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The Italian male soprano, Paolo Lopez, studied at V. Bellini Conservatory in Palermo with Salvatore Ragonese and graduated in 2005. He made his debut on stage in the choir of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and sang solo parts in L'arca di Noè by Benjamin Britten, Pollicino by Henze, as well as Tosca by Puccini. He also took part in numerous master-classes with Enzo Dara, Filippo Crivelli and Ewa Wimola and won, in 2006, the 3rd Prize at the International Baroque Singing Competition Francesco Provenzale in Naples.
In the meantime Paolo Lopez has appeared in numerous opera production all over Europe. Although rooted in the Italian Baroque repertoire he also took part in productions of contemporary music (Franco Battiato). He performs mainly in opera productions and sacred music of the Italian Baroque Era. A first estimate of his range is: g - b'' (G3 - B5). In the sacred music repertoire, he sings Carissimi's Historia di Job and Vanitas Vanitatum, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat, Monteverdi's I Vespri della Beata Vergine and Selva Morale e Spirituale with Gabriel Garrido and the Elyma Ensemble, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater as well as J. Haydn's Stabat Mater with Les Folies Françoises.
In the Italian Baroque repertoire, Paolo Lopez performed the title role of Sant'Alessio by Stefano Landi at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, in a production by Benjamin Lazar, Erino in Le virtù dè strali d'amore by Francesco Cavalli at La Fenice in Venice with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante (DVD recording with Dynamic), Amore in Le disgrazie d'amore by Antonio Cesti at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa (Hyperion recording with Carlo Ipata), Dorillo in Ottavia restituita al trono by D. Scarlatti at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in San Sebastian as well as at the Beaune Festival with Antonio Florio and the La Pietà dei Turchini ensemble.
Among his recent engagements: concerts and the recording of the title role of Teuzzone by A. Vivaldi at the Opéra Royal de Versailles under the direction of Jordi Savall (Naïve), the role of Sesto in George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare with the Accademia Bizantina under the direction of Ottavio Dantone in Ferrara, Modena, Ravenna and, recently, at the Musikfest in Bremen. In the pipeline: the world premiere of Carl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma at the Musikfestspiele in Potsdam, a tour of G.B. Pergolesi's San Guglielmo Duca d'Aquitania with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. |
