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• 27 Festival de Musica de Canarias - CELSO ALBELO y RUBEN FERNANDEZ From 08/02/11 to 09/02/11

Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, enters the Conservatory of Music in his hometown, where he studied with Prof. Isabel García Soto, later enrolling at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid to study for three years with Tom Krause and Manuel Cid.

Perfected his studies with Teresa Berganza, Sarah Walzer, Magda Oliviero, William Mateuzzi, and more recently with Carlo Bergonzi.

He has performed in numerous recitals in Spain, the Canary Islands, United States, Dominican Republic, Netherlands and Belgium. He was invited by the Cairo Opera House for the season opener in 2003.

In 2004 he made his debut in Rigoletto, in Madrid, achieving great success with audiences and critics. In 2005, he participated in the first vocal competition "Renata Tebaldi" in San Marino.

Its most outstanding performances in 2006 include the Mass in C Minor, Mozart, Oviedo and Madrid, Rigoletto, in Busseto, with Leo Nucci in the title role, and the debut in the Zurich Opera, Don Pasquale.

In 2007, she sang the role of William Tell at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Antonio Pappano, in Genoa, Trieste, Zurich and Coruña, Don Pasquale, in Tokyo, Lakmé. Especially notable are her performances in 2008 in La Juive, Rigoletto and Gianni Schicchi at the Zurich Opera, La Sonnambula, in Baden-Baden, with Cecilia Bartoli, Falstaff, in Cagliari, Stabat Mater, the Rossini Opera Festival, directed by Alberto Zedda, The Pearl Fishers, in Trieste. It should be noted the great public and critical success in his debut as Arturo in I Puritani at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

Among its commitments in 2009-2010 found I Puritani in Coruña and the Savonlinna Festival, L`Elisir d`amore in Cagliari, Rigoletto in Salerno, Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Così fan Tutte at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, Guillaume Tell in Amsterdam Dutch NPS Public Radio and in Rome, Maria Stuarda in Trieste, in Catanzaro Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula in Las Palmas and Palermo, La Juive at the Opera of Tel Aviv and L`Elisir d`amore in Salerno .

His commitments to the 2010-2011 season include L`Elisir d`amore in Venice, and Monte Carlo in Solothurn Rigoletto, La fille du regiment in Coruña, Vigo and the Tel Aviv Opera, Don Pasquale in Washington and Peralada, Gianni Schicchi in Teatro Real de Madrid and Pagliacci at La Scala in Milan.

Coming soon: Debut in ROH Covent Garden in La Sonnambula.

Program:

CELSO ALBELO, tenor
RUBÉN FERNÁNDEZ AGUIRRE, piano

Canciones, ópera y zarzuela. Obras de Turina, Donizetti, Cilea, Miquel Ortega

Price: 30,35 and 45 €
Bookings at ExpoMeloneras and at the IFA & Lopesan Hotel´s receptions