Tenor René Barbera, graduated at Chicago’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, won the first prize at Placido Domingo’s Concorso Operalia in 2011, a Mosca; in the same competition won il the first prize for Zarzuela and the audience award.
René Barbera, in the season 2014/15, sung Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra National in Parigi, Ramiro in La Cenerentola at San Francisco Opera, Tonio in La fille du régiment at Greensboro Opera and Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Los Angeles Opera, Iopas in Les Troyens at San Francisco Opera
He made many important in North America’s theatres: Elvino in La sonnambula at Washington Concert Opera, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Michigan Opera Theater and Ernesto in Don Pasquale at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Don Ramiro ne La Cenerentola at Seattle Opera and at Los Angeles Opera, Almaviva at Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow. In the summer 2013, he debuted at Santa Fe Opera in the role of Rodrigo in Rossini’s La donna del lago.
Also he sung at Lyric Opera in Chicago Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte; he debuted at Vancouver Opera in the role of Almaviva and at Canadian Opera Company in Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio).
About his symphonic repertoire: a recital at the Festival of Music of Medoc, in France, Rossini Stabat Mater at the Grant Park Music Festival and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Händel Messiah with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, the Stabat Mater with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven IX with the Chicago Philharmonic, Verdi Requiem at with Riccardo Chailly.
Among his recent engagements: Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris, La gazza ladra in Pesaro, La Cenerentola and Les Troyens in San Francisco, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Los Angeles, La fille du régiment at Greensboro Opera, La Cenerentola in Palermo, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna, Il Turco in Italia in Pesaro, L’Italiana in Algeri at New York’s Metropolitan, La Traviata in Palermo, La clemenza di Tito in Saint Louis, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris, Don Pasquale at La Scala., Messa di Requiem with La Scala in Pavia, Hamburg and Paris, La clemenza di Tito in Valencia, I Puritani in Stuttgart, Il barbiere di Siviglia at Amsterdam, Don Pasquale in Wien, Anna Bolena in Rome, Idomeneo in Palermo, La Traviata in Peralada, L’elisir d’amore in Wien and Milan, a tour of Verdi Requiem, conducted by Teodor Currentzis Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Genoa and Wien; among future engaments Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Tokyo,Turin and Sanxay, La Sonnambula and La Traviata in Liège, Stabat Mater at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in Palermo, La Traviata at La Scala in Milan and in tour in Mumbai and Riad, Lo sposo di tre e il marito di nessuna in Florence, Snegurochka in Paris, La Cenerentola in Valencia.
January 2020