Soloist
Jesús Álvarez
The Spanish Tenor Jesús Álvarez studied with Ana Luisa Chova in Spain and with Patricia McCaffrey in New York. In parallel he has attended masterclasses with such artists as Darrell Babidge, David Menéndez, Francisco Araiza, Laurent Pillot, Kevin Murphy, Pierre Vallet, Rubén Fernandez Aguirre, Husan Park and John Lidal. As a student at the »Plácido Domingo Advanced Centre« he performed in such productions as »Le nozze di Figaro«, »Boris Godunow«, »Dido und Aeneas«, »Il trovatore« and »Tristan und Isolde« in the »Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía« in Valencia during the 2011/2012 season and worked with artists such as Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Jean-Louis Grinda, Philipp Himmelmann, Omer Meir Wellber and Zubin Mehta.
This was followed by engagements in roles such as Ernesto (»Don Pasquale«) at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Pedrillo (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«) at LʼAuditori von Barcelona, Don Ottavio (»Don Giovanni«) in Castellón de la Plana, Gernando (»Lʼisola disabitata«) at the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao and in the Maestranza Theatre Sevilla, plus Tonio (»La Fille du Régiment«), Nemorino (»L’elisir d’amore«) and Ferrando (»Così fan tutte«). Internationally, he has sung such roles as Ruiz and Messo (»Il trovatore«) at the Semperoper in Dresden, Pylades (»Iphigenie en Tauride«) at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and appeared on the concert stage with a repertoire of French songs at the Oslo Opera House.
Jesús Álvarez is also very active in the field of zarzuela, the Spanish operetta, and has played roles here such as Principe Sergio in »Katiuska« by Pablo Sorozábal, Casto José in »La corte del faraón« by Vicente Lleo, Jeremías in »El rey que rabió« by Ruperto Chapí and Lombardi in »La canción del olvido« by José Serrano. His repertoire in the area of sacred music includes works such as Marc-Antoine Charpentier's »Te deum«, Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's »Krönungsmesse« plus his Requiem, Salvador Giner's Requiem and the Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns.
