Diego Torre | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Diego Antonio Torre Villegas |
| Born | November 24, 1979 Mexico City |
| Occupation(s) | Sydney Opera House, Resident Singer |
| Instrument | Voice (tenor) |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Website | www |
Diego Antonio Torre Villegas (Mexico City, November 24, 1979) is a Mexican and Australian opera singer. He is a resident singer in the Sydney Opera House (Australia).
Born in Vicente Guerrero colony at Iztapalapa, Torre studied at the Academia Militarizada México where he sang for the professors and the cloister at meals and events. He also belonged to La Estudiantina at the "La Salle del Pedregal" High School. [1]
Torre studied at the School of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He applied by chance when he went with a friend to pick up some scores and saw that the application office was open. He studied Canto under the Chair of Maestro Rufino Montero. [1] At age 20, he debuted with the Compañía Nacional de Ópera in the Palacio de Bellas Artes while performing as Gaston in La Traviata and chose opera as a career from then on. [2]
In 2004 and 2005, Torre trained through a summer program with the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera (EPCASO), while also receiving training in Italy with teachers Claudia Pinza, Enza Ferrari, Maurizio Arena and Maria Chiara. [3] In 2005 he received the support of the International Society of Mexican Art Values (SIVAM), [4] and was able to travel to Los Angeles to audition at Plácido Domingo Young Singers Program. [2] He auditioned with a solo accompanied by piano, was accepted, and moved to Los Angeles in 2007. [2] On 6 December 2008, he made his international debut at the Los Angeles Opera as Don Jose in Bizet's Carmen. [5]
In 2007, at age 27, Torre won third place in the Neue Stimmen opera competition organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh, Germany. He sang an aria from Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi. [6]
In 2009, Torre represented Rodolfo in La bohème at Filene Center of Wolf Trap (Virginia). The atmosphere in the internet cafes of the 21st century, with laptops and digital sets, gathered musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra, choirs of the Choral Arts Society and the Choir of Children of the Choral Society of Alexandria. The Washington Times review was: “As Rodolfo, tenor Diego Torre was simply smashing. Built like a beer-loving construction worker you’d see at a local watering hole, Mr. Torre hardly seemed a conventional romantic lead. Yet most guys in the audience could easily identify with this everyman. His passion was real, his heartbreak was immense, and his commanding, gloriously sculpted instrument makes him an up-and-coming talent to be watched.” [7] [8]
During the 2009/2010 season he performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, playing the Messenger in Aida and Federico in Stiffelio. And he continued his work as a tenor in other opera houses. He was the fisherman Masaniello in La muette de Portici, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor m, and was the cover of Plácido Domingo in the main role of Il Postino in Los Angeles Opera. [9] [10]
While Torre was in New York, Lyndon Terracini, the Director of the Australian Opera, offered him a 22 performance run of La Bohème at the Australian Opera. He accepted a position as a Resident Tenor there. On Australia Day 2016 (26 Jan), he sang the national anthem to the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, during the official memorial ceremony. He was one of 27 people from 13 countries becoming an Australian citizen. [11] [12]
Among the experts Diego Torre is considered to have an operatic voice fitted with a solid technique, which allows him to range from a tenore lirico repertoire to a tenore lirico spinto, one from Donizetti to Verdi, from Puccini to Mascagni, from Leoncavallo to Zemlinsky. [13]
In 2012 he recorded Puccini's La bohème, with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra conducted by Eivind Gullberg Jensen. This album is considered by the New York Times as one of the best albums of classical music. [14]
| Role | Opera | Composer |
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| Pinkerton | Madama Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini |
| Rodolfo | La bohème | Giacomo Puccini |
| Radames | Aida | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Edgardo | Lucia di Lammermoor | Gaetano Donizetti |
| Cavaradossi | Tosca' | Giacomo Puccini |
| Tenor | Requiem | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Turiddu | Cavalleria Rusticana | Pietro Mascagni |
| Canio | Pagliacci | Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| Gabrielle Adorno | Simon Boccanegra | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Rodolfo | Luisa Miller | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Don Carlos | Don Carlos | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Duque de Mantua | Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Gustavus | Un ballo in maschera | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Corrado | Il Corsaro | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Calaf | Turandot | Giacomo Puccini |
| Manrico | Il Trovatore | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Don José | Carmen | Georges Bizet |
| Masaniello | La muette de Portici | Daniel-François Auber |
| Foresto | Attila | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Bacchus | Ariadne auf Naxos | Richard Strauss |
He has performed in the main Opera theaters of the world and with the main companies: Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, all of them in the United States; Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Center, and Queensland Performing Arts Center in Australia; Palacio de Bellas Artes and Peon Cotreras Theater in Mexico; Savonlinna Opera Festival, in Finland; Karlsruhe Staatstheater, Dessau Staatstheater, Darmstadt Staatstheater and Saarbrücken Staatstheater, in Germany; Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova and Teatro Regio di Torino in Italy; The Norwegian Opera & Ballet in Norway, Grand-Théâtre de Genève in Geneva and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China. [15]
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