
Winner of numerous
international competitions including Operalia and Viñas, Aquiles Machado makes
his debut with Elisir
d'Amore in Caracas and later with
Macbeth in Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria. Among his most successful interpretations:
La Traviata
(Bilbao, Cagliari),
Rigoletto (Nice, Verona),
Macbeth
(Valencia), La Bohème
(Florence, Madrid, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Washington),
Lucia di Lammermoor
(Las Palmas, Bilbao),
Faust (Nice),
Der Rosenkavalier (Vienna),
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
(Seville and Rome), Luisa
Miller (Naples),
Les Troyens
(London Symphony Orchestra). In recent years he discovered a more dramatic
repertoire with Tosca (Naples, Beijing),
Un Ballo in Maschera
(Liége), La Forza del Destino (Festival Verdi at the Teatro Regio in
Parma and Wiener Staatsoper) and
Simone Boccanegra
(Berlin and Barcellona).
He works with prestigious conductors, such as: Daniel Baremboim, Maurizio
Benini, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Jesús Lopez Cobos, Placido Domingo,
Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Leopold Hagger, Friedrich Hayder,
Daniel Oren, Mistlav Rostropovich.
Future plans: I Masnadieri at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Simon Boccanegra at
the Opernhaus in Zurich; Tosca at the National Centre for Performing Arts
in Beijing; Norma at the Teatro Regio in Turin; La Traviata at the
Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence; Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra
Royal de Wallonie in Liège.
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