Aquiles Machado - Pollione
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 in Leipzig, role he had sung with huge
success at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, 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; Don José in Carmen in
Bilbao; I Due Foscari in Toulouse. Aquiles Machado had performed Verdi’s Requiem in
Bologna then on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti
and in Cincinnati and St. Luois under the baton of Frühbeck de Burgos and again
Verdian Gala at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
Future plans: Madama Butterfly in Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper);
La Bohème at the Caracalla Bath in Rome and at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
in Liège. As returning guest at the Oper in Leipzig Mr. Machado will star in Verdi’s Requiem.
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