Francisco Casanova (singer)

Francisco Chahín Casanova (born October 3, 1957 in Seibo , † September 26, 2019 in Providence , Rhode Island) was a Dominican opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Casanova took singing lessons from his mother as a child and was then a student of Cuto Estévez , the director of the Seibo Municipal Orchestra. He later studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Rafael Sánchez Cestero . In 1978 he moved to New York. Until 1991 he was a student of the Italian tenor Pier Miranda Ferraro .

In 1990 he appeared on television for the first time at the Francisco Viña International Singing Festival in Barcelona, where he won first prize. In 1996 he represented Luciano Pavarotti at the Pavarotti Plus concert in the Avery Fisher Hall , where he sang parts on La Bohème , Un ballo in maschera , L'amico Fritz , La traviata , Tosca , Lucia di Lammermoor and Il trovatore . In the same year he appeared in Verdi's Requiem at the Klagenfurt City Theater .

In the following year he made his debut in Verdi's Requiem at the Spoleto Festival , appeared in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux at the Dresden Semperoper with Edita Gruberová , sang the title role in Verdi's Don Carlo on Mallorca and performed Rossini's Stabat mater with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra .

In the following years he toured the USA, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Yugoslavia and the Dominican Republic, sang Oronte in I Lombardi alla prima crociata and Alvaro in La forza del at the Metropolitan Opera and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna destino in Avignon and Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera in Klagenfurt.

In 1999 the Richard Tauber Institute of Vocal Art awarded him the Richard Tauber Medal for Vocal Excellence . In the same year Casanova made her debut at Carnegie Hall , and in 2000 at the Vienna State Opera as Eleazar in Fromental Halévy's La Juive .

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SURNAME	Casanova, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chahín Casanova, Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seibo
DATE OF DEATH	26th September 2019
Place of death	Providence