Ramón Vargas (born 11 September 1960) is a Mexican

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. Since his debut in the early '90s, he has developed to become one of the most acclaimed tenors of the 21st century. Known for his most expressive and agile lyric tenor voice, he is especially successful in the bel canto repertoire.

Biography

Born in

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, the seventh of nine children. Ramón Vargas began singing at the age of 9, joining the boys' choir of the Basilica of Guadalupe in his home town. He then studied at the Cardenal Miranda Institute in México City, with Antonio Lopez and Ricardo Sanchez. In 1982, after winning the Carlo Morelli National Vocal Competition, he made his debut in

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's '' Lo speziale'', in Monterrey, Mexico. His breakthrough came in 1983, when the Mexican conductor Eduardo Mata hired him to sing Fenton in

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's ''

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'', and then Don Ottavio in Mozart's '' Don Giovanni''. Upon winning the Enrico Caruso Tenor Competition in

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, Italy, in 1986, he moved to

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where he completed his vocal studies at the school of the

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, under the guidance of Leo Müller. After deciding to become a freelancer in 1990, he met the renowned teacher,

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, in Milan, who became his vocal coach. Ramón Vargas' international debut took place in 1992, when the New York

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asked him to sing Edgardo opposite

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, substituting Luciano Pavarotti. This was soon followed by a debut on the stage of La Scala, in 1993, where he sang Fenton in Strehler's new production celebrating the centenary of ''

'', conducted by

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. He now regularly performs at all the major opera houses all over the world to great acclaim: Buenos Aires

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(''La favorita''), London

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(''Un ballo in maschera, La bohème, Rigoletto, La traviata''), Milan La Scala (''Falstaff'', ''Rigoletto'', ''La traviata''), New York

(''Attila'', ''La bohème'', ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''La Cenerentola'','' L'elisir d'amore'', ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''Rigoletto'', ''Der Rosenkavalier''), Madrid

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(''Werther''), Paris Opéra-Bastille (''Rigoletto, La traviata''),

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(''Un ballo in maschera, L'elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor''),

(''La bohème'', ''L'elisir d'amore'', ''La favorita'', ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''Manon'', ''Maria Stuarda'', ''Rigoletto'', ''Roberto Devereux'', ''Werther''),

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(''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''Rigoletto''), and others. In addition to his operatic career, he is also an accomplished concert singer, with an extensive repertoire ranging from Italian classical songs to romantic German Lieder and melodies by French, Mexican and Spanish composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1998, he offered a memorable recital at La Scala and his renditions of popular Mexican songs have been met with enthusiasm at massive concerts across Europe and Mexico. He was awarded the Lauri-Volpi Award for the Best Opera Singer of the 1993 Italian season, and in 1995 Italian critics were unanimous in awarding him the Gino Tani Award for the Arts. In 2000, British Opera Now declared Ramón Vargas Artist of the Year. Every year since 1999, Austrian Festspiele Magazine has awarded him first place among the best tenors in the world. In 2001, he received the ECHO Klassik - Singer of the Year Award from the German Phono Academy. He lives with his wife Amalia, and his two sons Fernando and Rodrigo in

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, Austria.

Charity work

In 1993, Eduardo, the first son of Ramón Vargas and his wife, was born in a hospital in Italy. Unfortunately, due to the negligence of the doctors attending the childbirth, the baby suffered a hypoxic encephalopathy, causing a nonreversible injury to his brain. During the following few months doctors in Europe and the United States confirmed a hopeless prognosis of brain paralysis, in the degree of quadriplegia. In the beginning of January 2000, Eduardo's life reached its end. Nonetheless, his parents decided that they did not wish to isolate themselves from their experience, on the contrary, they chose to perpetuate the memory and the example of Eduardo to help other special children like him, by setting up the Eduardo Vargas Memorial Fund. The creation and basic aims of the memorial fund were publicly announced by means of a gala concert with Ramón Vargas and the young American soprano Noëlle Richardson, accompanied on the piano by Mzia Bachtouridze, at the villa of the Rothschild Foundation in

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, on 1 July 2000. The initial proceeds were channeled through Vamos, a foundation with large experience in social development activities amongst the most vulnerable population in Mexico, towards some programmes of support that cover the following aspects: * Training promoters and community therapists * Providing information and support to the parents of children with special needs * Giving direct attention to disabled children and young people. In addition to contributions made by friends and generous anonymous donors, the Eduardo Vargas Memorial Fund is supported by the proceeds from concerts performed by Ramón Vargas.

Repertoire

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* '' Beatrice di Tenda (Orombello)'' * ''

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(Tebaldo)'' * ''

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(Faust)'' ; Luigi Cherubini * '' Médée (Jason)'' ;

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(Paolino)'' ; Gaetano Donizetti * '' L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino)'' * ''

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(Edgardo)'' * ''

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(Fernando)'' * ''

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(Leicester)'' * ''

Roberto Devereux ''Roberto Devereux'' (or ''Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex'' 'Robert Devereux, or the Earl of Essex'' is a ''tragedia lirica'', or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François An ...

(Roberto Devereux)'' ;

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* ''

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(Faust)'' ; Joseph Haydn * '' Lo speziale (Sempronio)'' ; Jules Massenet * '' Manon (Le Chevalier des Grieux)'' * ''

Werther ''Werther'' is an opera (''drame lyrique'') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel '' Th ...

(Werther)'' ;

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* '' Medea in Corinto (Giasone)'' ; Claudio Monteverdi * ''

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(Nerone)'' ;

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(Tito)'' * '' Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)'' * ''

Idomeneo ' (Italian for '' Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante''; usually referred to simply as ''Idomeneo'', K. 366) is an Italian language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a Frenc ...

(Idiamante, Idomeneo)'' * ''

Die Zauberflöte ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that includ ...

(Tamino)'' ;

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* ''

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(Hoffmann)'' ;

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(Rodolfo)'' ;

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* '' Adina'' (AliLanda Ketoff,
Bentornata Adina un'opera tutta da riscoprire
', ''la Repubblica'', 3 October 1991/Selimo) * ''

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(Il Conte d'Almaviva)'' * '' La Cambiale del Matrimonio (Milfort)'' * '' Elisabetta Regina d´Inghilterra (Leicester)'' * ''

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(Don Ramiro)'' * ''

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(Rodrigo)'' * ''

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(Paolo Eriso)'' * ''

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(Amènofi)'' * ''

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(Alberto)'' * '' La Scala di seta (Dorvil)'' * ''

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(Agirio)'' * '' Il turco in Italia (Don Narciso)'' * ''

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(Belfiore)'' ;

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* ''

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(Atar)'' ; Richard Strauss * ''

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(The Italian Singer)'' ; Igor Stravinsky * ''

The Rake's Progress ''The Rake's Progress'' is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings '' A Rake's Prog ...

(Tom Rakewell)'' ;

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* ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' (Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Евгений Оне́гин, ромáн в стихáх, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn, r=Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh) is ...

(Lensky)'' ; Giuseppe Verdi * '' Alzira (Zamoro)'' * '' Attila (Foresto)'' * ''

Don Carlos ''Don Carlos'' is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play '' Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Fried ...

(Don Carlos)'' * '' I due Foscari (Jacopo)'' * ''

(Fenton)'' * ''

I Lombardi ''I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata'' (''The Lombards on the First Crusade'') is an operatic ''dramma lirico'' in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much ...

(Oronte)'' * '' Messa da Requiem (Tenor)'' * '' La traviata (Alfredo)'' * ''

Luisa Miller ''Luisa Miller'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by the German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi's initial idea for ...

(Rodolfo)'' * ''

Rigoletto ''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play '' Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had co ...

(Il Duca di Mantova)'' * ''

Simon Boccanegra ''Simon Boccanegra'' () is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play ''Simón Bocanegra'' (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play ''El trovador'' had b ...

(Gabriele Adorno)'' * ''

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(Riccardo)''

Discography

;Opera * ''Manon Lescaut'', Puccini. Decca, 1993 (Edmondo) * ''Zaira'', Bellini. Nuova Era, 1993 * ''Falstaff'', Verdi. Sony, 1994 * ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', Naxos, 1994 * ''Otello'', Verdi. Deutsche Grammophon, 1994 (Cassio) * ''Goyescas'', Granados. Auvidis, 1996 * ''La Scala di Seta'', Rossini. Claves, 1996 * ''Tancredi'', Rossini. RCA, 1996 * ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'', Bellini. RCA Red Seal, 1998 * ''Il Turco in Italia'', Rossini. Decca, 1998 * ''Maometto II'', Rossini. BMG Ricordi, 1999 * ''Werther'', Massenet. RCA, 1999 * ''La favorite'', Donizetti. RCA, 2000 * ''Alzira'', Verdi. Philips, 2001 ;Oratario and Sacred Music * ''Christmas with Ramón Vargas''. Claves Records, 1996 * ''Messa da Requiem''. Verdi, 2007 ;Recital * ''Navidad desde México''. Sony Music, 1996 (Popular Mexican songs) * ''Suite Española De Águstin Lara''. PolyGram, 1996 (Popular Mexican songs) * ''Corazón Mexicano''. Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, 1998 (Popular Mexican songs) * ''L'amour, l'amour''. RCA, 1999 * ''Rossini & Donizetti Opera Arias''. Claves Records, 2000 * ''Canzoni''. Delta, 2000 (Italian Art songs) * ''México Lindo''. BMG Classics, 2000 (Popular Mexican songs) * ''Verdi Arias''. RCA, 2001 * ''Nel Mio Cuore''. RCA, 2003 (Arie Antiche) * ''Between Friends''. RCA, 2004 * ''The Opera Gala Live from Baden-Baden''. Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 * ''(Novecento Segreto, Novecento Popolare)'' ;Various * ''Lesley Garrett - I Will Wait For You''. RCA, 2000 * ''Possession''. RCA, 2002 (Soundtrack) * ''RCA Red Seal Century: The Vocalists''. RCA, 2002 * ''Catch a Shining Star''. Narm Recordings, 2003 * ''Inspirations''. Trauma, 2004 * ''Puccini Festival-die Grossen Opern Highlights''. Decca, 2008 ;DVD * ''Opera Stars Sing Broadway''. St Clair Vision, 2004 * ''Don Carlo'', Verdi. TDK, 2007 * ''Eugene Onegin'' Tchaikovsky. Decca, 2007 * ''Idomeneo'', Mozart. Decca, 2007 * ''Messa da Requiem'', Verdi. TDK, 2007 * ''La Bohème'', Puccini. EMI Classics, 2008 * ''La Traviata'', Verdi. Arthaus Musik, 2008 (Also on Blu-ray) * ''The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden''. Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 (Also on Blu-ray) * ''Don Giovanni'', Mozart. Opus Arte, 2009 (Also on Blu-ray) * ''Medea In Corinto'', Mayr. Arthaus Musik, 2011 (Also on Blu-ray)

References

External links

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Interview with BBC NEWS

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Interview with Dominic McHugh (MusicalCriticism.com)

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