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.

Joel Prieto returns to the  Barcelona Liceu with “Rodelinda”

The tenor will take the role of Grimoaldo in this Händel opera, in its first performance at the Barcelona opera house

February 2019

The Madrid-born Puerto-Rican tenor, Joel Prieto, is returning to the Gran Teatre del Liceu, this time to take the role of Grimoaldo in the Händel opera Rodelinda, which will be making its premiere at the Barcelona opera house.  The production, directed by Claus Guth, was programmed in Madrid at the Teatro Real in the 2016/17 season and is co-produced also by Frankfurt Opera and the Lyon Opera National.

For Joel Prieto, this Händel opera means his debut in baroque music, “a style which has always attracted me, and which I have longed to get involved in for some time.  I love the elegant line of the singing, and getting to grips with a new style of ornamentation is a wonderful challenge for my voice. Over the last few years Mozart has been at the center of my repertoire, and from there I have been exploring many other composers, from Donizetti to Verdi or Berlioz, with some incursions into repertoire by Wagner, Leoncavallo, Richard Strauss and Kurt Weill, as well as composers who were Mozart´s contemporaries, such as Martín y Soler, and not to forget the occasional zarzuela. This is why I am excited by this new adventure,” the tenor explains.

In the Liceu, Prieto, who won the Operalia Competition in 2008, will be performing alongside the soprano Lisette Oropesa and the countertenor Bejun Mehta (performances: 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 13th and 15th March 2019).

After his recent debut as Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, and his performances in Barcelona, upcoming engagements will take the tenor to the Teatro Real in Madrid for Falstaff (as Fenton), a debut at the Campoamor theatre in Oviedo with Luisa Fernanda (as Javier) and his return to the Salzburg Festival, this time as Orpheus in Offenbach´s Orphée aux enfers.

Info:
www.joelprieto.com
https://www.liceubarcelona.cat/es/temporada-2018-2019/opera/rodelinda

Joel Prieto makes his debut at La Monnaie in Brussels with a Donizetti opera

-The tenor will be singing in the Belgian capital for the first time, and he will be taking the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale

November 2018
The Spanish-born Puerto-Rican tenor Joel Prieto will make his debut at La Monnaie / De Munt opera house in Brussels this December as the tender Ernesto in the Donizetti opera Don Pasquale. The singer will travel to Belgium from Switzerland, where he has just triumphed with his acclaimed Ferrando in Mozart´s Così fan tutte at Lausanne Opera. His debut on stage at La Monnaie / De Munt will give Prieto the opportunity to return to a role in which he made his debut in 2013 at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome – where he will be returning next year with another Mozart role, Idamante, in Idomeneo, re di Creta– which he also sang in 2014 at Opera de Puerto Rico. “I am very excited about getting back to Donizetti” –the singer explains– “he is one of my favourite composers and every time I have taken on one of his roles it has brought me great joy. I am crazy about geting into the role of Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore and I just can´t wait to make my debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, a role which I am studying deeply and which I enjoy every note of”, he concludes.
In the Brussels Don Pasquale, Prieto will take the lead role in an imaginative Laurent Pelly production, sharing the stage with other great specialists in bel-canto such as Michele Pertusi and Danielle de Niese, members of the first cast in a series of eleven performances. Joel Prieto will appear in the performances programmed on the 9th (premiere), 12th, 14th, 16th, 19th and 21st December, all conducted by Alain Altinoglu. “Singing at La Monnaie in Brussels alongside a top-flight cast is fantastic; it is an opera house that I hadn´t performed at so far, and the opportunity has come to me at the best time”, the tenor explains.
Later, among his upcoming engagements and continuing to add new repertoire, are his return to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (with Händel´s Rodelinda, in March) and the Teatro Real in Madrid (with Verdi´s Falstaff in April and May).

Joel Prieto makes his debut at the Opéra de Lausanne

-He will take the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte, one of the Mozart characters that has brought him most success.

July 2018
The tenor Joel Prieto will begin the 18/19 season with one of his favourite roles in his debut at the Opéra de Lausanne: he will be Ferrando in Così fan tutte. The Mozart opera will be performed at the Swiss opera house on the 28th and 30th October and the 2nd, 4th and 7th November. It is a Jean Liermier production and will be conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. There is more music by Mozart than by any other composer in the Puerto Rican tenor´s repertoire. Prieto won the 2009 Placido Domingo Operalia competition and considers that the genius from Salzburg forms part of his DNA. “The truth is that I feel really at home with Mozart, really comfortable. His music has accompanied me from the beginning of my career and I adore all of the Mozart characters that I have performed, but it is true that my horizons are widening to include other repertoire which I also feel very comfortable with. My voice is evolving, and I love taking on new challenges”, the singer explains.
However, going back to Mozart from time to time is synonymous with vocal health. Ferrando in Così fan tutte is, in fact, one of the characters from Mozart operas that Joel Prieto has performed the most. “And it is very good for my voice. I have sung the role in all types of productions, traditional, modern and even ground-breaking. In each case, the nobility and humanity of the character shine through. The role has one of the seemingly most simple Mozart arias, ‘Un aura amorosa,’ which is actually very demanding when it comes to concentration and line”. A decade has now passed since Joel Prieto first sung Ferrando in his 2009 debut at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, and he has since sung it at theatres such as the Scottish Opera in Glasgow, Luxembourg Opera, Palm Beach Opera in Florida (USA), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Washington National Opera and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, as well as performing it at festivals such as 2Mondi in Spoleto, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, the BBC Proms in London and Mostly Mozart in New York.
Other upcoming engagements include Don Pasquale by Donizetti at La Monnaie and De Munt in Brussels, Händel´s Rodelinda at the Liceu in Barcelona, Verdi´s Falstaff at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Verdi) and Mozart´s Idomeneo at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.