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Edgardo Rocha
Edgardo Rocha, in 2022
Born	6 September 1983 (38 years old) Uruguay
Education	Escuela Universitaria de Música de Uruguay
Occupation	Opera singer (tenor)
Years active	2010-present
Known for	(#crazytenor)
Children	3
Website	https://www.edgardorocha.com/

Edgardo Rocha (on September 6, 1983, Rivera) is an Uruguayan tenor. He has played out an assortment of opera roles in the main theaters all over the planet.

He hangs out in the bel canto collection, carrying drama to the people. He stands out in the bel canto repertoire, bringing opera to the people who are passionate, to those who are enthusiastic and the people who value any artistic manifestation. Through his simplicity he kicks things off, demonstrating that opera can be well known.

He accepts that it isn't important to be a specialist in opera to be able to appreciate it and enjoy it. He has commanded, with his voice and character, to vanquish public in every place where he has performed.

Biography

Early life and education

The birth city of Rocha is Rivera, Uruguay. His dad functioned as immigration officer and his mom as a bakery chef He began studying on piano when he was eight and found that music had a gigantic effect in his life. He remembers hearing the radio daily at home and having long conversations about music with his elder brother, who played the guitar and the harp.

Regardless of being passionate about music, his family was not ready for Rocha picking music as a profession, nonetheless, he had confidence in his energy and that's how he started practicing singing lessons in secret and figured out that his fantasy was to turn into lyrical singer.

Rocha studied choral, piano and orchestra directing at the Montevideo University School of Music. After winning a scholarship offered by the Chamangá Foundation for vocational youth, he started his vocal techniques lessons with Alba Tonelli. He later studied singing with Raquel Pierotti and Beatriz Pazos.

In 2008 he moved to Italy to consummate himself with the Rossinian tenor Rockwell Blake and the tenor Salvatore Fisichella.

He is the champ of the challenges: 51º Concurso de Juventudes musicales del Uruguay, Giulio Neri in Siena (Italy) ,Maria Callas in Sao Paolo (Brazil) and Primo Palcoscenico in Cesena (Italy) where he debuted the job of Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini.

Career

In 2010, he made his debut in the primary role of the opera Gianni di Parigi by Donizetti at the Festival della Valle d'Itria Martina Franca a job of outrageous trouble, composed for the great tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini. Due to its huge success, his profession took off in European theaters.

At the Wexford Opera Festival ,he sang Gianni di Parigi. Then at that point, he acquired the lead title role as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola in the following theaters and operas around the world: Circuito Lirico Lombardo,  Teatro Lirico di Cagliari at the Bergen Festival, Opera de Lausanne, Seattle Opera, Opera de Bilbao, Opera de Monte Carlo, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Palau de la Música Catalana,  Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Opera of Versailles, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro de la Maestranza, Festival de Beaune, Lucerne Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bayerische Staatsoper and Wiener Staatsoper.

In 2017, an extraordinary tournée of La Cenerentola occurred along with the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, praising the 200th commemoration of the first presentation of this Rossini magnum opus.

He performed Don Pasquale at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Verona Philharmonic Theater. He performed Cosi fan tutte at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and Teatro Regio di Torino in 2011; L'Italiana in Algeri at the Opera Giocosa Savona, Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Wiener Staatsoper, Salzburg Festspiele and Opera de Nancy, Gran Teatro Liceo de Barcelona. He has likewise sung Il matrimonial segreto at Teatro Coccia, Novara; in 2011 Rossini's La scala di seta at the Opernhaus Zürich, where he additionally participated as the role of Jago in Rossini's Otello in 2012, along with the tenor Javier Camarena and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli.

Again in 2014, he performed it in the role of Rodrigo at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.In 2015, also as Jago at Teatro alla Scala.

In December 2012, Rocha played the role of Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Wiener Staatsoper, from that point forward it has been acted in the principal theaters around Europe such as: Teatro Real in Madrid, Bayerische Staatsoper,  Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Lausanne Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Paris Opera, Israeli Opera, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Hamburg Staatsoper, Teatro Filarmónico de Verona, Opernhaus de Zürich, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and at the Salzburg Festspiele.

He, with Rossini's opera La Gazzetta, made his debut at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

In 2015, At Teatro Regio di Torino, he sang Rossini's Il Turco in Italia. Later on, in 2019 at Zürich's Opernhaus and in 2020, at the Teatro alla Scala.

In 2015, he likewise partook without precedent for ll Viaggio a Reims in job of Belfiore at Zürich's Opernhaus, performing it again in 2019 at Semperoper Dresden and in 2021 at Bolshoi Theatre.

In 2016, Rocha showed up in the lead spot of Ory in Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Opernhaus in Zürich. What's more, he additionally debuted as Nadir in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs des perles at Opera de Nancy, Leopold in Halevy's La Juive at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Roberto Alagna as his partner and the role of Arturo in Bellini's I Puritani at the Stuttgart Opernhaus.

In 2019 he sings he sings interestingly for first time as role of Ernesto in Paer’s Agnese, and furthermore Riccardo Percy in Donizetti's Anna Bolena in its actual form from 1830 at Opéra de Lausanne.

Other roles of consideration are Giannetto in Rossini's La Gazza ladra, Giacomo V in Rossini's opera La Donna del Lago where he made his debut at the Salzburg Pfingstfestpiele and at the Opéra de Marseille.

Different roles of thought are Giannetto in Rossini's La Gazza ladra, Giacomo V in Rossini's show La Donna del Lago where he made his presentation at the Salzburg Pfingstfestpiele and at Opéra de Marseille.

Repertoire

Work		Role
Vicenzo Bellini	I Puritani	Arturo
	La Sonnambula	Elvino
	Il pirata	Gualtiero
Georges Bizet	Les Pêcheurs de Perles	Nadir
Domenico Cimarosa	Il matrimonio segreto	Paolino
Gaetano Donizetti	Anna Bolena	Riccardo Percy
	La fille du régiment	Tonio
	Don Pasquale	Ernesto
	Lucrezia Borgia	Gennaro
	Linda di Chamounix	Carlo
	Gianni di Parigi	Gianni di Parigi
	María Stuarda	Leicester
	Roberto Devereux	Roberto
	L’elisir d’amore	Nemorino
Jacques Fromental Halévy	La Juive	Leopold
Example	L’Eclair	Lionel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Cosi fan tutte	Ferrando
	La Clemenza di Tito	Tito
	Mitridate re di Ponto	Mitridate
	il re pastore	Alessandro
	Don Giovanni	Don Ottavio
	Idomeneo	Idomeneo
		Idamante
Ferdinando Paër	Agnese	Ernesto
	Leonora	Florestano
Gioachino Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Almaviva
	Il turco in Italia	Don Narciso
	Il Viaggio a Reims	Il Cavaliere Belfiore
		Il Conte di Libenskof
	L’Italiana in Algeri	Lindoro
	La Cenerentola	Don Ramiro
	La Donna del Lago	Giacomo V
	La Gazza Ladra	Giannetto
	La Scala di Seta	Dorvil
	Le Comte Ory	Le Comte Ory
	Otello	Jago
		Rodrigo
Richard Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier	Ein Sänger

Colaborations

He collaborates with orchestra directors such as:

• Gianluigi Gelmetti
• Riccardo Frizza
• Giacomo Sagripanti
• Alan Curtis
• Myung-whun Chung
• Christopher Franklin
• Daniele Rustioni
• Alan Curtis
• Michael Güttler
• Jonathan Webb
• Bruno Campanella
• Enrique Mazzola
• Jean-Christophe Spinosi
• Omer Meir Wellber
• Stefano Montanari
• Gianluca Capuano
• Rani Calderón
• Antonello Allemandi
• Donato Renzetti
• Betrand de Billy
• Ottavio Dantone
• Stefano Ranzani
• Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

Stage directors such as:

• Damiano Michieletto

• Moshe Leiser/ Patrice Caurier
• Jonathan Miller
• Ettore Scola
• Rosetta Cucchi
• Joan Font
• Emilio Sagi
• Jürgen Flimm
• Antonio Albanese
• Carlo Verdone
• Stefano Mazzonis
• Adriano Sinivia
• Filippo Crivelli
• Jossi Wieler
• Christopher Alden
• Calixto Bieito
• Pier Francesco Maestrini

Movies

Edgardo Rocha assumes the part of Wear Ramiro in the film La Cenerentola, favola in diretta, delivered by Andrea Andermann for Rai. It was broadcast real time on Mundovision , organized via Carlo Verdone and under the melodic direction of Gianluigi Gelmetti.

Foundation

Rocha's own insight and his advantage in assisting different specialists with becoming experts, provoked him to make the musical gathering OPERA JOVEN. This establishment is totally centered around giving open doors to new talents, preparing them with subject experts and expanding the space for them to develop and acquire insight to confront the professional creative world.

This drive framed in 2006, figured out how to stick out, not just for being the main groundwork of its sort in Uruguay, yet in addition for its creativity in the drama "L'Elisir d'Amore" by Donizetti.

Right now, numerous young specialists in Uruguay have had the option to profit from this extraordinary support after completing their studies.