Aquiles Machado
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 Verdi’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); 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; La Bohème at the Baths of Caracalla (Rome) and in Dresden; a
gala concert in Madrid.
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: Madama
Butterfly in Vienna; La Traviata in Florence; Carmen in
Minorca; Simon Boccanegra in Las Palmas; La Bohème in Liège; Un
Ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv.
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