Alfredo Daza

Alfredo Daza (born December 7, 1975 in Puebla , Mexico ) is a Mexican opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Alfredo Daza began vocal training at the Conservatory of Puebla at the age of twelve and moved to the National Conservatory of Mexico City in 1994 .

From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of both the international San Francisco Adler Fellowship and the Merola Opera Program San Francisco.

In 1997 Alfredo Daza sang Don Giovanni ( Don Giovanni ) in Mexico City. After moving to the United States, he made his debut in various North American and European opera houses. In 1999, Alfredo Daza sang Schaunard at the San Francisco Opera ( La Bohème ) and at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

In 2000 he made his debut as Valentin (in the opera Faust by Gounod ) under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and as Dandini ( La Cenerentola ) at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 2001 Daza sang the title role of Figaro in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Washington Opera, where he interpreted Marcello (La Bohème) a year later . As Marcello, he was also heard in the New York City Opera in a new production of La Bohème , which was broadcast as part of the series Live from Lincoln Center on American television. Alfredo Daza toured Japan as Guglielmo ( Così fan tutte ) with the Michigan Opera Theater .

At the Los Angeles Opera he sang Ping ( Turandot ) , the barber in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and, in autumn 2004, the role of Marcello in La Bohème . At the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste he appeared as Lescaut in Massenet's Manon . His first Papageno in The Magic Flute followed in Genoa . In autumn 2002 Daza made his debut at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in the role of Schaunard (La Bohème) under the direction of Antonio Pappano . In spring 2003 he sang Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) in Cagliari. He has appeared as Ford ( Falstaff ) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the direction of James Conlon and at the Hamburg State Opera under the direction of Simone Young . In the summer of 2009 he made his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Belcore ( L'elisir d'amore ). In summer 2012 he made his debut as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca at the Kiel Opera . Daza has been a member of the ensemble of the State Opera Unter den Linden since 2004 .

In 2013 Daza was heard for the first time in an opera by Benjamin Britten: at the Hamburg State Opera he played the role of Sir Robert Cecil in Britten's Gloriana under the baton of Simone Young. In the same year he returned to Los Angeles after a long period to sing the role of Tadeo Cespedes in the world premiere of the opera Dulce Rosa under the direction of Placido Domingo . The baritone is now increasingly specializing in the Verdi roles in his repertoire. In 2006 he sang Giorgio Germont ( La traviata ) for the first time at the Berlin State Opera , 2007 Ford ( Falstaff ), 2008 the Posa in Don Carlo and since 2009 Renato in Un ballo in maschera under the direction of Phillip Jordan.

He made his debut in February 2014 in the role of Francesco Moor in Verdi's opera I masnadieri at Konzerthaus Berlin.

In his home country of Mexico he could be seen in a Mozart gala (“Esto es Mozart”) in the spring of 2015 at the side of the soprano Karen Gardeazabal in the Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City. In the same context he gave a master class for the students of the conservatory. Daza made his debut in 2015 as Valdeburgo / Leopoldo in Vincenzo Bellini's opera La straniera - a concert performance at the Berlin State Opera in which Edita Gruberova sang the female title role.

Awards

• 1991 International Carlo Morelli Singing Competition in Mexico City (1st special prize)
• 1994 National Mexican Competition of the University of Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra , OSUG. (1st Prize)
• 1995 National Mexican Youth Music Competition of the National Foundation for Art and Culture, FONCA (1st Prize)
• 1998 Placido Domingo Prize of the International Society for Mexican Artistic Values, SIVAM, in the form of a scholarship
• 1999 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition , Vienna (audience award)

repertoire

composer	Opera	role
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	So fan tutte	Guglielmo and Don Alfonso
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Le nozze di Figaro	Almaviva
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	The Magic Flute	Papageno
Benjamin Britten	Gloriana	Sir Robert Cecil
Gaetano Donizetti	L'elisir d'amore	Belcore
Vincenzo Bellini	La straniera	Valdeburgo / Leopoldo
Gioacchino Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro
Gioacchino Rossini	La scala di seta	Germano and Blansac
Gioacchino Rossini	Il signor Bruschino	Gaudenzio
Gioacchino Rossini	La Cenerentola	Dandini
Gioacchino Rossini	Il turco in Italia	Il Poeta Prodoscimo
Giacomo Puccini	La bohème	Marcello
Giacomo Puccini	Madama Butterfly	Sharpless
Giacomo Puccini	Tosca	Scarpia
Giacomo Puccini	Turandot	Ping
Giacomo Puccini	Manon Lescaut	Lescaut
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Queen of Spades	Yeletzki
Jules Massenet	Manon	Lescaut
Jules Massenet	Werther	Albert
Charles Gounod	fist	Valentine
Christoph Willibald Gluck	Iphigénie en Tauride	Orestes
Claude Debussy	L'enfant prodigue	Simeon
Giuseppe Verdi	La traviata	Giorgio Germont
Giuseppe Verdi	Falstaff	ford
Giuseppe Verdi	Don Carlo	Rodrigo, marchese di Posa
Giuseppe Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	Renato
Giuseppe Verdi	I masnadieri	Francesco Moor
Giuseppe Verdi	Il trovatore	Conte di Luna

Discography

• La Bohème (DVD) Opera by Giacomo Puccini, Live from Lincoln Center, with Rolando Villazón, Maria Kaniova and Alfredo Daza, conductor George Manahan - PBS / Live from Lincoln Center
• Stolen Notes (CD) Verdi arias with the Parma Opera Ensemble - Michael Storrs Music
• Manon (DVD) Opera by Jules Massenet with Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón and Alfredo Daza, conductor Daniel Barenboim - Deutsche Grammophon
• Angel & Demon (CD) songs by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow, Anna Samuil (soprano), Alfredo Daza (baritone) - Michael Storrs Music
• L'elisir d'amore (DVD) Opera by Gaetano Donizetti with Ekaterina Siurina , Peter Auty and Alfredo Daza, conductor Maurizio Benini at the Glyndebourne Festival - Opus Arte

Web links

• Alfredo Daza on the website of the Berlin State Opera, accessed on April 14, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfredo Daza at talentodeclasemundial.com.
2. ^ [1] Merola San Francisco.
3. ^ [2] Homepage San Francisco Opera.
4. ^ [3] , Washington Opera homepage with reference to the production il barbiere di Siviglia
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the Hamburg State Opera with a reference to Britten's Gloriana .  
6. ↑ [4] , homepage of the Los Angeles Opera.
7. ↑ [5] , Los Angeles Opera Dulce Rosa.
8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homepage of the Berlin State Opera, biography of Alfredo Daza.  
9. ↑ [6] , Homepage Spain Culture, Advertisement Konzerthaus Berlin I Masnadieri .
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of The News newspaper .