Arturo Chacón Cruz
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Mexican lyric tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz, born in Cd. Obregon, Sonora, raised in Navojoa, Sonora (August 20th, 1977)
This young tenor has sung all over the world and is establishing himself as one of the leading tenors of his generation.
Chacón-Cruz has received many awards, including the Antonio Davalos Award in Mexico's Carlo Morelli's competition, First Place and Audience Choice Award at the 2003 Eleanor McCollum Competition in Houston Grand Opera, winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the New England Region, Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2005. He was also the recipient of the "Ramón Vargas" Opera Development Scholarship given by Mr. Vargas and Pro Ópera in Mexico. He was named as well 2006 Artist of the year by El Imparcial Cultural Organization in his hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico.
A graduate of the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio, he also participated in many other young artist programs, including SIVAM workshops, the Boston University's Opera Institute and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program.
He did his Palacio de Bellas Artes debut (Mexico City) in 1999, in the "III Gala Latina" and he has returned several times to that stage for many concerts and Opera.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut in March 2002 singing in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, he later returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2003 to sing Beethoven’s Mass in C and Charpentier’s Te Deum with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, as well a concert with the New York Pops in 2006.
He made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as part of the “Summer in the City” concert series in July of 2004. In September 2005 he sang a concert of Mexican songs and Spanish music with the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
Some if his tenor roles include: Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggero in La Rondine, Alfredo in La Traviata, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Romeo and Faust in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Faust, Christian in Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, The title role in Mozart's Idomeneo, Tamino in The Magic Flute, Marcello di Bruges in Donizetti's Il duca d'Alba, Il Duca di Mantova in Verdi's Rigoletto, Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon and the title role in Werther.
Some of the Opera Houses and Concert Halls he has performed at include: Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Pacific, Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Detroit Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro di San Carlo, Connecticut Opera ,Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Montpellier Opera and Festival de Radio France, the National Theatre of Miskolc in Hungary, Carnegie Hall, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City among many others.
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