HECTOR GUEDES Hector Guedes began his operatic training at the

HECTOR GUEDES
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Hector Guedes began his operatic training at the Opera Studio Buenos Aires,
following a career as a psychologist and an actor. His teachers include Miss
Margaretha Kenney, Mr. Josef Metternich and Mr. Arthur Levy in New York.
He made his international debut as Figaro (Rossini) in Barcelona as a result of being
a prize winner at the Viñas Competition in 1985. That same year he was also a
finalist in the 2nd LUCIANO PAVAROTTI International Voice Competition in
Philadelphia.
His opera appearances and concerts have taken Mr. Guedes through Europe, North
and South America as well as Asia including among others: the Fenice in Venice,
Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, the opera houses and concert halls in Frankfurt,
Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich (Nationaltheater and Festspiele), Wien, Glasgow,
Dublin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Toulouse, Budapest, Rio de Janeiro, Sao
Paulo, Seattle, Vancouver, Houston Symphony, Tokio, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires
and the Bienale in Munich. He has performed under the baton of such noted
conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Christoph Eschenbach, Gabriele Ferro, Pinchas
Steinberg, Gerhard Schwarz, Paul Daniel, W. Scheidt, E. Whallon, Jean-Claude
Malgoire, Antonio Ros Marba, Mario Perusso, E. Ricci, etc.
Mr. Guedes has developed a diversified career, encompassing a large variety of
roles, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Some of his most successful
interpretations among the first ones are: Don Giovanni, Figaro (Rossini), Enrico
(Lucia di Lammermoor), Germont, Rigoletto, Renato, Conte di Luna, Marcello,
Valentin, Escamillo.
He has recently added two Wagnerian roles to his repertoire: Alberich and
Telramund.
His contemporary music appearences include world premieres of "Leyla and
Medjnun" (D.Glanert), Jorge Liderman's "Antigona"; "Ein Brudermord" and
"Schlachthof5" (both from Hans Jürgen von Bose), "Solaris" (Michael Obst), Toshio
Hosokawa's "Lear"; Astor Piazzola's "Maria de Buenos Aires"; György Ligeti´s "Le
Grand Macabre" (Nekrotzar); Luca Lombardi´s "Dmitri" (Schostakovich), Manfred
Trojahn´s "Enrico" (Enrico) and Goya in Nigel Osborne´s "Terrible Mouth".
Mr. Guedes appears on several CD recordings: as Tito in "Maria de Buenos Aires"
(Astor Piazzola), songs by Igor Stravinsky, the title role in Hans von Bose´s "Ein
Brudermord" and his new Operatic Arias Album.
Beginning in 2004, Héctor Guedes has expanded his diverse and considerable
talents to becoming an opera director. In this new venture, he uses his vast
experience both as a performer and Psychologist. He created the “Lyric Opera
Ensemble,” fulfilling his dream of working closely with young singers.
In his
multifaceted approach, Héctor Guedes teaches the artists how to learn new roles,
express themselves, and to communicate with the audience. He has directed three
operas to great critical acclaim, winning accolades both in the press and with the
audience. Mr. Guedes’ first triumph was “Rigoletto” in 2005, followed by “Don
Giovanni” in 2006, the 150th anniversary year of Mozart’s birth, and “The Magic Flute”
in 2007.rias album.
REPERTOIRE OPERA
Bellini
I Puritani
Riccardo
Berg
Wozzeck
Wozzeck
Bizet
Carmen
Les Pecheurs des Perles
Escamillo
Zurga
Donizetti
Don Pasquale
L'Elisir d'Amore
La Favorita
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucrezia Borgia
Dotore Malatesta
Belcore
Alfonso
Enrico
Don Alfonso
Gounod
Faust
Valentin
Humperdinck
Hänsel & Gretel
Königskinder
Peter,Besenbinder
Spielmann
Janacek
Das schlaue Füchslein
Förster/Landstreicher
Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci
Silvio/Tonio
Ligeti G.
Le Grand Macabre
Nekrotzar
Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Alfio
Massenet
Herodiade
Werther
Herodes
Albert
Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots
Comte De St.Bris
Mozart
Cosi fan tutte
Don Giovanni
Le Nozze di Figaro
Guglielmo/Alfonso
Don Giovanni
Conte Almaviva/Figaro
Offenbach
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Dapertutto/Lindorf/
Coppélius/Miracle
Puccini
La Boheme
Madame Butterfly
Tosca
Marcello/Schaunard
Sharpless
Scarpia
Purcell
Dido & Eneas
Eneas
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
La Cambiale di Matrimonio
La Cenerentola
L'Italiana in Algeri
Semiramide
Il Turco in Italia
Figaro
Slook
Dandini
Taddeo
Azur
Poeta (Prosdocimo)
Schubert
Alfonso & Estrella
Froila/Mauregato
Strauss R.
Ariadne auf Naxos
Elektra
Harlekin/Musiklehrer
Orest
Verdi
Aida
Attila
Don Carlo
Ernani
Falstaff
Il Trovatore
La Forza del destino
La Traviata
Otello
Rigoletto
Simone Boccanegra
Un Ballo in maschera
Macbeth
Amonasro
Ezio
Rodrigo
Don Carlos
Ford
Conte Di Luna
Carlo
Germont
Jago
Rigoletto
Paolo/Simone
Renato
Macbeth
Wagner
Tannhäuser
Parsifal
Lohengrin
Rheingold
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
Tristan und Isolde
Wolfram
Amfortas
Telramund
Donner/Alberich
Alberich
Gunther/Alberich
Kurwenal
REPERTOIRE SYMPHONY- AND CHAMBERMUSIC
Beethoven
Missa Solemnis
Symphony No. 9
Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Vier ernste Gesänge
CastelnuevoTedesco
Vogelweide
A song cycle for Baritone and Guitar/Piano
Duparc
La vie anterieure
L'Iinvitation au voyage
Two songs for Baritone and Orchestra
Dvorak
Te deum
De Falla
La vida breve
El retablo de maese pedro
Haydn
Vier Jahreszeiten
Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Kindertotenlieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Symphony No.8
Manuel
Don Quijote
Pater Ecstaticus
Mendelssohn
Paulus, OP.36
Elijah, OP.70
Mozart
Konzertarien:
"Mentre ti lascio, o figlia" (K.513)
"Un bacio di mano" (K.541)
"Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo" (K.584)
Orff
Carmina Burana
Die Kluge
King
Ravel
Don Quichotte a dulcinee
Three songs for Baritone and Orchestra
L'Heure Espagnole
L'Enfant et lessortileges
Ramiro
The Clock/The Cat
Rossini
Petite messse solennelle
Salvador,
Mathilde
Cantata: "Les hores" (in Catlan)
for Baritone, Choir and Orchestra
Stravinsky
Oedipus Rex
Von Bose
6 Brahms Volkslieder
for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra
Omega (5 Lorca Lieder)
for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra
Werther´s monologue
for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra
Ein Brudermord (based on Kafka)
Baritone, Accordion, Cello and Band
Kreon/Messenger