Aquiles Machado - Faust*
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 will make his debut in Gounod’s masterpiece. Among his
past engagements, it is worth mentioning: Cavaradossi in Tosca in
Leipzig, as well as 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 in Torre
del Lago and Vienna; 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 then at the Opera in Florence; Roméo et Juliette in Liège;
Don José in Carmen in Bilbao; I Due Foscari in Toulouse; La
Bohème at the Terme in Caracalla (Rome) and in Dresden; Cavalleria
Rusticana in Pamplona; Madama Butterfly and Carmen in
St.Petersburg; Tosca in Cagliari under Gianluigi Gelmetti and at the
Opera in Rome; 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 : I due
Foscari in Barcelona; La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow;
Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Carmen in Minorca and then at the Mariinsky Opera in St. Petersburg, under Valerij Gergiev; Don
Carlo in São Paulo; Simon Boccanegra, Werther, Don Carlo in
Las Palmas; La Bohème in Liège; Un Ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv
again under Zubin Mehta.
*Role debut
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