Aquiles Machado - Mario Cavaradossi
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 (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
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 I
Masnadieri in Naples Aquiles Machado recently performed in La Gioconda
in Palermo, Carmen in Las Palmas and as Gabriele Adorno in Simon
Boccanegra at the Opernhaus in Zurich.
Future plans include: La Gioconda at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Roméo
in Roméo et Juliette at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liège;
Rigoletto in Palermo; a concert at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in
Macerata.