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Celso Albelo makes his debut in Brazil with his first Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly11.03.2024After 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 15, 17, 20 and 23 March. The production is by the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, with the conductor Roberto Minczuk at the helm of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra and the Paulistano Choir. |
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Celso Albelo to debut La Boheme at La Fenice in Venice24.01.2024-The Spanish tenor adds the role of Rodolfo from Puccini's emblematic opera to his repertoire in a 2024 in which other debuts stand out such as the role of Pinkerton from Madama Butterfly (also by Puccini) and the Messe de Requiem by Camille Saint-Saëns. |
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Celso Albelo will make his debut at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile04.10.2023The Spanish tenor will perform his acclaimed Ernesto in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" at this theatre, one of the most important in Latin America. The tenor's repertoire includes various operas by the composer Donizetti, which he has sung all over the world. This production of the bel canto opera "Don Pasquale", considered the last of the great comic operas, will be performed in concert version, with Sabina Puértolas, the Spanish soprano, joining Albelo as Norina, and Chileans Ricardo Seguel and Javier Weibel taking the roles of Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta, respectively. They will be accompanied by the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Municipal Theatre Choir, all conducted by Evelino Pidò. In addition to the debut on October 5th, Celso Albelo will also sing Ernesto at the Municipal on October 10th, 12th, and 14th. |
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Celso Albelo opens the Oviedo Opera season with his first Des Grieux in Manon04.09.2023The Spanish tenor debuts the role of Chevalier Des Greux in his return to the Oviedo Opera this September, at the beginning of an intense season in which he will debut at the Ópera Nacional de Chile with Don Pasquale and will sing his first Hoffmann in Liège and his first Rodolfo from La Bohème in Venice. |
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Celso Albelo will perform with Ainhoa Arteta, this summer at the Noches Magicas Festival in Alicante.20.07.2023The Canary Islands tenor, Celso Albelo, resumes his activities this summer with a concert at one of the essential events on the Spanish summer festival scene. It will take place on August 6th at the Noches Mágicas Festival, held in the Jardines de Abril grounds in the town of Sant Joan d'Alacant, on the Costa Blanca. In this event, the Spanish singer will unite his talent with that of the soprano Ainhoa Arteta in a gala that will undoubtedly make a great impression on the audience. Both singers, who are well-established internationally, will perform a demanding program of operatic arias and songs, accompanied on the piano by Javier Carmena. |
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Celso Albelo: A winning streak with "Il Trovatore" and "I Puritani"04.06.2023The tenor from Tenerife accomplished the vocal feat of successfully singing the dreaded role of Arturo in I Puritani on Friday in Mahón, four days after captivating audiences in Bilbao with his first portrayal of Manrico in Il Trovatore. The Spanish singer performed these two vocally very contrasting roles in the same week. |
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Celso Albelo launches his album "Serenata española" at the Teatro de la Zarzuela22.03.2023Recorded recently with the Complutense University of Madrid's Pulse and Púa Orchestra, “Serenata española” is the latest CD by the tenor from Tenerife. Its unique and beautiful repertoire -which includes pasodobles, habaneras, rancheras, jotas, Mexican songs, and, of course, zarzuela- will be offered as a concert programme on March 31st at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. The Pulse and Púa Orchestra, conducted by maestro Enrique García Requena, will also perform on the occasion and Celso Albelo will be signing records for anybody in the audience who wishes it at the end of the evening. Tickets sold out a few days after the concert was announced! |
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Celso Albelo launches "APDP... en busca de la PAZ", an album recorded during lockdown01.09.2020-The Spanish tenor’s new recording includes popular songs, with a nod to opera. He is joined by Javier Camarena, Pancho Corujo, Blanca Valido and Sergio Núñez |
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Celso Albelo returns to La Fenice with his consummate Nemorino01.02.2020- The Spanish tenor will perform in L’elisir d’amore once again at the Venice opera house February 2020 After a string of triumphs both at the Barcelona Liceu (Doña Francisquita) and at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Il pirata) as well as at Oviedo Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor), in February Celso Albelo will return to the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice to sing in five performances of one of the operas that has made the Canary Island tenor famous throughout the world: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. Albelo, renowned as one of the greatest exponents of Romantic bel-canto repertoire, has taken the role of Nemorino, the lead male in L’elisir, on numerous occasions in cities such as Madrid, Palermo, Modena, Vienna, Bilbao, A Coruña and Las Palmas in Grand Canary. “I especially identify with the simplicity of the character,” the singer from Tenerife affirms, “a country man who falls in love and is too brazen and candid, but in the end achieves his goal, all because of his big heart.” Furthermore, the Donizetti opera contains a very tempting treat for the tenor which is always an incentive: “The aria ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ is a beauty, and a true pleasure to sing, almost always creating a magical moment in the theatre. It is one of those pieces which help to create intimate and almost instantaneous communication with the audience.” Albelo will perform in the first cast of the Donizetti opera on the 15th, 18th, 20th, 22nd and 25th February, in a production by Bepi Morassi, conducted by Jader Bignamini. On the 20th February, as the carnival period will have started, La Fenice offers the possibility of enhancing the performance experience with a cocktail and a DJ set at the opera house’s Sale Apollinee.
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Celso Albelo returns to Oviedo with "Lucia di Lammermoor"03.01.2020
January 2020 Considered to be one of the greatest and most acclaimed singers of bel-canto repertoire, the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo will take part in the Ópera de Oviedo season again this January in the outstanding bel-canto opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, by Donizetti. The performances of this opera will mark the closing of the 72nd opera season at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Spain. The singer from Tenerife will take the role of Edgardo once again, bringing it to Oviedo where he garnered a huge triumph in 2017 with his Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto. This appearance comes hot on the heels of his highly acclaimed performance of Gualtiero in Il pirata at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In an interview for the magazine Ópera Actual, Albelo acknowledges that the character he will perform in Oviedo “is one of the great romantic roles” and that he has been called on to sing it on repeated occasions, aiming to describe “love, and also the hate inherited from their families” with his singing. He is referring to the leading roles in the opera, members of two families that have been feuding for generations. Albelo has also referred to opera-goers in Asturias as “very demanding,” adding that they are also “always supportive and affectionate of singers’ honesty.” Later, Celso Albelo will travel to the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to take the role of Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, to Monte-Carlo Opera for Bellini’s Il pirata and to the Teatro Regio in Turin to take the lead role in a new production of La damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz. |
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Celso Albelo returns to the Liceu in Barcelona, this time with zarzuela22.10.2019-The Spanish tenor will take the lead male role in Doña Francisquita before travelling to the Teatro Real in Madrid with Bellini´s Il Pirata October 2019 The tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo will return to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in November with repertoire he has never performed at the Barcelona opera house before. In the past he has sung various bel-canto roles at the Liceu – being a renowned world expert in the genre. However, this time he will be singing in a zarzuela, taking the male lead role in Amadu Vives´ Doña Francisquita. “I like this challenge, especially as I will be participating in the return of our operatic genre to the Catalan capital, which was one of the most important centres for creating zarzuela,” the singer explains. “What´s more, this piece is of great technical and expressive complexity,” Albelo adds, “as much, or more than any opera. Zarzuela is an artistic form that, like its Italian cousin, demands the greatest excellence in its performance. Doña Francisquita, one of the universally best-known zarzuelas, is also very difficult and a real challenge for anyone that performs it.” Albelo will be performing in Doña Francisquita at the Liceu on the 10th, 15th and 17th November, as well as a special performance on the 12th, which will be projected in cinemas all around the world. “Although we singers are used to some of our performances being broadcast on radio, TV or cinemas, we are aware that this causes an extra point of tension, as the performance will reach thousands of people, many more than those who attend the theatre.” After his return to the Liceu, Celso Albelo will travel to the Teatro Real in Madrid to take the lead role in Bellini´s opera Il Pirata (1st, 4th, 7th, 17th and 20th December), and will then see the year out with his first ever Rodolfo in La Bohème (Puccini) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (27th and 29th December). Later in the season he has engagements in Oviedo, Venice, Monte-Carlo and Bilbao. |
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Celso Albelo makes his first baroque recording and brings his talent to Puccini02.09.2019The Spanish tenor is making his debut in baroque repertoire with Hasse´s Enea in Caonia, before his first Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Royal Opera in Oman. He will also open the opera season in A Coruña with a recital on the 8th September.
September 2019 Celso Albelo continues to widen his repertoire, adding the lead role from a baroque opera which is being revived and recorded in Rome, as well as his first Puccini role: the emblematic Rodolfo in La Bohème. In the first week of September, the singer will be in Rome to make the first ever recording of the opera Enea in Caonia by the baroque composer Johann Adolf Hasse. This jewel by the German composer has been forgotten for 300 years and is being revived for its first ever recording at the historical Teatro di Villa Torlonia. The recently formed Enea Barock Orchestra, which is led by the contralto Francesca Ascioti alongside the musicologists Alessio Arzilli and Giovanni Andrea Sechi, will be conducted by Stefano Montanari for the recording. This is the first incursion into baroque style for Albelo “it is an opportunity to apply my traditional bel-canto line to a way of singing which I am very comfortable with. Having begun singing the opera genre with Romantic bel-canto really helps me to take on these challenges in which one has to use phrasing charged with dramatic sentiment along with the virtuosity of the style itself.” The Spanish tenor is taking the lead male role of Niso, other cast members include Carmela Remigio, Paola Valentina Montanari and Raffaella Lupinacci. The recording will be released in 2020 with a tour of concerts which will start in Rome and continue through various European cities. Celso Albelo will once again be participating in the Opera Programme in A Coruña, where he has been performing for more than ten years for the Friends of the Opera Association of the Galician city, he is also an honorary member of the organisation. On the 8th September he will open the 2019 season at the Teatro Colón with a programme of music from Latin American opera and zarzuela, in a recital accompanied by Juan Francisco Parra on piano. In October, the singer will take an important new step in his career by taking on his first Puccini role, and it will be Rodolfo in La Bohème, no less. “This is an emblematic role for every tenor, and in my case, what´s more, this will be a dream come true. This challenge has been following me for a long time and has arrived at just the right moment. The character is endearing, as is the popular story of these bohemians. The music is extraordinary and was created by one of the greatest geniuses of musical theatre of all time. It is true that the orchestra for a Puccini opera is much denser than the orchestra used for bel-canto, but I have been preparing myself for months in order to be able to deal with this in the best way possible. The truth is that I love the role,” the singer explains. He will be making his debut as Rodolfo at the Royal Opera House Muscat, in the Sultanate of Oman. On this occasion, Giuseppe Finzi will be conducting the Monte-Carlo Opera choir and Philharmonic Orchestra in a Jean-Louis Grinda production, with the soprano Irina Lungu as Mimì. |
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Celso Albelo, from Orange to the Canary Islands26.06.2019-The Spanish tenor celebrates the Choregies d´Orange Festival´s 150th anniversary and will give two concerts in the Canary Islands after his Japanese tour
June 2019 The tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo is preparing to return to the Chorégies d’Orange Festival (France), the oldest opera festival in the world, which will be celebrating its 150th anniversary this summer. He has just returned from his tour of various Japanese cities with the Bologna Teatro Comunale company, singing the role of the Duke in Rigoletto. In Orange, where he has already sung that same Verdi role, the Spanish tenor will be taking on the incredibly demanding role of Arnold in Rossini´s Guillaume Tell (12th July), which is one of the most complex characters the composer conceived for his serious repertoire. Albelo knows the role very well, having sung it before both in Monte-Carlo and Paris. Immediately after the festival (19th July) he and the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena will give a concert together at the exclusive Costa Adeje golf club in Tenerife, accompanied by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. The concert will be a true duel between the two most acclaimed light lyric tenors of the moment. Later, on the 27th July, Celso Albelo will give a concert with two other Canary Island tenors, his friends Jorge de León and Francisco Corujo, in a musical evening which has become one of the greatest summer attractions at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The concert is entitled En Amistad (In Friendship) and celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra. Celso Albelo will begin the 2019-20 season in A Coruña in his return to the Galician city´s Friends of the Opera programme. This time he will be giving a recital on the 8th September in which, alongside the pianist Juan Francisco Parra, he will perform repertoire from the record he has recently released, Íntimamente (Sony), before his eagerly awaited debut as Rodolfo de La Bohème at the Muscat Royal Opera House in the Sultanate of Oman in October. |
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Celso Albelo returns to Tokyo with "Rigoletto"28.05.2019May 2019 Verdi continues to appear in the tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo´s repertoire over the next few weeks. After his return to Valencia with his acclaimed Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) and performing Rossini´s Stabat Mater in Paris, the Spanish singer will travel to Japan, where his triumphant performances have consolidated his position as one of the great opera stars of the moment. In Japan he will once again take the role of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto on the 15th, 18th, 21st and 23rd June, in the cities of Nagoya, Otsu and Tokyo, as a special guest on a tour by the Teatro Comunale Bolonia company (Italy). Alongside the Canary Island singer will be the Sicilian soprano Desirée Rancatore, as Gilda, and Alberto Gazale in the role of Rigoletto. This summer Celso Albelo will return to the Chorégies d'Orange Festival (12th July), this time taking on the difficult role of Arnold in Rossini´s Guillaume Tell, - an opera with which he garnered great success some seasons ago at the Monte-Carlo Opera and at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris-. He will also give two concerts in the Canary Islands, one alongside the tenor Javier Camarena (19th July in Costa Adeje, Tenerife) and another with Jorge de León and Pancho Corujo (17th July in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Las Palmas).
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Celso Albelo returns to the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto10.04.2019
April 2019 Celso Albelo, who hails from Tenerife, is the most important Spanish tenor of his generation. He returns to the Valencia Palau de Les Arts this May with an opera which he has performed on multiple occasions around the world, Giuseppe Verdi´s Rigoletto. Albelo will take the role of the libertine Duke of Mantua, which means he will be singing one of the most emblematic and popular arias ever written, “La donna è mobile”. “The truth is that the Duke is a fascinating character,” the tenor explains. “A man who mixes political power with a type of personal tyranny which means he is really quite a morally reprehensible person. In any case, it is clear that he is interested in Gilda, who, deluded, gives her life for him. However, it is likely that the Duke of Mantua is only interested in spending a couple of nights with her. I doubt that what he feels is love.” In recent seasons Celso Albelo has taken the Verdi role to opera houses such as the Wiener Staatsoper, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Comunale in Bolonia, the Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville, Monte-Carlo Opera, Oviedo Opera, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, as well as the Choregiés d’Orange Festival in France. The Spanish tenor will perform the opera in Valencia on the 11th, 14th, 17th, 19th and 22nd May alongside Leo Nucci as Rigoletto, alternating with Vladimir Stoyanov, and conducted by Roberto Abbado. This opera comes after his performance as Riccardo Percy in Donizetti´s Anna Bolena at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium) and before singing Rossini´s Stabat Mater in Paris and his participation in the revival of the opera Il Paria in London, which will be recorded on CD. Later he will take the role of the Duke of Mantua again in a tour of Japan with the Bologna Teatro Comunale company. |
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Celso Albelo, star of a new Anna Bolena in Belgium22.03.2019- The Spanish tenor will sing in the Donizetti opera alongside Olga Peretyatko |
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Celso Albelo returns to the Barcelona Liceu with "Hamlet"25.02.2019The tenor will also give masterclasses in the Canary Islands and a charity concert February 2019 After singing the first Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (Verdi) of his career –at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples–, the Canary Island tenor Celso Albelo returns to Spain in March to perform at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona another time, and lead various activities in the Canary Islands. On the 7th and 10th March Albelo will take the role of Laërte in two performances of Hamlet in a revival of the forgotten opera by Ambroise Thomas at the Liceu in Barcelona. He will be performing alongside Diana Damrau as Ophélie and Carlos Álvarez in the role of Hamlet in concert format, conducted by Daniel Oren. Later, from the 13th to the 15th March, the tenor will travel to Las Palmas in Gran Canaria to teach masterclasses. The sessions will be open to singers of any age and experience and will take place at the Mapfre Guanarteme Foundation in the Grand Canary capital. Enrolment is open until the 2nd March. The following day, on the 16th March, the outstanding tenor will give a recital at the Teatro Leal in La Laguna (on Tenerife) in aid of the Villa Feliz Association (16th March).
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Celso Albelo adds to his Verdi repertoire08.01.2019- The Spanish tenor will sing his first Verdi Requiem and make his debut as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera in Naples January 2019 Giuseppe Verdi operas mark a turning point in the career of any opera singer, which is what the acclaimed Spanish tenor Celso Albelo is experiencing, as in January and February he will add two new Verdi titles to his repertoire. On the 19th and 20th January he will perform Verdi´s Messa da Requiem for the first time at the Canary Islands International Music Festival (first in the Adán Martin auditorium in Tenerife and the following day at the Alfredo Kraus auditorium in Las Palmas, Grand Canary). He will then travel to the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Italy) where he will make his debut in the role of Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera between the 23rd and the 28th February. With the tenor part in the Requiem and the lead role in Un ballo in maschera – which is complex from both a musical and a dramatic point of view –, Albelo continues to broaden his repertoire, applying to it all the elegance and virtuosity that his bel-canto singing is known for. These new titles are added to the three other Verdi operas which he has previously sung: Falstaff –from the beginning of his career–, Rigoletto and, later, La Traviata. The roles of the Duke of Mantua and Alfredo from the last two operas have brought huge success to Celso Albelo´s career.
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Celso Albelo makes his debut as Romeo19.04.2018-The Spanish tenor will take the lead male role in Gounod´s Roméo et Juliette for the first time this May, before returning to Naples for La Traviata April 2018 After his engagement in Valladolid, the Spanish tenor will return to the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, this time to take the role of Alfredo Germont in La Traviata again on the 20th and 22nd May alongside a Violetta sung by soprano Nino Machaidze and conducted by Jordi Bernàcer. Albelo made his debut in this Verdi role at Guangzhou Opera House (China) in 2013 and later took the role in the A Coruña Friends of the Opera season in 2014. |
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Celso Albelo returns to Palermo with "I Puritani"19.03.2018-The Spanish tenor with the greatest international presence will perform the opera in which he triumphed last December in Monte-Carlo March 2018 After his triumph at the Opéra Monte-Carlo (Monaco) last December in the lead role of I Puritani, the Canary Island tenor Celso Albelo will return to the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in April, with this extremely demanding Bellini opera to give four performances on the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th April. The Spanish singer, who is a specialist in the bel-canto genre, continues to garner triumphs with repertoire suited only to virtuosos and which his talent has allowed him to make his own. He has an impressive arsenal of resources, including elegant phrasing, strength throughout his register and a particular brilliance in the high and extra high register. Proof of all this is his recent success both in Monte-Carlo with I Puritani and in the Ópera de Florencia with Donizetti´s La Favorite, a great challenge for any tenor. His strong personal resonance with Romantic bel-canto does not stop Celso Albelo from exploring other repertoire, such as French operas like Werther, Les Pêcheurs de Perlesand Gounod´s Romeo et Juliette –in which he will make his debut this May in Valladolid with the Barcelona Liceu Company– or Verdi operas: one of his upcoming engagements is at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Alfredo in the popular Traviata by Verdi. Another of Albelo's passions is Spanish and South American popular song, which he explores in Íntimamente, his recent record for Sony, and which also features in his diary for this season. In March he performed part of the repertoire of this CD in an intimate recital at the Clasijazz Hall in Almeria. |
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Celso Albelo returns to Florence with “La Favorite”15.01.2018– The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino stages La Favorite again, the French version of the popular Donizetti opera, with the Spanish tenor in the male lead role January 2018 |
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Celso Albelo will debut in Massenet´s "Manon" in Bilbao18.12.2017- The Spanish tenor will take the role of the Chevalier Des Grieux for the first time in his return to Bilbao after having sung Rigoletto in Genoa alongside Carlos Álvarez and Leo Nucci December 2017 After ending the year with his stunning Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (23rd, 27th and 29th December) alongside two of the most renowned singers in the lead role, Carlos Álvarez and Leo Nucci, the acclaimed Canary Island tenor Celso Albelo will return to the Bilbao Association of Friends of the Opera (ABAO-OLBE) season in January with performances on the 20th, 23rd, 26th and 29th. This time he will be adding a new role to his already extensive repertoire: the Chevalier Des Grieux in the opera Manon, by Jules Massenet, alongside the soprano Irina Lungu in the title role. In this way, and from a spring-board of Italian bel-canto, Albelo continues to deepen his knowledge of French repertoire, “a journey among romantic characters which sing in the French language, which implies different musical development from Italian opera. Trying to decipher it is a challenge, because although there are many points in common with Italian singing, there are also great differences. Finding the key to this type of phrasing demands maturity. The orchestra is heavier and the harmonic treatment is much richer because it describes the emotional states of the characters, something which is very present in Massenet.” In recent seasons, Celso Albelo has been widening his palette of characters from French repertoire with titles such as Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet, Salerno Opera), Guillaume Tell (Rossini, Monte-Carlo Opera and Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris. Werther (Massenet, Teatro Comunale in Bologna), Thaïs (Massenet, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona) and La favorite (Donizetti, Opéra Royale de Wallonie), to which this season he has added Roméo et Juliette (Gounod, with the Barcelona Liceu Company at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid) and La damnation de Faust (Berlioz, Palau de Les Arts de Valencia). With regard to the role he is to make his debut in at ABAO-OLBE, Albelo feels that the Chevalier Des Grieux is “the romantic figure par excellence, who loves Manon more than anything and will forgive her anything. He will even give up his principles for her.” |
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The Spanish tenor Celso Albelo returns to Monte Carlo24.11.2017- The singer from Tenerife will return to the Principality of Monaco to perform in I Puritani December 2017 Celso Albelo will return to Monte Carlo (Monaco) at the beginning of the month to take on the terrifying role – due to its difficulty – of Arturo de I Puritani (Bellini, 3rd and 6th December), an opera in which he sang last summer at the Savonlinna Festival (Finland) alongside the soprano Jessica Pratt and the Madrid Teatro Real Company. This is not the first time the Spanish tenor will be meeting Monacan opera-goers, as he has already performed in Rigoletto (Verdi), La Sonnambula (Bellini) and Guillaume Tell (Rossini) there. With the last opera he travelled, alongside the Monte Carlo opera Company, to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where he garnered an unforgettable personal triumph. “Singing in Monaco is a pleasure, because the audiences are very affectionate. The opera house, which is joined to the famous casino, es a marvel of theatre architecture, created by the same architect as the Ópera de Paris. But this Puritani, being in concert format, will be performed at the modern Rainier III Auditorium, alongside the Monte Carlo Orchestre Philharmonique,” the singer explains. Later, Albelo will travel to the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Italy, 23rd, 27th and 29th December) with his acclaimed Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and all of this will happen after making his debut in the role of Fernand in La Favorite (Donizetti) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Lieje, Belgium) and before incorporating a new role into his repertoire, that of Le Chevalier des Grieux in Manon (Massenet) in the ABAO-OLBE Bilbao opera season (20th, 23rd, 26th and 29th Janurary 2018). |
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Celso Albelo, king of bel canto05.10.2017- After receiving the 2017 Taburiente Prize in October, the tenor will sing Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi to then take on his first Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet´s Manon October 2017 French repertoire is continuing to enlarge the wide gallery of characters that appear in the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo´s curriculum vitae. Renowned as one of the most outstanding performers of Romantic bel canto repertoire of his generation, in November Albelo will incorporate the role of Fernand from Donizetti´s opera La Favorite in its French version. Later on he will once again make a debut in the language of Victor Hugo before French-speaking public, this time at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, in Liège (Belgium). The performances will take place on the 16th, 19th, 22nd, 25th and 28th November. Among Albelo´s upcoming engagements is another French opera, although it is a far cry from Donizetti´s bel-canto, being an opera by Massenet. This will be when the tenor makes his debut in the role of Chevalier Lescaut in Manon, one of the masterpieces of French repertoire, which is planned for the end of January within the ABAO-OLBE season in Bilbao (performances are on the 20th 23rd, 26th and 29th January 2018). On the 19th October Albelo will be awarded the 2017 Taburiente Prize which is bestowed by the Diario de Avisos (newspaper) Foundation in recognition of “professional excellence, talent, creativity and work that benefits society, people and organisations in all fields and latitudes” – and will be in the company of the journalists Luis del Olmo and Juan Cruz in a gala at the Teatro Guimerá in Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria. After this, Celso Albelo will return to the Monte-Carlo Opera (Monaco) to sing his unparalelled Arturo in I Puritani (Bellini), the opera with which he toured Finland this summer with the Madrid Teatro Real company. This will be at the beginning of December, a month in which he will also sing one of his most acclaimed roles, the controversial co-leading role of Rigoletto, the Duke of Mantua, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Italy), one of the few Verdi operas that Albelo has in his repertoire. The tenor from Tenerife will be in Monte-Carlo on the 3rd and 6th December to then go to Genoa where he will perform on the 23rd, 27th and 29th December. |
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Celso Albelo returns to A Coruña with ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ and launches a record20.09.2017- The Spanish tenor will launch his latest recording, Íntimamente (Sony) in Galicia, will be awarded the A Coruña Friends of the Opera gold insignia and will sing Lucrezia Borgia at the sixty-year-old Galician season.
20th September 2017 The most international Spanish opera singer, the Canary Island tenor Celso Albelo, continues to consolidate his stratospheric career in a season full of debuts and new projects. After his recent accolade as the Favourite Son of his city of birth, La Laguna (Tenerife), Albelo will begin the season on the 9th September with a performance at the Rossini Gala in homage to the conductor Alberto Zedda, who died this year, organised by the A Coruña Friends of the Opera. On Thursday 21st September in the same Galician city Celso Albelo will launch his first solo record, Íntimamente (released by SONY Classical España), which includes songs written by Spanish and Latin American composers and which Albelo recorded at the El Ferrol Auditorium last year. During the function, which will take place at the Afundación Press Room (12h) and will be attended by members of A Coruña opera, the tenor will be awarded the A Coruña Friends of the Opera gold insignia which will give him honorary membership of the organisation. Also in the A Coruña season, in which Albelo has collaborated for over a decade, the tenor will take the part of Gennaro in Donizetti´s Lucrezia Borgia, – a role in which he made his debut last season at the New York Metropolitan. This time he will be accompanied by the veteran Italian soprano Mariella Devia as the female lead (Saturday, 23rd September at the Teatro Colón in A Coruña; 8pm). Celso Albelo's upcoming engagements include five performances of La Favorite (Donizetti) in November at the Opéra Royal de Liège Wallonie (Belgium). After that there will be engagements at the Monte-Carlo Opera (I Puritani), the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Rigoletto), ABAO-OLBE in Bilbao (his debut as Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet´s Manon), Florence Opera (La Favorite), the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid (his debut as Romeo in Gounod´s Roméo et Juliette) and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia (his debut as Faust in La Damnation de Faust, by Berlioz), among others.
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Celso Albelo, from Minorca to Montpellier and from Orange to Savonlinna15.05.2017-The Canary Island tenor will sing in Lucia di Lammermoor in Mahon, Rigoletto at the Chorégies d'Orange Festival and I Puritani at Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival and Savonlinna Opera Festival. May 2017 After Leicester in Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) in Genoa, the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo will return to the role of Edgardo, the male lead in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) in June in the Teatre Principal in Mahon (Minorca, 2ndand 4th),where Albelo will reconnect with the audience of the Amics de S’Òpera (Friends of the Opera), conducted by José Miguel Pérez Sierra, who is the Spanish conductor most specialised in Romantic bel-canto. The Duke of Mantua, the libertine and provocative male lead of Verdi´s Rigoletto, will once again figure among the singer´s engagements this summer, when he will make his debut at the prestigious Chorégies d’Orange Festival (France, on the 8th and 11th July), one of the most important festivals in Europe, as well as the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival, where he will debut with I Puritani (July 15). and that of Savonlinna, in Finland, where Celso Albelo has been invited to perform in a production of I Puritani by the Madrid Teatro Real Company on the 31st July and the 3rd August. The tenor took the lead role in the Emilio Sagi production of this opera that was staged at the Madrid opera house in July last year. |
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Celso Albelo returns to Genoa with “Maria Stuarda”27.03.2017-The Spanish tenor continues his Italian tour: after his triumph with I Puritani in May he will perform Maria Stuarda at the Carlo Felice in Genoa. April 2017 This time he will return to the Carlo Felice with a very different, serious and dramatic role. It was as Leicester that the singer made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York last year, to great acclaim. In his own words, Maria Stuarda is an opera “that has everything, political intrigue and a love story,” he explains. “There is love for a woman and for power, making this a very up-to-date story. My role takes me to the heart of a rivalry between two women, two queens who I encourage to make peace with each other, without managing to achieve it”. The Spanish tenor will perform the Donizetti opera in Genoa on the 17th, 21st, 24th and 28th May in a Alfonso Antoniozzi production conducted by Andriy Yurkevych. |
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Celso Albelo returns to the Liceu and goes on tour to Italy31.01.2017-The Spanish tenor will sing Thaïs in Barcelona and I Puritani in various Italian cities. February 2017 After his triumph as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi´s Rigoletto in his debut at Oviedo Opera, the tenor Celso Albelo will head for Barcelona to perform at the Liceu once again, this time in the role of Nicias in Massenet´s Thaïs. Albelo will show Liceu opera-goers another of his facets with this Romantic character from French repertoire, as so far he has only sung the bel-canto roles of Bellini´s La Sonnambula and I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the opera house on The Ramblas. In March he will return to the Liceu and share the stage with Plácido Domingo; both singers have already worked together in the past, on which occasion the legendary Spanish singer defined Albelo as “the number one Spanish tenor.” They will both give two performances of this little performed masterpiece from the French repertoire in concert format on the 1st and 4th March. Patrick Fournillier will conduct and other soloists will be the sopranos Nino Machaidze and Sara Blanch. Later, Albelo will be Arturo in I Puritani on a tour of three Italian theatres: the Comunale in Modena (16th and 19th March), the Municipale in Piacenza (24th and 26th March) and the Municipale in Valli (Reggio Emilia, 30th March and 2nd April). Further ahead, and among other performances, he will be singing Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Rigoletto at the Chorégies d'Orange Festival (France). |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut at Oviedo Opera with Rigoletto21.12.2016-His Duke of Mantua –recently acclaimed in Bologna–will return to his wicked ways once again, this time to close the Oviedo Opera season. December 2016 |
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The tenor Celso Albelo makes his Italian debut as Werther23.11.2016- After his triumph at the Comunale in Bologna with the Duke in Rigoletto, the outstanding Spanish tenor will take the title role in Werther at the same theatre. |
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Celso Albelo to sing Rigoletto and Werther in Italy31.10.2016-The Spanish tenor will sing the role of the Duke in Rigoletto and the title role of Werther at the Comunale in Bologna November 2016 Celso Albelo will exchange Donizetti for Verdi and Massenet in the heart of Italy. After his great success in Bilbao with his first Gennaro in Donizetti´s Lucrezia Borgia with which he opened the ABAO-OLBE season, the Canary Island tenor will return to Italy to take on two operas with opposing characteristics at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. He will be the Duke of Mantua in Verdi´s Rigoletto on the 8th, 10th, 13th 15th and 17th November, alongside the soprano Irina Lungu and the baritone Vladimir Stoyanov, conducted by Renato Palumbo. A few weeks later (on the 16th, 20th and 23rd December), Albelo will make his Italian debut in the role of Werther after having played this Massenet character in Tenerife at the beginning of the year. This is a new Comunale production directed by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Michele Mariotti. Albelo will share the role with the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez on alternate evenings. |
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Celso Albelo opens the Bilbao season with “Lucrezia Borgia”28.09.2016-The Canary Island tenor makes his debut in the role of Gennaro in the Donizetti opera Lucrezia Borgia, opening the ABAO-OLBE opera season. September 2016 After this Lucrezia Borgia, Celso Albelo continues with his unstoppable international career: in November he will participate in Rigoletto at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Italy), where he will then, in December, become the tragic hero par excellence by taking the title role of Werther by Massenet. |
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Celso Albelo celebrates the 10th anniversary of his debut in Spain and returns to the Bolshoi with “Don Pasquale”08.08.2016-After an incredibly busy season and singing Maria Stuarda this summer in Slovakia, the Spanish tenor will celebrate his debut in Spain before returning to Moscow. August 2016 Described by Plácido Domingo as “the number one Spanish tenor”, Albelo will later return to the Bolshoi in Moscow for a new series of performances of Don Pasquale (Donizetti, 22nd and 24th September), which was the opera he made his debut in at the theatre last April, before opening the ABAO-OLBE season in Bilbao with Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti, on the 22nd, 25th, 28th and 31st October) and travelling to the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Italy) for November and December, where he will perform Verdi’s Rigoletto (8th, 10th, 13th, 15th and 17th November) and Massenet’s Werther (16th, 20th and 23rd December). |
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Celso Albelo sees out the season as Leicester in Slovakia13.07.2016-After singing I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Barcelona and I Puritani en Madrid and making debuts in New York and Moscow, the Spanish tenor rounds off the season with Maria Stuarda in Slovakia. July 2016 Recently Celso Albelo had engagements in Madrid, closing the concert cycle season at the Juan March Foundation and returning to the Teatro Real with Bellini´s I Puritani. After his Slovakian debut the Spanish tenor will begin the next season with a return to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow with Don Pasquale (Donizetti) in September. |
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Celso Albelo returns to Madrid after his performances in New York, Moscow, Berlin and Barcelona24.05.2016- After singing I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Berlin and Barcelona and making his debut at the Met in New York and at the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Canary Island tenor will return to the Teatro Real with I Puritani and will give a recital at the March Foundation. May 2016 Later on, in July, Albelo will once again take the stage at the Teatro Real in Madrid as the male lead in I Puritani (6th, 13th and 19th July), one of Bellini´s masterpieces and a challenge for any tenor due to its technical and dramatic demands. This will be a new production by the Madrid opera house in conjunction with the Municipal in Santiago de Chile which is being directed by Emilio Sagi. The maestro Evelino Pidò will conduct. |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut at the Bolshoi in Moscow and returns to the Liceu24.03.2016- After his debut in the emblematic role of Werther, and performing I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Berlin, the Canary Island tenor returns to Barcelona to participate in the Bellini opera once again, after making his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Don Pasquale. April 2016 In Berlin Albelo was triumphant as Tebaldo alongside the American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Romeo. The pair will coincide in Barcelona for two performances on the 25th and 28th of April. In his other two performances the tenor will share the stage with the Spanish mezzo Silvia Tro Santafé (on the 22nd and 31st). The opera is co-produced by the Munich Bayerische Staatsoper and San Francisco Opera, directed by Vincent Boussard and conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
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Celso Albelo gets ready for his debut as Werther23.02.2016-After his acclaimed debut at the Met in New York as Leicester in Maria Stuarda, the Spanish tenor is preparing himself to take the emblematic role of Werther for the first time and to sing I Capuleti e I Montecchi in Berlin and Barcelona. February 2016 While his debut at the legendary Metropolitan Opera House in New York is still recent – as Leicester in Maria Stuarda, by Donizetti– the tenor from Tenerife, Celso Albelo, is readying himself for a new challenge in his career: singing his first Werther, the lead role in the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet, a milestone on the path of every lyric tenor. Adding this role to his repertoire coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Canary Island tenor Alfredo Kraus´ debut as Werther, which then became one of the legendary singer´s pet roles. Albelo will make his debut as Werther in his homeland, Tenerife, in three performances which he will give at the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín on the 12th, 16th and 19th March, in a new production by the Italian director Giorgia Guerra and the conductor Evelino Pidò. Before taking on this fabulous romantic character, Celso Albelo will return to the Deutsche Oper in Berlin to sing the role of Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini); there will be two performances in concert version, conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni alongside the mezzo Joyce DiDonato as Romeo and the rising star Venera Gimadieva as Giulietta. Later on, in May, the Spanish tenor will take the same role in his return to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in the New York Metropolitan Opera House08.01.2016-The Spanish tenor will sing for the first time at the legendary American theatre. He will take the role of Roberto, Earl of Leicester, in Maria Stuarda, by Gaetano Donizetti. December 2015 Celso Albelo has already started rehearsals for what is going to be his debut in the New York Metropolitan Opera House, the last of the great opera houses on his list to conquer. The Spanish tenor will appear as Roberto Earl of Leicester, the male lead of Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), and will give seven performances of the opera at the legendary American theatre on the 29th January and the 1st, 5th, 8th, 11th, 16th and 20th February 2016. Albelo made his debut in this character in Catania in 2009, and took the role again in the Tenerife Opera House to round off a 2015 full of triumphs in which he opened the season at the Vienna Staatsoper in Rigoletto, returned to the same opera house with Anna Bolena (alongside Edita Gruberova), sang Rossini´s Stabat Mater at the Monte-Carlo Opera House, closed the season at the Menorcan Opera Foundation and made his debut at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Liège, Belgium) with Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Jesús López Cobos. After his New York debut, the most international Spanish tenor of the moment will take the role of Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin before making his debut in the title role of Werther (Massenet) at the Tenerife Opera House, another great professional challenge for the season. |
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Celso Albelo sees the year out with a view to Venice and New York01.12.2015- The Spanish tenor rounds off 2015 by performing in the New Year’s Eve concert at the La Fenice Theatre in Venice, before his long-awaited debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. December 2015 |
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Celso Albelo closes the Menorca season and makes his debut at the Opéra Royal de Liège Wallonie21.10.2015-The tenor from Tenerife will participate in the closing concert of the opera season in Port Mahon as a star guest and will make his debut in Liège (Belgium) in Lucia di Lammermoor |
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Celso Albelo faces an autumn full of new challenges16.09.2015-After opening the season at the Vienna Staatsoper, the tenor from Tenerife will sing in Monaco, Austria, Belgium and Tenerife September 2015 Celso Albelo continues with his intense schedule this new season, with a diary full of exciting challenges. He opened the season at the Vienna Opera House with his acclaimed Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and this same month (on the 20th) he returns to Monaco, this time to perform Rossini’s Stabat Mater, which he performed in August in San Sebastian and Santander alongside the legendary Alberto Zedda-, this time he will be joined by the Monte-Carlo Orchestre Philharmonique and the Hungarian Radio Chorus and will be conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti. A highlight of October is his return to the Austrian capital, to perform once again at the Wiener Staatsoper with an opera which he performed in the same opera house last season: Anna Bolena, by Donizetti. He will give four performances on the 9th, 14th, 19th and 23rd in an Eric Génovèse production conducted by Evelino Pidò; shining alongside Albelo as Lord Percy will be the veteran Edita Gruberova as Ann Boleyn, Sonia Ganassi as Jane Seymour and Marco Vinco as Henry VIII. In November the tenor is to make his debut at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Liège, Belgium), where he will give six performances (on the 17th, 20th, 22nd, 25th and 28th November and the 1st December) of one of his favourite operas: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, an opera in which he has triumphed throughout Europe and Asia. In Liège he will be joined by the French soprano Annick Massis and conducted by the Spanish maestro Jesús López Cobos. Then in December (on the 12th) Albelo will return to his home island, Tenerife, where he will sing in a concert version of Maria Stuarda also by Donizetti, taking the role of Robert Leicester, alongside the fellow Canary Islander, soprano Yolanda Auyanet as Mary Stuart and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, once again conducted by Evelino Pidò. This engagement will warm him up for his long-awaited debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera, which will take place in January 2016 with the same opera, which is the last of the bel-canto composer’s thrilling Tudor Trilogy. |
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Celso Albelo to open the season at the Vienna Opera House06.07.2015- The Spanish tenor returns to the Austrian temple to opera with his acclaimed Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto July 2015 The 2015-16 season is shaping up to be full of new challenges for Celso Albelo. On the 4th, 7th, 10th and 13th September the tenor from Tenerife will once again appear on stage at the Wiener Staatsoper, where the new season at this top Austrian opera house is opening with Rigoletto, one of the most often performed operas by Giuseppe Verdi. With his Duke of Mantua, a character which he has portrayed in theatres such as the San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, the Monte-Carlo Opera House, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the A Coruña Opera House and the Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville, Albelo will begin a brilliant season which includes other outstanding engagements such as Anna Bolena also in Vienna, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium), his long-awaited debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Maria Stuarda and his return to theatres such as the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona with I Capuleti e i Montecchi and the Teatro Real in Madrid with I Puritani. In the Vienna performances of Rigoletto Albelo will be sharing the stage with Ambrogio Maestri (Rigoletto), Aleksandra Kurzak (Gilda), Michele Pertusi (Sparafucile) and Elena Maximova (Maddalena), and they will be conducted by Evelino Pidò. The opening performance on the 4th September will be broadcast live all over the world as well as being projected on a huge screen opposite the Vienna City Hall (in the popular Rathausplatz). After his recent success in his Australian debut, singing I Puritani at the Victorian Opera, Albelo will arrive in Vienna in September after a summer in which he is also appearing in Macerata with Rigoletto (17th, 25th, 31st July and 9th August) at the Quincena Musical in San Sebastian and the Santander International Festival (25th and 26th August respectively) with Rossini’s Stabat Mater, alongside the Orquesta de Cadaqués, conducted by Alberto Zedda. |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in Australia and returns to Italy and Spain08.06.2015- The Spanish tenor will travel to Melbourne this summer to perform in I Puritani, to Macerata (Italy) to take the role of his acclaimed Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and to Spain to take part in the Quincena Musical Festival in San Sebastian and in the Santander International Festival with performances of Rossini’s Stabat Mater June 2015 The tenor Celso Albelo, who is undoubtedly one of the Spanish singers most active on the international opera circuit, is looking forward to a summer full of engagements. In 2015 he has performed at some of the most important theatres in Europe such as Monte-Carlo Opera House (Guillaume Tell), the Parisian Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Guillaume Tell), the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena (L’Elisir d’amore), the Teatro Regio in Parma (L’Elisir d’amore), Vienna Opera House (Anna Bolena) and the Tenerife Auditorium (Anna Bolena), among others, and in July he will add a new theatre to his diary, making his debut in one of his favourite roles: Arturo in Bellini’s I Puritani, at the Melbourne Arts Centre; this will be on the 2nd July in a gala performance with the Orchestra Victoria, conducted by Richard Mills, and with renowned colleagues such as the Australian soprano Jessica Pratt as Elvira. After his Australian debut, Albelo will travel to Italy once again, which is where he has developed his career to a large extent. This time he will portray the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Arena Sferisterio in Macerata; this Verdi character has brought the tenor from Tenerife a great deal of joy, since he has sung this role in theatres such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In Macerata he will sing on the 17th, 25th and 30th July and on the 9th August, the rest of the cast includes Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Jessica Nuccio (Gilda) and Nino Surguladze (Maddalena), conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta. In August Celso Albelo will return to Spain to sing Rossini´s Stabat Mater at the Quincena Musical Festival in San Sebastian (25th) and at the Santander International Festival (26th); on both occasions Albelo will be joined by the Orquesta de Cadaqués, the Orfeón Donostiarra Choir, the soprano María José Moreno, the mezzo-soprano Mariana Pizzolato and the baritone Nicola Alaimo, all conducted by Alberto Zedda.
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Celso Albelo, on tour in Spain24.04.2015- The tenor from Tenerife will perform at an opera gala in Lanzarote alongside Jorge de León and Pancho Corujo; he will give a recital in Ferrol and will sing Anna Bolena in Tenerife April 2015 So far this year Celso Albelo’s performances have taken him to Monte Carlo, Paris, Tenerife, Modena, Parma and to Vienna, where he made his debut in the role of Lord Percy in Anna Bolena at the Wiener Staatsoper, alongside Anna Netrebko. Now he returns to Spain to go on a short tour before once again taking on the Donizetti role at the end of May in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, where he will be singing alongside Mariella Devia (23rd May). Beforehand, the Spanish tenor will participate in an opera gala on the 30th April, where he will be sharing the stage with two other internationally renowned Canary Island voices: alongside Albelo will be Jorge de León and Pancho Corujo. The three singers are engaged to perform at the Auditorio Jameos del Agua in Lanzarote and will be accompanied by Juan Francisco Parra on the piano. On the 2nd May Celso Albelo will once again travel to the new Auditorium in Ferrol, also with Juan Francisco Parra on piano, to give a solo recital. While Albelo remains in this Galician city he will record a CD which will cover a wide repertoire. |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in the role of Percy, in "Anna Bolena"30.03.2015- The Spanish tenor returns to the Wiener Staatsoper with this Donizetti opera, he will be performing alongside the soprano Anna Netrebko |
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Celso Albelo returns to Italy with his prizewinning Nemorino, from “L’elisir d’amore”13.02.2015The Spanish tenor will perform Donizetti´s masterpiece in Modena and Parma February 2015 |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in the lead role of Guillaume Tell11.12.2014The Spanish tenor will sing the complicated role of Arnold for the first time, in Monte Carlo and in Paris |
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Celso Albelo sings zarzuela in Valencia and pays homage to Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas05.11.2014-The Spanish tenor is soon to be performing at Palau de les Arts de Valencia, alongside Plácido Domingo, and in the Canary Islands, paying homage to the legendary Alfredo Kraus November 2014 |
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Celso Albelo sings "Roberto Devereux" in Vienna and Berlin28.10.2014- The tenor from the Canary Islands returns to delight his fans in Central Europe in the lead role of the Donizetti opera, alongside Edita Gruberova, no less |
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Celso Albelo to be awarded the Codalario Prize for Best Artist 201410.10.2014- The Spanish tenor will travel from Vienna to Madrid to collect the award as he is performing in the Staatsoper again at the moment, in the lead role of Donizetti´s masterpiece Roberto Devereux, alongside the legendary Edita Gruberova. October 2014 Celso Albelo is grateful for a prize which “rewards deep, hard and solitary work, but which turns out to be more than gratifying when the audience applauds you on stage or with awards like these” the tenor affirms, adding, “I cannot help but share it with my family, who have always been at my side supporting me.” The Codalario Prize for Best Artist 2014 joins a long list of accolades that the tenor has been awarded which include, among others, the Canary Islands Gold Medal 2013, the Ópera Actual Prize 2008, the Verona Arena Opera Oscar (2010 and 2012), the Teatro Campoamor Opera Prize for Best Newcomer 2010, and the Campoamor Prize for Best Singer in the 2012 Spanish Opera Season as well as the Giuseppe Lugo Prize 2013. The award ceremony of this second Year of the Codalario Music Prizes will take place at the Headquarters of the Architects’ Association in Madrid on Saturday 11th October at 8pm. On this occasion other prizewinners include the pianist Joaquín Achúcarro, Special Prize for an entire career 2014; the group La Ritirata (Glossa) for Best Musical Product 2014; and the Juan March Foundation, Prize for Best Musical Organization of the year. Once he has received the award, Celso Albelo will return to Vienna to take the lead role in Gaetano Donizetti´s Roberto Devereux at the Staatsoper, a role with which he will later travel to Berlin: he will perform it in concert version in the Berliner Philharmonie, accompanied by the Deutsche Oper house orchestra and choir. In both cities Albelo will share the stage with the fabulous soprano Edita Gruberova. |
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Celso Albelo will debut his acclaimed Alfredo Germont in Spain before returning to the Massimo in Palermo27.06.2014-The tenor from Tenerife will open the A Coruña Friends of Opera season in the lead role of La Traviata before singing La Fille du régiment in Palermo |
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Celso Albelo returns to Japan with Lucia di Lammermoor and for a recital tour23.05.2014The tenor from Tenerife will sing selections from the Donizetti opera in Hachioji (Tokyo) alongside the soprano Tomoko Ishibashi, after singing Arturo in I Puritani in Gran Canaria and Roberto Devereux in Florence. |
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Celso Albelo will sing Roberto Devereux before returning to Tokyo14.05.2014-The Spanish tenor will sing this Donizetti opera in the 77th year of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival before embarking on a tour of Japan |
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Celso Albelo will go to Bilbao and Las Palmas with "I Puritani"10.03.2014-The Spanish tenor will take the lead role in the Bellini opera, after having appeared in Berlin and Düsseldorf |
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Celso Albelo, invited to the AIDS gala in Düsseldorf05.02.2014-The Spanish tenor will participate in one of the events that have most impact on German society. He will also perform in Busseto, Paris and Berlin |
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Celso Albelo: love of bel-canto20.12.2013-The tenor from Tenerife begins the year in homage to Donizetti and Bellini, his return to his home island features Roberto Devereux and he will make his debut in the Barcelona Liceu in the lead role in La Sonnambula |
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Celso Albelo returns to the Teatro Real in a blaze of glory13.11.2013-The singer from Tenerife will be Nemorino in the first cast of L’elisir d’amore and take a lead role in the New Year’s concert at the Madrid Teatro de La Zarzuela
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Celso Albelo: from China to Valencia and Madrid04.10.2013-The tenor from Tenerife will give a recital at the Palau de la Música in Valencia and will be Nemorino at the Teatro Real in Madrid, after making his debut as Alfredo in La Traviata in China. October 2013 |
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Celso Abelo will sing his first Alfredo in China21.08.2013-The tenor from Tenerife will make his debut in this emblematic role in the spanking new Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid. |
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Celso Albelo returns to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro11.07.2013-The Spanish tenor’s summer agenda includes the ROF with Guillaume Tell and a Belcanto Concert The tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo never stops getting new opera engagements. Over the last seasons the Spanish singer has performed in the most prestigious opera houses in cities such as London, Vienna, Paris, Naples, Berlin, Milan and Madrid, and this summer he will return to the European circuit to beguile the Italian audience from the mythical Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. |
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The tenor Celso Albelo wins the Giuseppe Lugo prize in Italy26.06.2013-The Spanish singer will receive the award during a gala-concert in Custoza (Verona) on the 2nd July June 2013 |
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Celso Albelo, Duke of Mantua in Naples and Seville07.05.2013In the year of Verdi, the Spanish tenor will continue taking part in productions of Rigoletto in May and June, also dropping anchor in Tenerife for a concert of opera arias on June 4th. |
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The tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo continues to accumulate prizes09.04.2013- On Saturday he received the prize for Best Singer of the Spanish season |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut in “Marina” at the Teatro de la Zarzuela04.03.2013-The tenor from Tenerife sings in his first staged opera in this Madrid theatre March 2013. The singer from Tenerife Celso Albelo, one of the most sought after tenors among the most prestigious opera houses of Europe, will have a dream come true this March when for the first time in his career his will take a lead role at the Teatro de La Zarzuela: from the 15th March he will be Jorge in Arrieta’s opera “Marina”, a very popular piece but which has not been performed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela for decades. “I love this opera and I love to return to my adopted city: in La Zarzuela I saw an entire opera for the first time in my life and that made a huge impression on me”, the singer comments. Albelo has performed in various galas and concerts at the theatre, but this is the first time that he will participate in a staged opera, a new production by the director Ignacio García. In April the tenor will travel to Oviedo where he will be awarded the prize for Best Singer of the Spanish 2011-2012 season and to Bilbao, to take part in the ABAO-OLBE (Bilbao Friends of the Opera Association) concert, before performing “Petite Messe Solennelle” in Paris and Vienna and starting rehearsals for “Rigoletto” at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Italy).
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Celso Albelo returns to Monaco with "La Sonnambula"21.01.2013-The tenor from Tenerife will perform the role of Elvino, which he has already sung in London and Vienna January 2013 After his unforgettable performances of Rigoletto in the Principality of Monaco two seasons ago, the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo will return to the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on the 24th and 26th February to take the role of Elvino in La Sonnambula, “a delicious role which portrays a whole way of life typical of the Romantic era” according to Albelo. “This is a much loved character which presents a lot of challenges when you take it on, as it is technically very demanding and has a very particular dramatic profile which you have to discover in order to make it believable,” the award-winning Canarian singer points out, having already performed this role in international opera houses such as the Vienna Staatsoper and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London garnering great personal triumph in both theatres. Albelo will appear in these two performances – in concert format – conducted by Antonino Fogliani and sharing the stage with the soprano Annick Massis. The occasion is of special local interest as this Bellini opera has not been programmed in Monte Carlo since 1948. Noteworthy among Celso Albelo´s upcoming engagements are a concert with the soprano Virginia Wagner in the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona; his performance, on the 6th April, in the Campoamor Opera Award Ceremony gala in Oviedo – directed by Calixto Bieito- in which he will be awarded the prize for Best Singer of the Season; the premiere of a new production of Marina, by Arrieta, in the Teatro de La Zarzuela in Madrid; a concert for the ABAO Season in Bilbao; and a tour with Petite Messe Solennelle taking him to Paris and Vienna, all of this before starting rehearsals for Rigoletto in the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where he will premiere on the 17th May. Bellini: La Sonnambula Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Rainier III Auditorium) Sunday, 24th February 2013 – 3pm Tuesday 26th February 2013 – 8pm Conducted by: Antonino Fogliani Monte-Carlo Opera Choir Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
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The tenor Celso Albelo pays homage to Manuel Luis Medina, “El Minuto”27.12.2012Albelo has recorded the ballad Madrigal, a track on the CD Un Minuto entre amigos (A Minute among friends) which will be released in Tenerife on the 4th January. The record is a collection of the most famous songs by the composer and performer Manuel Luis Medina, also known as El Minuto, one of the most significant singer-songwriters for a whole generation of Canary Islanders, and one of the few pioneers of traditional Latin American music in Spain. The CD also features other groups and performers from the Canaries including Alma de Bolero, Manolo Vieira, José Manuel Ramos, Maricarmen González, the Beatriz Alonso Quartet, Luis Medina, Luis Morera, Encantadoras, Sergio Núñez, Isabel Padrón, Manuel Estupiñan, Troveros de Asieta, Candelaria González and Mestisay. |
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Celso Albelo sees the year out in Austria and Germany27.11.2012The Spanish tenor Celso Albelo returns to two of the principal opera houses in central Europe this December to see the old year out with two roles from leading operas of the romantic bel canto repertoire: Elvino, in Bellini´s La Sonnambula, in the Vienna Staatsoper (8th, 12th, 16th and 20th December), and Edgardo, from Donizetti´s Lucia di Lammermoor, at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (27th, 30th December). After a year crammed with debuts and good news, the most international Spanish tenor’s career continues on its unstoppable path. In November he made his debut at the Opéra National de Paris-La Bastille in La Fille du régiment, by Donizetti. The new production of La Sonnambula –with which he made his debut last year at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, should have marked his first appearance at the legendary Vienna Opera House (Staatsoper), but it will now be an anticipated return after he took the lead role for one performance of L’elisir d’amore on 6th September, replacing Rolando Villazón in the Austrian capital. In the performances of La Sonnambula this December he will be sharing the stage with Sarah Coburn (Adina) and Michele Pertusi (Conde Rodolfo), in a production by Marco Arturo Marelli conducted by Evelino Pidò. A week after the performances in Vienna, Celso Albelo will go to Berlin to give two performances of Lucia di Lammermoor, this time alongside the soprano Patrizia Ciofi in a Filippo Santjust production, conducted by the Spanish maestro Guillermo García Calvo. Noteworthy among Celso Albelo’s upcoming engagements are his return to Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées) with La Favorite, to the Monte-Carlo Opera House with La Sonnambula and to the Teatro de La Zarzuela in Madrid, with Marina (Arrieta). |
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Celso Albelo makes his debut at the Opéra National de Paris30.10.2012November 2012 This month the tenor Celso Albelo’s unstoppable career takes another giant step: his debut at the Opéra National de París (La Bastille) with one of the most complex roles in his repertoire – one which only a handful of singers can tackle due to its extreme difficulty- the affable Tonio from La Fille du régiment, by Donizetti. This role includes the fearsome aria “Pour mon âme, quel destin!” which features no less than nine high Cs... “The truth is that Tonio is a simple guy who is in love, he is also endearing and very well drawn by Donizetti,” the singer affirms. “The opera, written and sung in French, is fascinating and its characters are so attractive that performing them is a challenge it is a pleasure to take on. To this we add making a debut in Paris with an opera in French!” Accompanying the singer for this engagement is the soprano from Palermo, Desirée Rancatore, the baritone from Turin, Alessandro Corbelli and the legendary soprano Felicity Lott in an acclaimed production by Laurent Pelly, conducted by Marco Armiliato. After his Parisian debut, Celso Albelo will travel to Vienna to perform his first Sonnambula in the Staatsoper, ending the year in the Berlin Deutsche Oper with Lucia di Lammermoor before returning to Paris (in February 2013), this time at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, with Donizetti´s La Favorite. |
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Celso Albelo, star of the Tenerife Opera Festival and the Parma Verdi Festival 201202.10.2012October 2012 The Spanish tenor Celso Albelo returns this month to the Teatro Regio in Parma to take part in a gala in the Verdi Festival which the Italian theatre is organising, engaging all the performers most linked to the composer. Getting ready for Verdi’s bicentenary which will be celebrated in 2013, Albelo returns to Parma with his unparalleled Duca di Mantova from Rigoletto, one of his favourite characters: “The Duke is a libertine and a bon viveur, he is in love with life and with women, something he makes clear in his famous aria ‘La donna è mobile’. The role is fascinating as it has some of the most beautiful pages of music written by Giuseppe Verdi in it”, Albelo comments. In this special performance on the 26th October, the singer from Tenerife will be accompanied by the best Gilda of the moment, the soprano Desirée Rancatore who hails from Parma, and by the Rigoletto par excellence: the great Leo Nucci. Beforehand, Celso Albelo will take the lead at the Lyrical Gala organised by the Tenerife Opera Festival in the island’s capital (20th October), and will then travel to Madrid to perform once again at the Teato de la Zarzuela on the 29th in a recital in aid of the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation and the Lucero nuestro concert series. |
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Celso Albelo bids farewell to the summer in La Coruña, Vienna and Venice20.08.2012August 2012 After an intense emotional experience in Torre del Lago (Italy) on being awarded the prize for Best Tenor at the International Opera Awards Oscar Della Lírica on the 2nd August, and giving a concert at the Sant Lluís Summer Festival (Menorca, 4th August), Celso Albelo, who hails from Tenerife, will prepare himself to open the 60th A Coruña Opera Festival on 29th August, which is organised by the city’s Friends of Opera Association. Albelo will perform alongside the soprano Irina Lungu with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and will be conducted by Daniel Oren, one of the most outstanding figures on the current international opera scene. Afterwards Celso Albelo will travel to the legendary Vienna Staatsoper to give one sole performance (on the 6th September) of his exemplary Nemorino, the leading role of the Donizetti opera L’elisir d’amore, which this year has brought him huge success in Bilbao, Palermo and Venice. Eight days later he will once again tread the boards at La Fenice in Venice, taking the role of the Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s Rigoletto, whose famous aria La donna è mobile, is becoming the unstoppable Spanish tenor’s hallmark, along with Una furtiva lagrima, from the aforementioned Nemorino. In the city of Canals he will once again perform with the Italian soprano Desirée Rancatore, this time directed by Daniele Abbado and conducted by the director of La Fenice, the young Venezuelan conductor Diego Matheuz. |
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Celso Albelo wins the Oscar della Lirica, the International Opera Awards 2012 in Italy18.07.2012On the 2nd August in Torre del Lago (Italy) the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo will be awarded the prize for Best Tenor in the International Opera Awards 2012, Oscars della Lirica. Also nominated for the award were two other great tenors of the moment, the Peruvian Diego Flórez and the American Gregory Kunde, no less. Other nominees in other categories of the competition included names of the calibre of Gustavo Dudamel, Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Dessay, Waltraud Meier and Bryn Terfel. The prize was announced today by the Fondazione Verona per l’Arena (Verona Arena Foundation) and the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano (Puccini Festival Foundation), organising bodies that are awarding these prizes for the second time, although this time with nominations and in competition format. Albelo, who confirmed that he feels “very excited” since having found out officially that he is the winner of this prize, will attend the awards ceremony on the 2nd August in the Gran Teatro Giacomo Puccini in Torre del Lago. The tenor’s career has gone from strength to strength and he is currently going through some wonderful times, having recently performed at places such as the Proms (Guillaume Tell) and the Royal Opera House in London (La Sonnambula), Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo (I Puritani), Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao (L’elisir d’amore), Israel Opera in Tel Aviv (Lucia di Lammermoor), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence (Der Rosenkavalier), the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (L’elisir d’amore), La Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale) and La Fenice in Venice (L’Elisir d’amore). In what is left of the year his engagements are no less dazzling, as he will be giving gala performances at the A Coruña Opera Festival and the Tenerife Opera Festival, and will appear at the Wiener Saatsoper (L’elisir d’amore and La sonnambula), La Fenice in Venice (Rigoletto), the Paris National Opera House (La fille du regiment) and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Lucia di Lammermoor). |
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Celso Albelo: July in Venice, Parma and Mannheim06.07.2012This month Celso Albelo´s engagements will take him to three European theatres. On the 6th, 8th, 11th, 13th and 15th he will take on the role of one of his most emblematic characters –Nemorino from L’elisir d’amore - in La Fenice in Venice and alongside the Sicilian soprano Desirée Rancatore as Adina. This will be the same Bepi Morassi production that both performed in 2010. On the 17th they will go to the La Pergola theatre in Parma to give a concert in aid of victims of the recent earthquake in Novi di Modena, one of the municipalities especially damaged by the seism that affected the entire Emilia-Romagna area; Celso Albelo and Desirée Rancatore will be joined on stage by Vladimir Stoyanov, Michele Pertusi and Rossana Rinaldi. Also in July on Saturday 21st, the tenor from Tenerife will be Edgardo, in Lucia di Lammermoor, in a gala performance that will take place at the Mannheim Opera House (Germany) and in which he will also share the stage with Desirée Rancatore as Lucia. |
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Celso Albelo: from the Massimo in Palermo to La Scala in Milan30.05.2012It is not every day that a Spanish singer has the honour to sing in the legendary Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The tenor from Tenerife Celso Albelo, however, is returning to this famed theatre in the opera capital par excellence at the end of the month to live out the events of Donizetti´s Don Pasquale. The Spanish singer continues to garner success in the best opera houses in Europe and Asia, and this season he has appeared in theatres such as the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo (I Puritani), the Royal Opera House in London (La Sonnambula), ABAO in Bilbao (L’elisir d’amore), Tel Aviv Opera House (Lucia di Lammermoor), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Der Rosenkavalier) and the Teatro Verdi in Salerno (Los pescadores de Perlas). He is currently preparing to sing his famous Nemorino from L’elisir in the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Sicily) where he will be performing alongside the Italian opera star Desirée Rancatore as Adina (12 th, 15 th, 17th and 19th June) and both artists will go to La Fenice in Venice with the same production in July (6 th, 8 th, 11 th, 13 th, and 15 th). Before returning to the city of canals – where he gave a historic encore of the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" a couple of years ago, something which he did again in Bilbao in February- Celso Albelo will appear in two performances of Don Pasquale in La Scala, the premiere of the re-run (30 th June) and the second of the eight programmed performances (3rd July). Albelo had only sung Arlecchino from Pagliacci in the Milanese theatre before. |
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Celso Albelo on tour in Japan before opening the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino12.04.2012Since his recent successes in Bilbao(L’Elisir d’Amore) and Tel Aviv (Lucia di Lammermoor) Celso Albelo´s upcoming engagements continue taking him to wow new audiences. In April the tenor, who hails from the Canary Islands, will travel to Japan to give two recitals in Tokyo, the first is a solo performance (21st April, Musashino Civic Cultural Hall); the second, taking place in the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall Memorial Takemitsu (on the 24th), alongside one of the sopranos with whom he has performed on numerous occasions: the Italian Desirée Rancatore. Albelo will return to Europe to take on the role of the Italian Singer in Richard Strauss´s Der Rosenkavalier for the first time, a role which has been incarnated by some of the greatest singers in history such as Luciano Pavarotti and Alfredo Kraus. This opera marks the opening of the 75th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, no less, and will be conducted by Zubin Mehta in a new production by the Florentine theatre. The performances are programmed for the 4th, 6th, 8th and 11th May and the opening night will be broadcast live by RAI Radio3.
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Celso Albelo to be Edgardo, in "Lucia di Lammermoor", in Tel Aviv07.03.2012He simply does not stop. In February the tenor Celso Albelo, who hails from Tenerife, debuted in Bilbao to great public and critical acclaim in one of his favourite operas, L’Elisir d’amore, and in the following month he will travel to Tel Aviv (Israel) to take on another bel-canto role in Lucia di Lammermoor. Performances take place on the 12th, 15th, 19th and 22nd March at The Israeli Opera and the production will be conducted by Daniel Oren and directed by the also Spanish Emilio Sagi. Beforehand, at the beginning of the month on the 3rd and 4th, he returned to Bologna (Italy) to continue with the performances of Rossini´s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Stagione Lirica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, which began in February. |
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Celso Albelo gets ready for his debut in Bilbao.16.02.2012After topping off a dizzying 2011 with his recent homage to the great Alfredo Kraus in the Oviedo Teatro Campoamor, performing alongside the Italian baritone Leo Nucci, Celso Albelo is now getting ready to take on some new artistic challenges. The first of these is his debut in Bilbao in the Palacio Euskalduna on 18th, 21st, 24th and 27th February in the role of Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti, an opera programmed by the ABAO. |
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Cancellation Trieste's performances13.01.2012Dear friends: Celso Albelo |
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Celso Albelo debuts at the Royal Opera House with La Sonnambula11.10.2011The tenor is currently in London to begin rehearsals for Bellini´s opera La Sonnambula, in which he will sing Elvino, a role which he debuted in 2008 alongside the mezzosoprano Cecilia Bartoli -in concert format- at the Baden-Baden Festival. It will be in this character that Albelo will appear for |
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Celso Albelo returns to the A Coruña Opera Festival27.09.2011After a successful tour in Japan with I Puritani, Celso Albelo is now installed in A Coruña preparing his Nemorino from L’elisir d’amore, a role for which he has garnered many triumphs and which he himself defines as “full of tiny nuances which fill him with sincerity”. Donizetti´s romantic comedy can be seen on Friday 30th September and Sunday 2nd October in the Palacio de la Opera in A Coruña and will bring the 59th Opera Festival to a close.
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The Spanish tenor Celso Albelo takes over from Juan Diego Flórez in JapanTeatro Comunale di Bologna 08.09.2011The tenor Celso Albelo is one of the most internationally visible Spanish opera singers. He will be travelling to Japan this week to take the lead role in the opera I Puritani alongside the Italian soprano Desirée Rancatore, forming between them one of the artistic pairings most beloved by opera goers. They will be touring Japan with the Bologna Teatro Comunale, and Albelo has stepped into Juan Diego Flórez’s shoes at the last minute. The production, directed by Pier’Alli and conducted by Michele Mariotti, will premiere at the Biwako Hall in Otsu on the 11th September to then go on to the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo where they will do two performances on the 17th and 21st of the same month. His tour of Japan will mark the beginning of a season in which the tenor will debut with such emblematic companies as the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London (La Sonnambula), the ABAO in Bilbao, (Spain, L’elisir d’amore) and the Valencian Palau de les Arts (Spain, Thäis). Over the next few months he will also return to Tokyo to give a concert and will go to Tel Aviv to perform Rossini’s Stabat Mater, as well as returning to La Fenice in Venice with Elisir d’amore. Celso Albelo is currently considered to be one of the world’s best tenors and his most recent performances have been praised unanimously by critics all over the world. |
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Celso Albelo to sing at the Proms in London01.06.2011The Spanish tenor Celso Albelo will travel to London in July to perform in the BBC Proms Festival in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the cast of singers in Rossini´s William Tell, in which opera he will take the role of Ruodi and will be conducted by Antonio Pappano and accompanied by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. The occasion coincides with the international release of the CD of the opera which Albelo recorded last year in Rome with Pappano (Emi), and with other internationally renowned opera singers such as John Osborn, Michele Pertusi and Malyn Byström. Albelo is considered to be one of the best tenors of our time and among his upcoming engagements his debut in the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London with La Sonnambula and in Beijing with L’elisir d’amore stand out. He began the 2010-11 season by accepting two important international prizes in recognition of his talent and exceptional artistic career: the Opera Oscar awarded by the Verona Arena Foundation (August 2010) and the National Campoamor Opera Prize (January 2011) in the best newcomer category for his performance in I Puritani in La Coruña. |
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Celso Albelo sings Nemorino at Las Palmas in Gran Canaria25.04.2011The tenor, who hails from Tenerife, returns to the Canary Islands after his brilliant performance as Lord Arturo in I puritani in Salerno, which has been unanimously praised by the specialised press in Italy with declarations from popular critics and journalists such as Enrico Stinchelli who considers that Albelo is a “magnificent bel canto tenor”, an opinion shared by Dario Ascoli in his review published in Oltrecultura.com where he declared: “Celso Albelo is a tenor of planetary stature" and the critic Maria Continisio from Napoli.com who describes him as “the authentic Bellini tenor, who gives the audience everything that is written in the score, including the high F in the last scene”. The singer is currently in Las Palmas to take the role of the ingenuous Nemorino in Elisir d’amore for the first time in Spain, as part of the Canarian Friends of the Opera programme. Last October when Albelo was performing this opera in La Feniche in Venice the audience demanded an encore of the famous aria “Una furtiva lagrima”. His fellow cast members include the soprano Mariola Cantarero in the role of Adina, the Italian baritones Paolo Bordogna and Giorgio Caoduro as Dulcamara and Belcore and the Canarian soprano Judith Pezoa will take the role of Giannetta. The Canadian conductor Eric Hull will be at the helm of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra and Mario Pontiggia is the director and set designer. The performances will take place in the Pérez Galdós Theatre in the Canarian capital on the 2nd, 4th 6th and 8th May. |
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A tribute to Bel Canto exaltedLa Voz de Asturias 21.01.2011With its 417 partners, the Association Lyrical Asturiana Alfredo Kraus is an example of how to organize events lyric interest with limited resources. The VIII Tribute Concert to Alfredo Kraus met in the Auditorium of Oviedo to three interesting artists: Celso Albelo, extraordinary tenor who last October made history in La Fenice in Venice to the guimarães the famous... |
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La gala de la élite operísticaLa Nueva España 07.01.2011El premio revelación es para una de las nuevas voces españolas que han despertado mayor expectación en Europa, el tenor canario Celso Albelo, que estará en Oviedo haciendo una pausa en los ensayos que está realizando en la Scala de Milán. Su interpretación de Lord Arturo Talbo en «I Puritani» de Bellini en La Coruña le valió el galardón ... |
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De las virtudes del cantoLa Nueva España 02.12.2010Los amantes del canto se reunieron el martes en el Auditorio alrededor del recuerdo de uno de los tenores de indiscutible referencia , Alfredo Kraus. La asociación asturiana que mantiene la memoria del cantante canario organizó la octava edición del concierto en homenaje a Kraus, que contó con las voces de Celso Albelo y Milagros Poblador. |
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Celso Albelo, su majestad el tenorLa Provincia 26.11.2010Si Kraus fue el rey, Celso Albelo es el príncipe heredero. La dinastía de los grandes tenores canarios tiene segura continuidad en la voz excepcional y la imparable maduración artística de este lagunero de treinta y pocos años que protagonizó el VIII concierto de homenaje al maestro en el Auditorio que lleva su nombre. La sala de cámara dio espacio y volumen idóneos a un gran concierto vocal. Y no es sólo porque Albelo culmina el Spirto gentil con ... |
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Delirante entusiasmoMundoclassico.com 16.11.2010Este otoño La Fenice presentó L’elisir d’amore. El teatro continuó así -la crisis determina el repertorio- con una temporada compuesta en gran parte por títulos tradicionales abandonando, al menos por ahora, el itinerario tan innovador que había emprendido en los últimos años. El célebre título de Donizetti es, junto al Barbiere rossiniano, obra nacida tres lustros antes, ... |
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Inconmensurable Celso AlbeloLa Nueva España 06.11.2010Si ayer teníamos necesariamente que destacar la actuación de Beatriz Díaz en una mediocre función (03.11.10) del «Elisir d'amore» que durante este mes de noviembre se está representando en el Teatro La Fenice de Venecia, hoy tenemos que hablar de una representación exitosa (04.11.10) por casi todos sus componentes. |
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Celso Albelo hace historia en VeneciaABC Canarias 31.10.2010El tenor bisó en el mítico teatro La Fenice dos décadas después con la ópera «L'elisir d'amore». El tinerfeño Celso Albelo cosechó en la noche del pasado viernes un nuevo éxito en su carrera, al ser aclamado por su papel de Nemorino en la ópera «L'elisir d'amore», en uno de los teatros italianos de mayor historia y tradición, La Fenice de Venecia. |
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Oscar della LiricaInternational Opera Awards 31.08.2010THE GREATEST VOICES OF OPERA …joined together in an unforgettable happening The International Opera Awards – “Oscar della Lirica”, conceived by Alfredo Troisi and promoted by Fondazione Verona per l’Arena, aims to emphasize and to re-launch Grand Opera, by spreading the art of Opera singing that is first of all a way of life and culture, a school for continuous sacrifice, engagement and devotion. |
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Una Gala con todo lo que tienen que tener las GalasMundoclasico.com 04.08.2010Casi cuatro horas duró la Gran Gala Lírica -que en esta ocasión lo fue por calidad y proporciones- que ofreció el Xacobeo Classics, para la que se contó con siete voces de primer nivel que, en su mayoría, llevan varios años presentándose en Galicia -particularmente en A Coruña- y que son ya por tanto viejos conocidos del público gallego. |
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Celso Albelo: carambola de éxitos con "Il Trovatore" e "I Puritani"01.01.1970El tenor tinerfeño realizó este viernes la proeza vocal de asumir con éxito memorable el temido rol de Arturo de I Puritani en Mahón, cuatro días después de enamorar al público bilbaíno con su primer Manrico de Il Trovatore, dos papeles muy alejados vocalmente y que el cantante español ha interpretado en una misma semana. |
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Celso Albelo: carambola de éxitos con "Il Trovatore" e "I Puritani"01.01.1970El tenor tinerfeño realizó este viernes la proeza vocal de asumir con éxito memorable el temido rol de Arturo de I Puritani en Mahón, cuatro días después de enamorar al público bilbaíno con su primer Manrico de Il Trovatore, dos papeles muy alejados vocalmente y que el cantante español ha interpretado en una misma semana. |
Celso Albelo: carambola de éxitos con Il Trovatore e I Puritani01.01.1970-El tenor tinerfeño realizó este viernes la proeza vocal de asumir con éxito memorable el temido rol de Arturo de I Puritani en Mahón, cuatro días después de enamorar al público bilbaíno con su primer Manrico de Il Trovatore, dos papeles muy alejados vocalmente y que el cantante español ha interpretado en una misma semana. |