, live on 5 November 2005, Berlin )
• The Verdi Tenor ( Decca / Universal 2010)

Concert recordings on DVD

• Love & Desire - with Freni, Shepherd, Keenlyside (TDK 2002, live 31 December 1998, Berlin)
• Verdi Gala - with other well-known artists (TDK 2002, live from the March 11, 2001, Parma)
• Rigoletto - with P.Gavanelli, Ch Shepherd ( BBC Opus Arte 2002, live from London 2001)
• Duetto - with Salvatore Licitra (Sony 2003 Live Concert on 12 June 2003, Rome)
• Manon - with R. Flemming (TDK 2003, live from Paris 2001 )
• La Boheme - Ch Gallardo - Domas (TDK 2004, live from Milan 2003)
• Lucia di Lammermoor - with S. Bonfadelli (TDK 2004, live from Genoa 2003)
• Rigoletto Story - with R. Servile, I. Mula ( Roadhouse 2005 live August 2nd, 2002 from Siena)
• Lucia di Lammermoor - with M. Devia, R. Bruson (La Voce Inc. 2005, live from Tokyo 2004)
• Mariella Devia & Marcelo Álvarez - Recital (La Voce Inc. 2005, live from Tokyo 2004)
• Werther - with E. Garanca (TDK 2005, live from Vienna 2005 )
• 12 Festive Opera Gala (United Motion 2005 live on 5 November 2005, Berlin )
• Rigoletto - with C. Alvarez, I. Mula (TDK 2006, live from Barcelona 2004)