Aquiles Machado - Don José
After his successes gained 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 recently starred as Cavaradossi in Tosca il Leipzig, role he had sung with huge success at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in Beijin, in Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper). 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; 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;Roméo et Juliette in Liège. Aquiles Machado had performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna and on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under the baton of Michele Mariotti and a Verdian Gala at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
Future plans: Madama Butterfly in Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); I due Foscari in Toulouse; Norma in Palermo. Mr. Machado will star in Verdi’s Requiem Cincinnati, St. Louis and as returning guest at the Oper in Leipzig.
Palacio Euskalduna
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