Opéra de Lausanne

Debut at the Opéra de Lausanne.

Considered to be one of the most promising tenors in the new wave of international opera singers, Juan Francisco Gatell has been recognised by specialist critics as a polished singer of bel canto owing to his impeccable vocal command and his precise acting skills.

Born in La Plata, Argentina, he won First Prize of the ASLICO competition in 2006. From that time on went from strenghth to strength, garnering success with, for example Conte d’Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Don Ottavio – debuted in the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti) -
and with his Tamino from Die Zauberflöte in La Fenice in Venice. He has also sung Don Ottavio in the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, the Comunale in Bologna
and La Scala in Milan. The young tenor debuted in Paris at the Opera Garnier with Capriccio (Richard Strauss), also at the Teatro Real in Madrid with Il burbero di buon cuore by Martín y Soler, and at the A Coruña Opera Festival in Così fan tutte.

He has worked with Maestro Riccardo Muti on various occasions singing Ernesto in Don Pasquale in Ravenna, in the Viennese Musikverein and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, as well as debuting as Don Calandrino in Cimarosa’s Il ritorno di Don Calandrino at the Salzburger Pfingsfestspiele; again with Muti on the podium he played Eliézer in Moïse et Pharaon in Salzburg, a role which he also sang in Rome (2010), after which he worked with Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra singing Cassio in Otello in Chicago and in the Carnegie Hall, New York, in April 2011.

In 2009 he sang at the Washington National Opera for the first time, (Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Michele Mariotti) and in 2010 in the Comunale Theatre in Bologne (Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore) and in the Jesi Pergolesi-Spontini Festival (Polidoro, Flaminio). With his Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia he has also debuted in Geneva, Vienna and Tel Aviv (conducted by Roberto Abbado) in the 2010-2011 season. He was a huge success in the Salzburg Summer Festival as Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) and the following year he returned to La Scala in Milan as Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims.

Juan Francisco Gatell also performs symphonic works and has participated in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival and in the Ravenna Festival, conducted by Riccardo Muti- singing Mozart’s Vesperae solemnes de confessore. He performed L’enfant prodigue in the San Carlo Theatre in Naples in 2008 and Paisiello’s Missa Defunctorum in Florence and Salzburg in 2009. The Davidde Penitente (Mozart), Puccini’s Messa, Mozart’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and Bach’s Magnificat are also in his repertoire.