Joel Prieto will sing in the Malaga Classical Festival

– The Spanish-born Puerto Rican tenor will make his debut in Malaga in June, after more performances of Street Scene, by Kurt Weill, at Teatro Real.

May 2018

Joel Prieto’s career is constantly leading him to explore new formats. This season has taken him to venues such as the Dresden Semperoper  (Les Troyens, by Berlioz), the Grand Auditorium in Luxemburg (Die Csárdásfürstin, by Kálmán, alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg), the Teatro Real in Madrid (Street Scene, by Kurt Weill), the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico (Mozart´s Requiem with the Puerto Rico Symphony) and to Santiago de Chile (Don Giovanni, by Mozart), among other engagements. On the 8th, 9th and 10th June he will return to Spain for another change in style.  This will be to sing at the Malaga Classical Festival, where he will participate in two concerts dedicated to Spain (Teatro Echegaray in Malaga) alongside renowned musicians such as Jesús Reina (violin),  Misha Dacić (piano), Eric Silberger (violin),  Alberto Martos (cello), Moritz Winkelmann (piano), Eleanor Kendra James (viola), Char Prescott (cello) Anna Margrethe Nilsen (violin), Christopher Schmitt (piano) and Gabriel Ureña (cello), Joel Prieto will be the only opera singer among them. On the 8th he will be singing music by foreign composers who were, in one way or another, fascinated by Spain and its culture and music, including Beethoven, Rossini, Poulenc, Scarlatti and Fauré.  In the concert on the 10^th he will perform some of the most famous zarzuela romances composed by Sorozábal, Soutullo, Vert and Guerrero, among others.  Between both concerts, on the 9^th June, he will give a masterclass, organized by the Malaga festival.

Before his debut in Malaga, Joel Prieto will return to the Teatro Real in Madrid, the city of his birth, to give more performances as the male lead of Street Scene (26^th, 27^th, 29^th, and 30^th May and 1^st June), which he also did last February at the same theatre in the premiere of Kurt Weill’s American opera in the Spanish capital. This summer, as well, Prieto, who was the winner of the 2008 Operalia competition, will continue in Spain to give two concerts in Palma, Majorca, organized by the Salzburg Festival (5^th and 6^th July) and a third, in the same city, for the Baden-Baden Festival (11^th August).

Joel Prieto will open the season at the Ópera Nacional de Chile

-The Puerto Rican tenor will sing Don Giovanni in April, opening the company’s opera season

April 2018
Mozart has pride of place among Joel Prieto´s engagements, and the acclaimed tenor will once again be performing an opera by the composer on the 16th, 20th, 23rd and 26th April. This will be a production of the second opera in the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy, Don Giovanni, and the performances will open the season at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, home of the Ópera Nacional de Chile. The production is directed by Pierre Constant and conducted by Attilio Cremonesi, who will be working to discover the secrets that Mozart imagined for his version of the Don Juan myth. Alongside Joel Prieto, who will take the role of Don Ottavio, will be Levent Bakirci (Don Giovanni), Michelle Bradley (Donna Anna), Paulina González (Donna Elvira), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Leporello) and Marcela González (Zerlina), among others.
Prieto made his debut at the Municipal in Santiago in 2009 with Pagliacci´s Arlecchino, returning in 2014 with The Magic Flute. The tenor states that he is “delighted” with his return to Chile. “I have fantastic memories of the work we did four years ago at the Municipal, a theatre in which marvellous things can be done, and I am sure that audiences will have a great time with this Don Giovanni, which is fresh and full of dramatism,” he notes.

Born in Madrid (Spain), brought up in Puerto Rico and trained in New York, Joel Prieto will be returning to Santiago de Chile after his triumph at the Madrid Teatro Real in one of the lead roles in Kurt Weill´s Street Scene, and after his return to Puerto Rico for the last concert in this year´s Casals Festival, with a Mozart Requiem alongside the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
After Don Giovanni in Chile, the 2008 Operalia competition winner will return to the Caribbean island to give a concert with the San Juan Children´s Choir (May), he will return to the Teatro Real in Madrid for a new run of performances of Street Scene and will give a recital at the Málaga Clásica Festival (Spain).

Joel Prieto returns to Puerto Rico to sing Mozart

-The tenor will close the Casals Festival on the 17th March, after his Street Scene at the Teatro Real in Madrid

March 2018

The tenor Joel Prieto, who was born in Madrid and raised in Puerto Rico, returns to his island to close the 2018 Casals Festival, conducted by the artistic director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Maximiano Valdés.  The event appeals for international support and understanding, after the tragedy which recently occured in Puerto Rico, when it was ravaged by the hurracanes Irma and Maria. “Together we are fighting to pick up the pieces of our country,” Prieto affirms, “and musical activity, which comforts the soul and gives people strength to carry on, is very important at times like these.” Prieto will go to the Casals Festival to perform in the closing ceremony, in which he will sing Mozart´s Requiem on the 17^th March alongside the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the San Juan Philharmonic Choir and soloists such as the soprano Zulimar López, the mezzo-soprano Celia Sotomayor and the bass Hermán Iturralde.

The tenor will travel to the Caribbean in a break between his performances of the Kurt Weill opera Street Scene at the Teatro Real in Madrid (which opened in February and will return to the Madrid theatre in May and June).  In April he will take the role of Don Ottavio in the opera Don Giovanni, also by Mozart, when he returns to the Ópera Nacional in Santiago de Chile.  Afterwards, in early May, he will go back to Puerto Rico to give a concert with the San Juan Children´s Choir.

The tenor Joel Prieto returns to the Teatro Real with Kurt Weill

–The young singer will be Sam Kaplan in Street Scene at the Madrid opera house.

January 2018
The Madrid born, Puerto Rican tenor Joel Prieto, who won the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition in 2008, makes his debut with operetta repertoire on the 5th January with the lead role in the New Year´s concert in Luxemburg, where he will sing the role of Edwin in Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gipsy Princess), by Emmerich Kálmán, alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. He will continue to add to his repertoire in February on his return to the Teatro Real in Madrid –his city of birth– to take part in the Madrid premiere of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (13th to 18th February and 26th May to 1st June.) The piece, which is being co-produced by Monte-Carlo Opera and Oper Köln, is also known as American Opera or Broadway Opera, terms proposed by the composer himself, and contains some elements of the musical genre. “I am very excited about being able to return to Madrid – the city where I was born and which I adore- and also, of course, to the Teatro Real, which is becoming my second home”, the singer explains; “Street scene is a fascinating piece which mixes various genres – including opera, musical theatre and jazz – and it will give me the opportunity to sing in English for the first time. I am sure that our audiences will really enjoy this opera, which is spectacular in every way, and I am delighted to be a part of it”, he adds.
In spring, Prieto will be singing works by one of his favourite composers – Mozart. In March the tenor will travel to the city where he grew up and trained, San Juan in Puerto Rico, to perform Mozart´s Requiem in the Casals Festival. In April he is engaged to take the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the Ópera Nacional de Chile, at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago.

Joel Prieto sings operetta in Luxembourg

– The Madrid born Puerto Rican tenor makes his debut as Edwin in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin in the New Year´s Concert in Luxembourg.

December 2017
The Puerto Rican tenor Joel Prieto, who has Spanish origins and was winner of the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition in 2009, will sing the role of Edwin for the first time in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gipsy Princess), by Emmerich Kálmán.  The award-winning Hispanic artist´s  debut with this new theatrical genre will take place at the New Year´s Concert given by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg conducted by Nikolaj Znaider, and will take place in the Grand Auditorium of the capital of the Grand Duchy.

Later Joel Prieto will travel to the Teatro Real in Madrid, this time with a genre related to opera and American musical, the Madrid premiere of Kurt Weill´s Street Scene (February), which is known as an American opera.  In March Prieto will be at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico for Mozart´s Requiem  and in April he will be expected by the Chile National Opera, where he will perform Don Ottavio in Mozart´s Don Giovanni at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago.

Joel Prieto starts the new season in Dresden

– The Puerto-Rican / Spanish tenor will open the season at the Semperoper this October in Les Troyens, before returning to Madrid, Puerto Rico and Santiago de Chile.

August 2017
After a season during which he accumulated triumphs and debuts in Europe, America and Asia with engagements in Toulouse, Warsaw, Tokyo, Los Angeles Dresden, Moscow and Beijing, Joel Prieto will begin the new season in October by taking on the role of Iopas once again in the Berlioz opera Les Troyens. Prieto has already sung in this opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and this time will be performing it at the Semperoper in Dresden on the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 21st and 27th October and the 3rd November.
With a vibrant score which is musically explosive, this great opera is based on Virgil’s Aeneid and is only very rarely performed due to its complexity. It tells an epic story of war and peace, true to the spirit of French Romanticism, and between the choir and the soloists gathers together more than 120 singers on stage. The performances in Dresden will be conducted by Lothar Koenigs in a new production directed by Lydia Steier.

For Joel Prieto the last season “was dizzying. Throughout the season my beloved Mozart accompanied me in debuts full of emotion in which I trod the boards at some of the most emblematic theatres where I have always dreamed of singing, such as the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing, as well as having the opportunity to perform Mozart’s Ninth Symphony alongside the Tokyo NHK Symphony Orchestra, no less,” the tenor explains. “I am immensely looking forward to throwing myself into new repertoire over the next few months, which I am sure will bring me marvellous experiences,” he adds.

After this opening in Germany Joel Prieto will be returning to many other venues including the Teatro Real in Madrid – the city of his birth – a theatre where he made his debut two years ago in The Magic Flute and where he will be returning with one of the most talked about events in the Spanish cultural calendar, the premiere of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (February 2018). There will also be his long-awaited return to Puerto Rico, where the singer grew up, in a concert within the Casals Festival programme which will mark a very special moment for him and in which he will perform Mozart’s Requiem (March 2018); in April he will go back to the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, this time to take the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

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