De Argentijnse tenor Raúl Giménez komt naar 's-Hertogenbosch voor de IVC Summer School Belcanto.

Jennifer Larmore heeft tot haar spijt moeten afzeggen. We zijn verheugd te kunnen zeggen dat Raúl Giménez beschikbaar is om haar te vervangen en zijn ongeëvenaarde kennis van het Belcantorepertoire te delen met onze 12 jonge operatalenten.

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Raúl Giménez made his debut in 1980 singing Ernesto in Don Pasquale with the company of the Teatro Colon. After singing for four years throughout South America he came to Europe, making his debut at the 1984 Wexford Festival in Le Astuzie Femminili. He sang in Geneva (Turco in Italia ), Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro (Signor Bruschino ) Venice (Armida ) and Amsterdam (Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria )

During the 1989/90 season he made several important debuts : Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Vienna Staatsoper as Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and his United States debut with the Dallas Opera also as Ernesto.

Since then he has sung at inter alia  La Scala (Tancredi/La Cenerentola ) the Paris Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor/Barbiere di Siviglia/Capuleti eI Montecchi ) Munich (Barbiere di Siviglia/la Cenerentola/L’Italiana in Algeri/Anna Bolena ) the Metropolitan Opera (Barbiere di Siviglia/La Cenerentola ) Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro (signor Bruschino,L’Occasione fa il Ladro, Tancredi, la Pietro del Paragone, Adina ) Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Madrid, (La Cenerentola, la Sonnambula,La Favorite, la Pietro del Paragone, Don Giovanni ) Rome, Naples, Palermo, Florence, Verona, Genova, Ravenna Festival, aix-en-Provence Festival, Berlin, Hamburg andFrankfurt.

Raúl Giménez has worked with Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Daniele Gatti, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Evalino Pido, Alberto Zedda and Gianluigi Gelmetti with whom he has collaborated frequently in Rome, Naples, Pesaro and Ravenna Festivals and Stuttgart.

His recent engagements include Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro in Madrid and Geneva and Dr. Caius in Falstaff at the Paris Opera and the Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari.

Recently Raúl Giménez has given many master classes at the Wildbad Festival, Santander, Majorca, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Teatro Real Madrid. He is Artistic Director at the Concertante Barcelona Academia Internacional de Musica, holding the chair for vocal studies.

Source: www.operamusica.com