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As an exponent of such genuine romantic bel canto, he is one of the most in demand tenors at the world's leading theatres. He has sung more than 30 operatic and zarzuela characters, as well as a wide range of oratorios and symphonies, a repertoire that he is expanding by incorporating various roles such as the Verdi characters Alfredo (La Traviata), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), Duca (Rigoletto), Macduff (Macbeth), and Manrico (Il Trovatore), as well as Chevalier Des Grieux (Manon, by Massenet), Rodolfo (La Bohème, by Puccini) and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly, by Puccini).
Born in Santa Cruz in Tenerife, he trained in the conservatoire in his home town and at the Escuela Superior de Canto Reina Sofía in Madrid before being accepted at the Busseto Academy (Italy), where he perfected his art with Carlo Bergonzi. His international career has taken him to the most prestigious opera houses in the world, from the New York Metropolitan to La Scala in Milan, as well as the Vienna Staatsoper, the Berlin Deutsche Oper, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Royal Opera House in London, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Paris Opéra National, the Neapolitan Teatro San Carlo, the Fenice in Venice and the Massimo in Palermo, among many others in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, China, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Monte-Carlo and Chile. He has also sung a large amount of his repertoire in festivals such as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Terme di Caracalla Festival in Rome, the Castell de Peralada Festival in Spain, Savonlinna Festival, the London Proms and at Baden-Baden Festspielehaus. In Spain he is regularly invited to sing in cities such as Bilbao, Santa Cruz in Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canary, A Coruña, Seville, Oviedo, Valencia and Mahón. Currently he has more than 25 roles in his repertoire, especially from operas by Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini and Verdi. In Japan he was awarded the Ongakunotomo magazine prize and also the Guangzhou Opera in Canton (China) has named him Honorary Artistic Consultant alongside artists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
He has given recitals and concerts in the most prestigious auditoria in Spain, Japan, USA, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and England and he has collaborated with conductors such as Pappano, Mehta, Harding, Oren, Zedda, Santi, Frühbeck de Burgos, Rizzi, Pidò and Frizza.
He has been awarded the 2008 Ópera Actual Prize, the Oscar della Lirica at the International Opera Awards at the Arena di Verona (in 2010 and 2012), the Teatro Campoamor Opera Prize for Best Newcomer (2010) and Best Singer of the Season (2012), the Giuseppe Lugo Prize in Italy (2013), the Codalario Magazine Prize (2014) and the Taburiente Award (2017). In 2013 he was decorated with the Canary Island Golden Medal by the Island Government, in 2015 he was named Sabandeño de Oro and in 2016 Favourite Son by the La Laguna Council (Canary Islands).
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in Brazil with his first Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
11.03.2024
After his acclaimed Rodolfo in La Bohème last February at La Fenice in Venice, where he was hugely popular with opera-goers and critics alike, the Canary tenor is adding another Puccini role - Pinkerton - to his repertoire. He will be performing at the emblematic Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, one of the most important opera houses with the longest tradition in Brazil, on the ...
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Agenda
May 2024
La Bohème (Rodolfo)
Abao Bilbao Opera
18, 21, 24, 27 / 05 / 2024
June 2024
Concierto
Teatro Sociale di Rovigo
02 / 06 / 2024