Mariano Rivas
Mariano Rivas Calzada is a Spanish conductor .
Life
Mariano Rivas studied guitar, violin and piano at the Oviedo Conservatory from 1981 to 1991, then orchestral and choral conducting with Professors Karl Österreicher, Leopold Hager and Günther Theuring at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . He completed his master's degree in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder .
While still a student he began to work in the field of opera, initially as a solo répétiteur at the international opera festival in Oviedo and as a solo répétiteur with conducting duties at the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna. He made his operatic debut as a conductor in the large broadcasting hall of ORF Vienna with the world premiere of the work “Drei Bestiarien” for soprano and orchestra by Thomas Krinzinger. Mariano Rivas was musical assistant to Maestro Marcello Viotti in Vienna, Berlin, Venice and New York, to Maestro Giuliani Carella at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the opera festivals of Lucca, Liège and Toulon and worked for two years at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona as assistant to Maestro Bertrand de Billy.
Rivas was musical director of various orchestras and opera festivals, such as the “Teatro Lírico Europeo” (Castelfidardo / Ancona / Italy), “Johann Strauss Operette Vienna”, the opera choir of the international opera festival in Oviedo and the summer festival in Gijón, Spain. Guest conductors followed with orchestras such as the Moscow Virtuosi , the Spanish Radio Orchestra Madrid, the symphony orchestra of the “Tbilisi Opera and Ballet City Theater”, the orchestra of the Opera in Ankara, Turkey, the orchestra of the State Bolshoi Theater Minsk, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Asturias and the Orquesta Filarmonica de España.
Fixed engagements led Mariano Rivas as 2nd Kapellmeister to the Theater Kiel , Germany and as 1st Kapellmeister to the Opera de Madrid in Spain.
He has conducted well-known soloists such as Montserrat Caballé at the Woerthersee Classics Festival in Klagenfurt , Edita Gruberova, Dolora Zajick, Adrianne Pieczonka, Hui He, Angela Meade, Carlos Álvarez, José Bros, Simon Estés, Eduardo Villa and Keith Ikaia-Purdy u. a.
As a musicologist, Mariano Rivas reconstructed the opera “Pelagio” by Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870) with the help of the sheet music found in Lisbon, then he conducted the world premiere of the new version, with Carlos Álvarez in the title role, and made a CD recording with the “Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia” and the “Bratislava Chamber Choir”.
Mariano Rivas was the winner of international competitions, such as the 1st prize at the “Dinu Niculescu” conducting competition in Brașov, Romania, at the “II. National Competition for Young Conductors ”in Granada, Spain, and at the“ IV. Competition for conductors of the European Community 1999 ”in Spoletto, Italy.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rivas, Mariano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rivas Calzada, Mariano (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |