Hoffmann´s Tales

General Artistic and Production Director of the Teatro Colón since 2017, he has been music director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years and artistic director of the Flint Symphony Orchestra for 31 years, in Michigan (US).

An artist with an outstanding international career as a director, set designer, painter and playwright.

He is one of the leading tenors of our time and one of the most requested. He was born in Mexico, where he studied and had his first achievements. His international debut was in 1992, when he sang Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, replacing Luciano Pavarotti, in the MET.

He studied at the conservatories of Vienna and Mexico before starting his solo career. Since 2006 he has been performing regularly in the Czech Republic, his current adopted home.

He began his career as a tenor but, after a brilliant start, he had to retire within a year and a half due to voice problems. Changing the register by obligation, his consolidation occurs as his string evolves to "bass".

He has developed his career mainly in South America, singing in the main theatres in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador. In 2012 he made his European debut as Escamillo in Carmen, at the Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania, and Mephisto in Faust, in Metz, France.

She has been acclaimed at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Teatro Royale de la Monnaie De Munt, Teatro Palau de les A

She began her career at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata, where she was declared an Illustrious Citizen. She made her debut at the Teatro Colón with Alfredo Kraus and performed at its reopening with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Her repertoire includes Donizetti, Mozart, Verdi and Strauss, as well as French and modern composers.

Born in Buenos Aires, she has a degree in Art History (UBA). Trained at the Ópera Estudio del Teatro Argentino de la Plata, the ISATC and with private teachers, she has sung in the main halls of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

Of Serbian origin, she has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Belgrade. Her operatic debut took place at the National Theatre in Belgrade. Since then, she has performed leading mezzo-soprano roles in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Winner of the contest Women in Music in Santiago de Chile. In 2017 she received the distinction “100 women leaders” from the Chilean newspapers El Mercurio and Mujeres empresarias de Chile.

She appears regularly on the most important opera stages in the world. Besides Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich and the Salzburg Festival, she sings in London, Dresden, Vienna and at the Metropolitan Opera.

Uruguayan mezzo-soprano, she graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.