Ricardo Tamura

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Ricardo Tamura is a Brazilian tenor.

childhood and education

Ricardo Tamura was born in São Paulo , where he also grew up. After graduating from high school at the age of 15 due to his giftedness, he completed a double degree in geology and physics in São Paulo. He completed his studies at the age of 20 and taught in São Paulo as a lecturer in geology at the university and as a computer science and chess teacher at the Colégio Bandeirantes high school. He also completed another degree in geophysics. He also took singing lessons. On the recommendation of the opera singer Licia Albanese , Tamura received a scholarship from the New York Juilliard School of Music, where he studied singing. Further studies at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Accademia Verdiana in Busseto followed. He completed his vocal training a. a. with Marlena Maras, Carlo Bergonzi , Bernhard Lang and Licia Albanese.

Career

Tamura made his debut as a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House . Since then he has lived in Europe and is a regular guest. a. at the Hanover State Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Nuremberg State Theater, the Kassel State Theater and the Vienna Volksoper. Concerts led him a. a. to the Herkulessaal in Munich to the Cologne Philharmonic and to Japan, where he performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. He also gave concerts in Taiwan and Israel. In the summer of 2008 he performed in front of 60,000 people at the Klassik-Open Air in Luitpoldhain in Nuremberg. His concert repertoire ranges from Handel's Messiah to Joseph Haydn's Harmony Mass and Giuseppe Verdi's and Dvořák's Requiem to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Bacalov's Misa Tango . Tamura worked a. a. with conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Chen Zimbalista, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Luisi , Daniel Oren , Pier-Giorgio Morandi Lothar Koenigs , James Levine and Placido Domingo .

Ricardo Tamura is internationally known as Radamès (Aida) a. a. has already been heard in the Arena di Verona , as Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) he has guested at the Welsh National Opera Cardiff, as Erik (The Flying Dutchman) at the Festival de Opera de Belém in Brazil and as Calaf (Turandot) at the Wichita Grand Opera. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera in December 2013 as Cavaradossi (Tosca), where he could be heard in the following years as Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana), as Don Carlo in Verdi's opera of the same name and as Gustavo (A Masked Ball). Tamura is the first Brazilian tenor to play a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera.

Because of a brain hemorrhage in autumn 2017, the singer had to pause. After ten weeks of rehab, he was back on stage. Since then he has sung numerous operas from his repertoire, including a. Manaon Lescaut, Carmen and Tosca. In 2019 another role was added to his repertoire: that of Rienzi from Richard Wagner's opera of the same name. The singer currently lives in Nuremberg.

Discography

  • HW Henze: Das Wundertheater (as Chanfalla), published in 2006, ARS production
  • P. Illanes-Tatsuoka: Entre Jupiter Y Marte, published 2017, Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka

Awards

  • "Artists of the 2000/01 season", Theaterverein Osnabrück, 2001
  • Role Preparation Grant, The Sullivan Awards, N. York, 08/1997, 07/1996, 07/1994, 11/1992
  • First prize: 5 ° Concurso Internacional de Canto Carlos Gomes (Grande Concurso do Centenário), Rio de Janeiro, 07/1996
  • Finalist: 14th International Belvedere-Hans Gabor Vocal Competition, Vienna, 07/1995
  • Second Prize: The New Jersey State Opera Vocal Competition, New Jersey, 1995
  • First Prize: 1st South American Vocal Competition, Barra Bonita, Brazil, 08/1993
  • First Prize: The Loren Zachary Society Voice Competition, Pasadena (CA), 05/1993
  • Honorary Award: 3rd Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition, New Jersey, 09/1992
  • First Prize: The Licia Albanese - Puccini Foundation Auditions, N. York, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist biography at Mennicken PR Management [1]
  2. ↑ Artist biography at Theater Osnabrück [2]
  3. ↑ Artist biography at Theater Osnabrück [3]
  4. ↑ Münchner Abendzeitung: "60,000 celebrated the classic open air" (July 28, 2008). [4]
  5. ↑ Artist biography at Theater Osnabrück [5]
  6. ↑ artist biography on the official website [6]
  7. ^ Döring, R .: "Back at the Osnabrück Theater out of conviction: Tenor Ricardo Tamura", Osnabrücker Zeitung (14.01.2019). [7]
  8. ^ Rödler, P .: "The last of the tribunes", Wochenblatt Reporter (May 6, 2019). [8th]
personal data
SURNAME Tamura, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian tenor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century