Artist's portrait
Paolo Lopez
Oberto (Alcina)
Debut at the Opéra de Lausanne.
Born in Palermo, Paolo Lopez studied with Salvatore Ragonese at the Conservatory V. Bellini in Palermo, graduating in 2005.
He started his career of concert and opera very young with the Massimo Theatre's chorus in Palermo singing as solo in Britten's L'Arca di Noè, Henze's Pollicino and Puccini's Tosca. He took part in several meetings and masterclasses with Enzo Dara, Filippo Crivelli and Ewa Wimola.
His rare sopranist voice quickly come to public attention in the baroque lyric scene. In 2006 he won the International Contest of Baroque Singing Francesco Provenzale in Naples.
In sacred music he has performed: Carissimi's Historia di Job and Vanitas Vanitatum, Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat, Monteverdi's Vespri della Beata Vergine and Selva Morale e Spirituale with Gabriel Garrido and Elyma Ensemble, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Haydn's Stabat Mater with Les Folies Françaises.
In baroque italian repertoire he sang the title-role in Stefano Landi's Sant'Alessio at the Opera National de Lorrain in Nancy with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants and Benjamin Lazar's stage direction, Erino in Francesco Cavalli's Le Virtù de Strali d'Amore at Venice's Fenice Theatre and recorded in DVD for Dynamic with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante and Davide Livermore's stage direction, title role Amore, in Antonio Cesti's Le Disgrazie d'Amore peformed in Pisa's G. Verdi Theatre and recorded for Hyperion with Carlo Ipata, Dorillo in Domenico Scarlatti's Ottavia restituita al trono at San Sebastian's Victoria Eugenia Theatre and at the Festival de Beaune with Antonio Florio e La Pietà dei Turchini.
Recent and forthcoming engagements include: concerts and recording for Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition in Versailles’s Opéra Royal under the baton of Jordi Savall for the title role of Vivaldi’s Teuzzone. World premiere of Graun’s Montezuma in Musikfestepiele Potsdam; tour of Pergolesi’s San Guglielmo Duca d’Aquitania with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques; Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare under the baton of Ottavio Dantone with Accademia Bizantina in Ferrara, Modena, Ravenna.