Raúl Giménez
Raúl Giménez (born September 14, 1950 in the province of Santa Fe , Argentina ) is an Argentine opera singer (tenor) who was particularly successful in operas by Mozart and in Italian bel canto of the 19th century ( Rossini , Bellini , Donizetti , Pacini ). His voice is a lyrical , very soft and lovely high tenor, a so-called tenorino or tenore di grazia , with a remarkable ability to coloratura.
Life
Raúl Giménez was born in the small town of Carlos Pellegrini in Argentina. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires . He made his debut in 1980 at the Teatro Colón as Ernesto in Don Pasquale by Donizetti.
After four years on the South American stages, he made his European debut in 1984 at the Irish Wexford Festival in Cimarosa's Le astuzie femminili . The great success led to further engagements in Geneva (in Rossini's Il turco in Italia ), at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro ( Il signor Bruschino ), at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice ( Armida von Rossini), and in Amsterdam ( Il ritorno d'Ulisse in the patria of Monteverdi ).
During the 1989/90 season he made his debut on several important international stages: at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London he sang Ernesto in Don Pasquale, and also on his US debut at the Dallas Opera ; at the Vienna State Opera he appeared as Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia .
He subsequently appeared at La Scala in Milan (in Rossini's Tancredi and La Cenerentola ), at the Paris Opera ( Lucia di Lammermoor , Il barbiere di Siviglia , I Capuleti ei Montecchi ), in Munich ( Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola , L'italiana in Algeri , Anna Bolena ) at the New York Metropolitan Opera ( Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola ), at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro ( Il signor Bruschino , L'occasione fa il ladro , Tancredi , La pietra del paragone , Adina ), in Madrid ( La Cenerentola , La sonnambula , La favorite , La pietra del paragone , Don Giovanni ). He also sang a. a. at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, in Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Verona, Genoa, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Tokyo , and at the festivals of Ravenna and Aix-en-Provence.
Raúl Giménez has a. a. worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Maurizio Benini , Bruno Campanella , Daniele Gatti , Jesús López Cobos , Evelino Pidò , Alberto Zedda and Gianluigi Gelmetti .
His career has been accompanied by a number of important recordings with various record labels and under various conductors; he sang alongside artists such as Jennifer Larmore , Cecilia Bartoli , Cheryl Studer , Lucia Valentini Terrani , Jane Eaglen, Samuel Ramey , Margarita Zimmermann and others. a.
Raúl Giménez has received numerous prizes. He regularly gives master classes, including a. at the Taller del Teatro Real in Madrid (2008–2010), at the Taller de la Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome, in São Paulo (Brazil), at the Festival Rossini in Wildbad (since 2002), at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) and at the Concertante Barcelona Academia Internacional de Música.
Giménez is now singing a new, somewhat less demanding repertoire, including Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro , Dr. Caius in Verdi's Falstaff , and the Abbé in Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea .
Discography (selection)
Complete opera recordings
- Rossini : L'italiana in Algeri , with Jennifer Larmore , John Del Carlo a . a., Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne, Jesus López-Cobos , Teldec
- Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia , with Jennifer Larmore, Håkan Hagegård , Alessandro Corbelli, Samuel Ramey , Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne, Jesús López-Cobos, Teldec
- Rossini: La Cenerentola , with Jennifer Larmore, Gino Quilico , Alessandro Corbelli , Alastair Miles , Laura Polverelli, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Carlo Rizzi , Teldec
- Rossini: L'inganno felice , Erato
- Rossini: La pietra del paragone , ROF
- Rossini: Il turco in Italia , Philips
- Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims , with Samuel Ramey , William Matteuzzi , Luciana Serra , Sylvia McNair , Lucia Valentini Terrani , Ruggero Raimondi u. a., Berliner Philharmoniker , Claudio Abbado , Sony
- Rossini: Tancredi , with Daniela Barcellona a . a., Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza (2005), TDK
- Salieri : Les Danaïdes , EMI
- Mayr : Medea in Corinto , with Jane Eaglen, Yvonne Kenny , Bruce Ford , Alastair Miles u. a., Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry , Opera Rara
- Pacini : L'ultimo giorno di Pompei , with Iano Tamar , Nicolas Rivenq a . a., Orchestra del Teatro M. Bellini Catania, Giuliano Carella, Dynamic
- Bellini : La sonnambula , with Ľuba Orgonášová u. a., The Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Alberto Zedda. Naxos
Other
- Rossini: Stabat Mater, with Luba Orgonasova, Cecilia Bartoli , Roberto Scandiuzzi, Vienna Philharmonic , Concert Association Vienna State Opera Choir, Myung-whun Chung , Deutsche Grammophon
- Rossini: Messa di Gloria, Philips
- Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle , Philips
- Rossini: Operatic Arias, with the Scottish Philharmonic Singers, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Michelangelo Veltri, Nimbus records
- Mozart : Arias, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Barry Wordsworth, Nimbus records
- Argentinian Songs ( Carlos Guastavino , Jurasky, Buchardo , Ginastera ), with Nina Walker (piano), Nimbus records
Web links
- Raúl Giménez in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Raúl Giménez at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Raúl Giménez at Discogs (English)
- Raúl Giménez Homepage (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography on the website of Raúl Giménez (Spanish, October 2016) , accessed on December 2, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giménez, Raúl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Fe , Argentina |