Galeano Salas

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Galeano Salas (* 1988 ) is a Mexican-American opera singer (tenor).

Life

Galeano Salas grew up in Mexico and came to Texas when he was 13. There he attended high school and discovered his interest in singing. He received his bachelor's degree in this subject from the University of Houston and his master's degree from Yale University in Connecticut. He obtained his artistic diploma in 2016 from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera since the 2016/17 season. In its series of performances in April 2018, he served as an officer in Ernst Krenek 's The Dictator , and as Rupprecht in Viktor Ullmann's The Broken Jug with. In the 2018/19 season he was accepted into the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera.

He became known to a wider audience when he stepped in for Pavol Breslik, who fell ill during the evening, and the part of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi from the side of a performance of Puccini's Ilertrico at the Bavarian State Opera, which was broadcast on the internet on December 23, 2017 sang here. In the following performance and since May 2019 also in the regular cast, he staged this role.

Opera roles and engagements (selection)

Debut in role
An Italian singer ( Capriccio ) Santa Fe Opera
2016-10 Arturo Bucklaw ( Lucia di Lammermoor ) Bavarian State Opera
2017-12 Rinuccio ( Gianni Schicchi ) Bavarian State Opera
2019-04 Pong ( Turandot ) Bavarian State Opera
2019-11 Duke of Mantua ( Rigoletto ) Hungarian State Opera , Erkel Theater , Budapest
2019-12 Alfred ( The Bat ) Bavarian State Opera
2020-02 Rodolfo ( La bohème ) Cape Town Opera

Prizes and awards

  • First Prize at: The American Prize in Vocal Performance, College / University Opera Division, 2015.
  • Main prize at the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Voice Competition, 2016.
  • First male prize winner at the 29ème édition du festival lyrique de Marmande, 2017.
  • First prize and French Interpretation award at the 10ème Concours de Chant de Canari, 2017.
  • Second prize at the VI. Concurso Intenacional de Canto, Alfredo Kraus 2017, Gran Canaria.
  • Stella Maris Music Competition 2017: Audience award and possibility of a CD recording.
  • Grand Prix and Audience Award at the 3rd International Éva Marton Singing Competition, Budapest, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galeano Salas '16 tenor. Academy of Vocal Arts, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Galeano Salas, portrait on the website of the Bavarian State Opera. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Robert Braunmüller: One-act play with the opera studio in the Cuvilliéstheater. Evening newspaper, April 15, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Il trittico. With death through the centuries (review). In: Online music magazine. December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  5. ^ Cast Change: Galeano Salas To Replace Pavol Breslik. In: OperaWire. December 27, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Guillaune Saintagne: Turandot cyber-punk. In: Forumopera. July 13, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Pauline de Villiers: Review: Cape Town Opera's La Boheme. In: What's on in Cape Town. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  8. ↑ David Katz: VOCAL WINNERS: men in opera, 2015. In: The American Prize. October 16, 2015, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Tenor Galeano Salas wins Stella Maris singing competition. In: klassic.com. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Mexican-Amenican Tenor wins the 3rd International Singing Competition Èva Marton. In: Èva Marton Singing Competition. September 17, 2018, accessed December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Salas, Galeano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican-American opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Texas