Àngel Òdena is a Spanish
opera
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baritone
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Biography
Born in
Tarragona
Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tar ...
, Spain, he has a degree in Geography and History. He started studying singing and piano in his native town with Mercè Obiol and Dolors Aldea, and continued his studies at the Accademia Lirica in
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
with Katia Ricciarelli and later with Eduardo Giménez. His debut was in 1994 in ''
La Bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions ''quadri'', ''tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G ...
'', at the Teatro Petruzzelli in
Bari
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Repertory
Zarzuela
*Luisa Fernanda
*Katiuska
*La de Manojo de Mosas
*Pan y toros
*La del Soto del Parral
*La revoltosa
Spanish Opera
*MerlÃn
*Margarita la Tornera
*La Dolores
*Atlantida
*Una voce in off
*El gato con botas
Sources
*Albesa, Isaa
"Àngel Òdena debutará en Verona"(in Spanish), ''Diari de Tarragona'', 28 June 2009
*Diputació de Tarragona
El barÃton Àngel Ã’dena, investit conciliari d'honor al Palau de la Diputació(in Catalan), 20 October 2008
*Gonzalez, Angel
Angel Odena BarÃtono: «Debes llevar la música de Wagner a tu terreno»(in Spanish), ''La Voz de Asturias'' 8 October 2005
External links
Official website*
Living people
Opera singers from Catalonia
21st-century Spanish male opera singers
Spanish operatic baritones
People from Tarragona
Year of birth missing (living people)
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