Upcoming concerts:

BERLIN

-Komische Oper Berlin: Magic Flute – Tamino – December 9, 10, 25, 2020

BILBAO

-ABAO Bilbao Opera: L’elisir D’amore – Nemorino – February 20, 23, 26, March 1, 2021

BERLIN

-Komische Oper Berlin: Magic Flute – Tamino April 15, 2021

NEW YORK

-New York Philharmonic – Mozart Requiem – Solo Tenor – April 21, 22, 24, 27, 2021

BERLIN

-Komische Oper Berlin: Magic Flute – Tamino May 2, 2021

PUERTO RICO

– Live Concert with CulturArte and  Puerto Rico Symphonic: Solo Tenor – May, 2021 (Dates TBA)

CHILE

-Teatro Municipal de Chile: Magic Flute – Tamino: June 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 2021

Joel Prieto will close the Oviedo Zarzuela Festival and return to Salzburg Festival

The acclaimed tenor will make his debut at the Teatro Campoamor in June as the male lead in the popular Luisa Fernanda and in summer he will return to the Austrian festival with Orphée aux Enfers

June 2019.

Joel Prieto continues with his list of engagements in Spain.  He is shortly going to perform the role of Javier for the first time, the male lead of Moreno Torroba´s masterpiece, Luisa Fernanda. This will be the Madrid born Puerto-Rican tenor´s debut at the Campoamor theatre,“one of the few opera houses in the country that I hadn´t got to know and which I am very excited about singing in,” the singer affirms.  What is more, this debut will be with a very popular zarzuela “of great importance in the repertoire of the genre, as we are talking about one of the best-known titles both in Spain and in America.  I made my debut in the role in 2008, alongside Plácido Domingo, when I won the Operalia competition,” the young tenor explains.  Prieto has just sung Rodelinda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Falstaff in the Teatro Real. “These have been some very intensive weeks in Spain, in which I have been able to meet up with family in Madrid and work with the amazing teams at the Liceu and the Real. I love working in Spain because the audiences are so warm and knowledgeable.”

The singer recognises that Luisa Fernanda has as much quality as any opera: “it has gorgeous melodies, with a popular touch which captures the audience from the start.  The orchestration is also of great quality.  Also, the well-known Emilio Sagi production which we are putting on at the Campoamor is fantastic, elegant, and beautifully resolved.”  The performances in Oviedo will take place on the 20^th and 22^nd June.

Prieto, who had already performed another of the great zarzuelas, Doña Francisquita (at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, France), will then go to the Salzburg festival for a complete change in genre, as he will be taking the role of Orpheus, the title role of Offenbach´s Orphée aux Enfers, in a new Barrie Kosky production which will revive this great comic opera with a cast of legendary singers such as Anne Sofie von Otter. Performances take place on the 14^th, 17^th, 21^st, 23^rd, 26^th and 30^th August.

Joel Prieto returns to the Teatro Real in Madrid as Fenton in “Falstaff”

– The tenor will sing the Verdi opera after his first Händel in Barcelona

March 2019

Audiences at the Teatro Real in Madrid are very familiar with the musical talent and stage presence of the tenor Joel Prieto. He has already performed there in operas as diverse as The Magic Flute (Mozart) and Street Scene (Weill). After his first incursion into baroque opera (Händel’s Rodelinda, at the Barcelona Liceu), in April, the acclaimed Puerto-Rican tenor, who was born in the Spanish capital, and won the Operalia competition, will return to the Madrid opera house, this time to take the role of Fenton in the opera Falstaff, by Giuseppe Verdi. This is a new production which Laurent Pelly will direct for the Real, and which will be conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Joel Prieto will sing in the first cast on the 23rd, 25th, 27th, 28th and 30th April and the 2nd and 8th May, tailoring the role of Fenton for this new production. Prieto made his debut in this Verdi role at the Barcelona Liceu in the 2010-11 season.

Later, among other projects, he will return to the Salzburg Festival this summer (Austria) as Orphée in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers and to the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Italy) as Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo.