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The Spanish tenor, Gerardo López Gámez, began his musical studies at an early age with Manuel Gámez, chapel master of Málaga Cathedral. He combined his studies of Engineering with Singing at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in his native city. He later moved to Madrid graduating from the Escuela Superior de Canto.
Gerardo López has worked with directors such as Jordi Casas, Aldo Ceccato, José Ramón Encinar, Riccardo Frizza, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Pablo Heras-Casado, Daniel Lipton, Jesús López-Cobos, Miquel Ortega, Alexander Rahbari, Lorenzo Ramos, Luis Remartinez, Miguel Roa, Antoni Ros Marbá, Massimo Spadano, Eun Sun Kim, Juan de Udaeta, Christian Zacharias, among others, in some of the most prestigious festivals and concert halls in Spain, such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música, Teatro Real, Teatro de La Zarzuela, Teatro Monumental de Madrid, etc. as well as in numerous countries in Europe, Asia and America.
Gerardo López has interpreted, among others roles: Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, Don Ricardo in Ernani, Don Basilio in W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Fígaro, Clem/Alfred in The Little Sweep, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Delmonte in Un giorno di regno, Edoardo Milfort in La cambiale di matrimonio, the title role in Abu Hassan, the Prince in Cendrillon, Anselmo in Il tutore burlato, Ham in Benjamin Britten's Noye´s Fludde, Artabano in Artaserse, Bastian in W.A. Mozart's Bastian and Bastienne, Zefirino/Gelsomino in Il viaggio a Reims, La Théière/L'Arithmétique/La Rainette in L'enfant et les sortilèges, Tony in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, Sargento Lombardi in La canción del olvido, Emilio in Don Manolito, Almirante in El rey que rabió, Zalea in La Tempranica, Muecín in El Asombro de Damasco and Don Luis in El Barberillo de Lavapiés.
As well as his lyric repertoire, Gerardo López has sung recitals and concerts ranging from early music and Baroque works to a large number of contemporary pieces, many of them in first performance. His most recent perfomances include Kaffe-Kantate (BWV 211) by J.S. Bach, Passion according to St. Mark by J.S. Bach and Reinhard Keiser; Symphony No. 9, Mass in C Major, Choral Fantasy and Cantata for the enthronement of Emperor Leopoldo II by L.v. Beethoven; Jephte by Carissimi; Cancionero de Pedrell by Gerhard; Messiah by George Frideric Handel; Nelson Mass, Missa Sancti Nicolai by Haydn; Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi; Coronation Mass, Mass in C minor, Requiem and Vesperae Solemne de Confessore by W.A. Mozart; Miserere by Ocón, Le Noces, Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinskyy, etc.
Gerardo López was invited by the University of Udine (Italy) to the International Symposium on Federico García Lorca to perform the Rapsodia del cante jondo by Emil Cossetto. At the Muzyczny Festival in Warsaw (Poland) he sang a programme of Spanish "zarzuela" arias, recorded and broadcast on Polish radio. In 2007 he gave a tour of concerts in various cities in the USA, in such emblematic venues as The Cloisters in the Metropolitan, New York with considerable praise from both press and public. In 2008 he performed in the Mozart Festival in La Coruña (Spain), Festival International de Musique de Sarrebourg (France), Festival de Musique Sacrée de Saint Malo (France), Opera Festival in Tenerife, among others. Christian Zacharias invited him to sing in the 2008-2009 season of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne at the Salle Métropole Lausanne and the Tonhalle of Saint Gallen (Switzerland). Subsequently he has been invited back by the master Christian Zacharias for Closing Concert of the 48 Religious Music Week in Cuenca. In 2009 he premiered the work Dos delirios. Variaciones sobre Shakespeare with music by Alfredo Aracil and text by José Sanchis Sinisterra in the Teatros Canal de Madrid and in 2010 Bestiario, sung ballet with music by Miquel Ortega, new production at the Teatro Real de Madrid along with ABAO, Opera de Oviedo and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona under the direction of the author. In 2011 he played The Giara A. Casella with the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE.
Gerardo López' His recordings include: El Diluvio de Noé (Deutsche Grammophon); Gianni Schicchi (NAXOS); Maestros de las catedrales gallegas with the Orquesta de Cámara de la Sinfónica de Galicia and Miserere by Eduardo Ocón with the Orquesta Sinfónica Provincial de Málaga; Cristóbal Galán. Canto del alma (Lauda Música) with La Grande Chapelle and Viva Madrid (Deutsche Grammophon) with the tenor Plácido Domingo. He has also recorded for TVE, Radio Clásica-RNE, Polskie Radio and Radio Suisse Romande. |
