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The Colombian tenor, Andrés Agudelo did his music and singing studies first in Colombia at the Universidad Central in Bogota then moved to Paris to be one of the members of “La Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris” after that he was also member of the singing department at Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris (since September 2017) and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofí in Madrid (since September 2018). In 2017 he was chosen by conductor David Stern to make part of his Opera Studio (Opera Fuoco) in Paris. He has sung in master-classes with Barbara Frittoli, David Gowland, Margreet Honig, Javier Camarena, Reri Grist, Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Teresa Berganza, Ruggero Raimondi. He was awarded by the Verbier Festival 2018 with the “Thierry Mermod Price” as the best student of the Opera Academy, in 2017 he got the “Alejandro Gutierrez medal” by the Caldas-Colombia government and also has been awarded with different prizes in Latin-American music in Colombia. He is currently a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio in Munich (September 2019-2021).
Andrés Agudelo has sung Gastonin in La Traviata with Medellin Philharmonic orchestra, Bacolo in Il signor Fagotto with the Universidad Central Opera Studio in Bogotá, Borsa in Rigoletto with the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo and Opernhaus Zürich in Bogotá as well as with the Bayerische Staatoper in Munich, Schmidt in Werther with the Opera de Colombia, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Quanta Colombia, Tony in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story with Opera Fuoco in Paris, Haushofmeister in Der Rosenkavalier with Opera de Colombia, Duca in Rigoletto at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland 2018, Don Ottavio in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni at Teatro della Pergola in Florence-Italy, live recording by Warner Classics Italy, Pong in Turandot at the Bayerische Staatoper in Munich (World’s debut of Anna Netrebko as Turandot). He made his debut as Wilhelm Meister in the Bayerische Staatoper Premiere of Mignon at the Cuvillies Theater in Munich in September 2020.
Andrés Agudelo has been a soloist in L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Young Symphonic Orchestra of Colombia, W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Patrick Fournillier, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with Paris Chamber Orchestra conducted by Arianne Matiakh, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with L’atelier des songes in Paris, J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor (BWV 232) at the Philarmonie de Paris and the Shanghai Symphony Hall conducted by David Stern, in 2015 was chosen as a soloist for the Binational concert Colombia-Venezuela in L.v. Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo in Bogotá conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and was the tenor soloist at the Closing Concert of the Bachfest Leipzig performing J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor (BWV 232) at the Thomaskirche in 2019.
In the 2021-2022 season Andrés Agudelo was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Kassel, where he could be seen as Andres in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, in the tenor role in J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) and as Alfonso in La Muette De Portici. Future projects include La Fanciulla del West at the Bayerischen Staatsoper in Munich and the role debut as Alfredo in a new production of La Traviata at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. |
