Germán Villar (born 1975) is a Spanish

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Biography

Germán Villar was born in

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. The roots of his musical education lay in

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, where he started his education with Inés Ribanedeira. At the age of 20 he joined the Joaquim Rodrigo Conservatory in Valencia, where he was to finish his studies. Five years later he took part in the Young Artist Program of the

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and worked with teachers such as Trish McCaffree, Renata Scotto and Pierre Vallet. One year later, he made his stage debut singing Alfredo in ''

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''. In 2002 he won three awards at the Francisco-Vinas-Competition in

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and joined the ensemble at the Stadttheater Gießen,

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, where he successfully performed a number of prestigious roles, such as Pollione,

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, Lenskij and Mitch in the German premiere of

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's ''

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''. He has a reputation as one of the leading tenors of the young generation. His outstanding stage appearance in connection with an enormous musicality makes Germán Villar a number 1 candidate for most major roles of the Italian and French repertoire. His accession to the row of the world's finest tenors came with his role as Christian in '' Cyrano de Bergerac'' at the

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in January 2008.

Repertoire

* Franco Alfano - ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (Christian) *

Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giu ...

- ''Norma'' (Pollione) *

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...

- ''Carmen'' (Don Jose) * Friedrich von Flotow - ''Martha'' (Lyonel) *

Umberto Giordano Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, ''Marina ...

- ''Fedora'' (Loris Ipanov) * Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold - ''Zampa'' (Zampa) * Vicente Martín y Soler - ''Il Burbero di Buon Cuore'' (Valerio) * Pietro Mascagni - ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' (Turiddu) *

Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are '' Manon'' (1884) and ''Werther' ...

- ''Werther'' (Werther) * Enric Palomar - ''Juana'' (Juan de Padilla) *

- ''Endstation Sehnsucht'' (Mitch) *

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long li ...

- ''Madam Butterfly'' (Pinkerton) * Giacomo Puccini - ''Il Tabarro'' (Luigi) * Giacomo Puccini - ''Tosca'' (Cavaradossi) *

Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ov ...

- ''Die Fledermaus'' (Alfred) *

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

- ''Eugene Onegin'' (Lenski) *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - ''The Maid of Orleans'' (Karl V) *

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

- ''La Traviata'' (Alfredo) *Giuseppe Verdi - ''Nabucco'' (Ismaelle) *Giuseppe Verdi - ''Falstaff'' (Fenton) *

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

- ''Das Rheingold'' (Froh)

Notes

References

*Sylvana Sintow-Behrens International Promotions and Managements

External links

The official website of Germán VillarThe official website of the Teatro alla Scala
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