Francisco Araiza

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Francisco Araiza as Romeo
( Zurich Opera House , 1990)

Francisco Araiza (born October 4, 1950 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican opera singer with a tenor voice .

Araiza is one of the lyrical tenors who set standards above all as a Mozart and Rossini tenor, but also as a lieder singer, and from the mid-1980s then expanded into the more dramatic Lirico Spinto subject (with roles by Verdi , Puccini , Massenet , Gounod and finally Wagner ) celebrated successes.

biography

He studied singing with Irma Gonzalez at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and German repertoire with Erika Kubacsek in his hometown. He had previously completed a degree in business administration at the university there . In 1970 he made his operatic debut in Mexico City and in 1974 won a prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich . Immediately afterwards, he was committed to the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe . In 1977 the Zurich Opera House engaged him as a permanent member of the ensemble. At the latest after Herbert von Karajan had invited him as Tamino in 1980 for his recording of The Magic Flute and to the Salzburg Festival , his world career began, which took him to the great opera houses of the world, above all the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera New York, and led to all international festivals, where he worked with the most important conductors such as Karl Böhm , Carlos Kleiber , Karl Richter , Carlo Maria Giulini , Colin Davis , Neville Marriner , James Levine , Claudio Abbado , Riccardo Muti , Seiji Ozawa , Giuseppe Patane , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Franz Welser-Möst and Daniel Barenboim and directors such as Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , Harry Kupfer , August Everding , Otto Schenk , Götz Friedrich , Giorgio Strehler , Franco Zeffirelli , Roman Polański , David Pountney and Robert Wilson worked together.

Since the end of the 1990s he has increasingly appeared as a singing teacher, with master classes, as a juror in singing competitions and finally from 2003 to 2016 as a professor at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart . From 2007 on he worked for two years as artistic director of the International Hugo Wolf Academy . At the International Opera Studio in Zurich he taught vocal technique and stylistic training until 2013. Within the Bertelsmann Foundation , he was a juror and lecturer as well as on the board of trustees of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation and is on the board of the European Cultural Foundation Europamusicale . In 2016, the State Secretary for Culture and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura created a chair for Francisco Araiza called “Catedra Francisco Araiza” at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Mexico City. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2017 by the University of Morelia Universidad Michoacana San Nicolas de Hidalgo , Mexico .

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Awards

Araiza has recorded over a hundred titles on CD and DVD and has received numerous awards such as the Orphèe d'Or and the German Record Prize . In 1988 he was awarded the title Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera, in 1991 the Mozart Medal of the University of Mexico City, in 1995 the Mario del Monaco Prize Otello d'Oro and the Actor Prize Goldener Merkur 1996 in Munich. In July 2011, on the occasion of his 40th singing anniversary, he was honored with the gold medal of fine arts by the Instituto de Bellas Artes y Literatura y la Compania Nacional de Opera in Mexico City .

literature

Movie

  • The beauty of the voice. One year at the international recording studio in Zurich. Documentary, Switzerland, Germany, 2011, 52 min., Script and director: Sabine Gisiger , production: unico film, Loftmusic, ZDF , arte , SRF , first broadcast: February 12, 2012 on arte, table of contents by arte and online video for Swiss people Spectator.
    Araiza can be seen here as a singing teacher at the Zurich Opera House .

CD productions

  • No Limits - Legendary Live-Recordings (SM194)
  • The Song of the Earth - Gustav Mahler (Deutsche Grammophon)

TV recordings (selection)

Web links

Commons : Francisco Araiza  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Araiza, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican singer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city