Laura Alonso Padín

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Laura Alonso Padín (2014)

Laura Alonso Padín , also Laura Alonso (born January 2, 1976 in Vilagarcía de Arousa , Spain ) is a Spanish opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Laura Alonso Padín first studied violin before receiving a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and continuing her training in singing at the Karlsruhe University of Music . Her teachers included Aldo Baldin , Anna Reynolds , Jean Cox and Hartmut Höll . She currently lives in Berlin and continues her musical training under Paola Leolini in Rome.

Artistic career

Laura Alonso Padín has sung in many renowned opera houses and given concerts with the great orchestras and conductors of contemporary music life. In addition to many important European opera and concert halls, she also sang in the USA, Asia and in Arab countries. At the age of 23 she became a member of the Aalto Theater in Essen . For her achievements she received the award as the best young artist of the Aalto Theater. Her most recent projects include the interpretation of Giulia in The Silk Head by Rossini , which she gave during a European tour with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under the musical direction of Attilio Cremonesi.

In addition to all the great soprano roles in the operas by Bellini , Rossini , Donizetti , Puccini and Verdi , her repertoire also includes German and French opera literature such as Mozart, Richard Strauss or Meyerbeer and Offenbach and extends to Alban Berg's Lulu , Claude Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande or Francis Poulenc's Dialogue des Carmélites . In 2019 she sang again Violetta from La Traviata, as well as Leonora (Il Trovatore), Aida, Tosca, Turandot (leading role) and had many performances of Madama Butterfly in Morelia (Mexico), in Santiago de Compostela and in many other cities in Spain.

In addition to her career as an opera singer, she has also made a name for herself as a lieder singer. Her repertoire of songs includes compositions by Schumann, Schubert, Alban Berg, Leo Delibes, Reynaldo Hahn, Maurice Ravel, Henri Duparc and the Italians Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Franco Alfano, Leoncavallo and Respighi.

Prices

  • 1st prize at the Alfredo Kraus international singing competition
  • 1st prize at the Verviers International Singing Competition
  • 1st prize at the "Franco Corelli Competition" and at the international competition for opera singing Jaume Aragall
  • Prize of the French record critic Diapason d'or

Discography

  • Col sorriso d'innocenza Bel canto arias by Laura Alonso Padín. Conducted by Alexander Livenson. Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga. Composers and a. Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.
  • Lua Descolorida music from Galicia with Laura Alonso Padín soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Songs by Osvaldo Golijov and Antón García Abril. Label: Columna Musica, Spain.
  • Antoloxía Vol. 1 A canción de Concerto: Antoloxía Vol. 1. Laura Alonso Padín, soprano. Manuel Burgueras, piano. Cancións sobre textos literarios galegos. Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
  • Tutto Verdi Tutto Verdi from the Aalto Theater in Essen. Benefit event for the reconstruction of the La Fenice theater in Venice.
  • Na Boca Das Camelias Laura Alonso Padín, soprano. Juan Manuel Varela, piano. Music from Galicia by various composers.
  • Giulio Cesare Antonio Sartorio: Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Conducted by: Attilio Cremonesi. Innsbruck Baroque Festival. Laura Alonso Padín as Cleopatra. Label: ORF, Austria.

Web links

Commons : Laura Alonso  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater Essen, stage award
  2. ↑ Laura Alonso Padín , Weaver Artist Management, accessed June 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Alonso Padín, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alonso, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilagarcía de Arousa , Spain