Aquiles Machado - Mario Cavaradossi
Winner of numerous international competitions including Operalia and Viñas,
Aquiles Machado debuted 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 (Beijing), Un Ballo in Maschera (Liège), 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 Barenboim, 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. After his success gained as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca
and in I Masnadieri in Naples Aquiles Machado recently performed Enzo
Grimaldo in La Gioconda in Palermo and Rome, as Don José in Carmen
in Las Palmas, as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra in Zurich, as
Alfredo in La Traviata in Florence, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
Future plans : La Bohème
in Valencia and Venice; La tabernera del puerto in La Coruña; Norma
and Verdi’s Requiem at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Roméo et
Juliette (Roméo) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; La Traviata
in Oviedo; Madama Butterfly in Vienna; Verdi’s Requiem in Leipzig.
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