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Juan Jose LOPERA |
Born in Colombia and graduated from Medical School in 1988. He moves to Europe in summer 1993, begins to work privately with Ms. Rita Loving and spends two seasons at the Opera Studio from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 1994 he wins the third price at the international singing competition from the ARD in Munich, in 1997 the first Eberhard Waechter Medal in Vienna and the Price of the critics and public from Tirol. Between 1995 and 1997 he sings in the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck as part of the Opera Ensemble.
He has sung in the following opera houses of Europe, among which the Vienna State Opera (Almaviva, Lindoro), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Ramiro), Amsterdam (Lindoro), Brussels at the Theatre de la Monnaie (Ernesto) Sevilla, Gran Teatro de la Maestranza (Lindoro, Ramiro), in Zurich (Almaviva, Ernesto), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Ernesto, Ramiro), Paris at Le Théâtre du Châtelet, Dresden (Lindoro, Paolino), Hannover (Ernesto), the Teatro di San Carlo Naples (Almaviva), the Teatro dell'Opera Roma (Ramiro).
In Concert, he has sung in the
Philharmonic Concert Halls of:
Munich, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Hannover, Frankfurt, in the Hercules
Saal in Munich, in the Congress and Concert halls of Augsburg, Nürenberg,
Strassbourg, Kaiserslautern, in the Concert Hall from the All Austrian
Radio in Vienna, in the Concert Hall of the Spanish Radio in Madrid, in
Teatro Verdi Firenze, Teatro dell'Opera V. Bellini di Catania, Auditorio
della Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome and many important Churches all
over Europe.
He has recorded Otello from Rossini
(Iago) with the Phillarmonia Orchestra, The merry widow from Lehar (Rossillon)
with the WDR, le Nozze di Teti e Pelleo with the Virtuosi di Prague and
soon will be in the market Arie inedite di gioventú Rossini with
SWR. During the following two seasons he will be singing in: Vienna State
Opera (Almaviva, Lindoro), Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Bavarian
State Opera in Munich (Ramiro), Strassbourg (Lindoro), Teatro San Carlo
di Napoli (Ramiro), La Monnaie-Brussels (Agenore, il re pastore), Helsinki
(Ramiro), Solothurn Summer Festival (Ottavio, Belmonte), Caramoor (Linda
di Chamounix), Las Palmas (Narciso).