Aquiles Machado - Pinkerton
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 returns to sing Puccini’s masterpice. Among his recent engagements, it is worth mentioning: Cavaradossi in Tosca in Leipzig, a role he sang with huge success at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); Carmen and Un Ballo in Maschera 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; 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; La Bohème at the Baths of Caracalla (Rome) and in Dresden; Cavalleria Rusticana in Pamplona; Madama Butterfly and Carmen in St.Petersburg; Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Aquiles Machado performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna then on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti, in Cincinnati and St. Louis under Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, at the Gewandhaus Leipzig under Anthony Bramall.
Future plans: La Traviata in Florence; Carmen in Minorca; Simon Boccanegra and a lyric concert in Las Palmas; La Bohème in Liège; Un Ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv.
Wiener Staatsoper
Vienna
January 26th, 2015
January 30th