Aquiles Machado - Roméo
After his successes gained singing Tosca and in I Masnadieri in Naples, La Gioconda in Palermo and Rome, La Forza del Destino at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Ernani in Bilbao, Un Ballo in Maschera in Liège and Simon Boccanegra in Berlin, Aquiles Machado adds another important verdian role to his repertoire singing Manrico in Il Trovatore. Among his recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Don José in Carmen in Las Palmas; Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra in Zurich; Alfredo in La Traviata in Florence; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Wiener Staatsoper; Rodolfo in La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly conducting; Un Ballo in Maschera in Las Palmas; Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Traviata at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia under Zubin Mehta. Aquiles Machado had just performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna and on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival and a Verdian Gala at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
Future plans: Tosca in Leipzig; Madama Butterfly in Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); I due Foscari in Toulouse; Norma in Palermo. Mr. Machado will star in Verdi’s Requiem in Leipzig, Cincinnati and St. Louis.
Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Liège
November 17th, 2013
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