The tenor Joel Prieto makes his debut in China in The Magic Flute

–The singer, who was born in Madrid and brought up in Puerto Rico, will take the role of Tamino on the 21st and 23rd July at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing.

June 2017

After his performances in the opera houses of Dresden, Düsseldorf, Warsaw and Moscow over the last few months, the Spanish-Puerto Rican tenor Joel Prieto will once again wear the mantle of Prince Tamino in Mozart´s The Magic Flute. It was in this role that he recently made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, to great acclaim, and he will now take it again for his debut in China at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in the capital city (21st and 23rd July). Once again he will be performing in Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade´s innovative production for the Berlin Komische Oper which is inspired by the silent movie genre and which Joel Prieto has already performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Warsaw Opera and the Bolshoi in Moscow.

So far this year the young tenor has appeared in some of the most important theatres in the world, in each case in Mozart operas.  These theatres include Los Angeles Opera (The Abduction from the Seraglio); the Dresden Semperoper (The Abduction from the Seraglio); The Grand Theatre, Warsaw (The Magic Flute); and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (The Magic Flute).

However, not all Joel Prieto´s upcoming engagements are Mozart. After his debut in Beijing (China) he is returning to the Dresden Semperoper as Iopas in Les Troyens, by Berlioz. He will also return to the Teatro Real in Madrid to perform in Kurt Weill´s Street Scene; he will make his debut at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico with Mozart´s Requiem and will also return to the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.

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Joel Prieto makes his debut at the Bolshoi in Moscow

-The tenor, who was performing in Dresden, Düsseldorf and Warsaw in April and May, will sing for the first time at the legendary Russian theatre.  He will be Prince Tamino in The Magic Flute

April 2017

The tenor Joel Prieto goes from one triumph to another and he continues to conquer new opera houses.  Last January he made his debut at the Los Angeles Opera (USA) with Mozart´s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in March he participated in the traditional AIDS Gala 2017 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; in April he returned to the Semperoper in Dresden (Germany) with his  Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, for the first time in Europe – in seven performances, which will be extended throughout May and June.  There was also a one-off performance as Tamino in The Magic Flute in April at the Warsaw Opera House (Teatr Wielki, Polonia), home of the Polish National Opera, in the acclaimed production by Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade which pays homage to silent cinema and which Prieto had also already performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Joel Prieto will add a new debut to all this; one which he is especially excited about: he will be appearing on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow for the first time.  Here he will sing his acclaimed Prince Tamino in The Magic Flute on the 24th and 25th May, also in Kosky´s renowned production, and the seats are already sold out.  “This is certainly turning out to be a year of debuts, both of roles and new theatres.  I feel passionate about singing in a legendary theatre with such a great tradition as the Bolshoi, especially as this will be in a production in which I have already performed in various theatres, and which I love,” explains the singer.

Prieto was the winner of the Operalia Competition in 2008, and as well as the  success he has had with Mozart wherever he goes, he also sings other repertoire such as Romantic bel-canto, French Romantic opera, as well as some of the most outstanding zarzuelas.  Joel Prieto´s diary is jam-packed with engagements for the next three years, and some of the highlights among these are his debut in Beijing (China) with The Magic Flute; his return to the Dresden Semperoper as Iopas in Les Troyens, by Berlioz; he will return to the Teatro Real in Madrid to perform in Kurt Weill´s Street Scene, in a new co-production of this “American opera”, as Weill himself called it, by the Madrid Real, the Monte-Carlo opera and Oper Köln.  Prieto will also make a debut at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico with Mozart´s Requiem, as well as returning to the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, this time to take on the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.

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Joel Prieto to sing “The Flute” and “The Abduction”

-The tenor returns to Dresden and Warsaw in April and May, in both cases with Mozart operas.

March 2017
The tenor Joel Prieto, winner of the 2008 Operalia Competition, made his debut at the Los Angeles Opera (USA) this January as Belmonte in the Mozart opera The Abduction from the Seraglio– “probably the most difficult role that I have sung in my career,” according to the young singer, who triumphed on the occasion with both audiences and critics alike. “Prieto has Mozartian vocal virtues, with a delicate line, excellent passagio and infinite fiato … His is a voice of true quality… His performance reached perfection”. “Joel Prieto sang a Belmonte almost with the sound of the oboe, always in the exact centre of the note”.

The tenor, who was born in Madrid, brought up in Puerto Rico and trained in New York, will be faithful to Mozart throughout April, May and June. He will return to the Dresden Semperoper (Germany) to sing Belmonte in seven performances, whilst, on the 28th April, he will give a one-off performance as Prince Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw (Poland), where the Polish National Opera is based. This will be a repeat of the acclaimed Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade production which Prieto has already performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Spain) as well as in the main opera house in the Polish capital.

In Dresden, however, Joel Prieto will be Belmonte in a production directed by Michiel Dijkema and conducted by Christopher Moulds.

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Joel Prieto makes his debut in Los Angeles

-The young Operalia winning tenor will be Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Joel Prieto has so far dedicated a great part of his career to Mozart’s music. From the time that he won first prize in the Operalia World Opera Competition in 2008 the tenor, who was born in Madrid, raised in Puerto Rico and trained in New York, has found Mozart’s oeuvre to be one of his greatest allies. At the end of January, he will make his debut at LA Opera (USA) for the first time in the role of another of Mozart’s characters, Belmonte, the male lead in The Abduction from the Seraglio.

After a year which has been almost entirely devoted to Tamino, the prince in Die Zauberflöte (in Madrid and Warsaw) and to Ferrando, in Così fan tutte (in Aix-en-Provence, New York, London and Edinburgh), Joel Prieto begins 2017 by incorporating this new role to his repertoire, and he will later perform the opera again at the Semperoper Dresde (Germany). “The role of Belmonte is probably the most difficult Mozart character that I have sung until now. He is a type of mixture between Tamino, Don Ottavio and Ferrando, all in one. One needs a good mastery of line, good diction, control of coloratura and to be able to move around the passaggio with ease. Also, the register is high and it is necessary to work on depth on the emotional plane. With this type of role you need a lot of experience in this style. In fact, I was offered this role many years ago, and I turned it down, because I knew intuitively that I still had a lot to learn”. For the tenor, this is a “very complete” character, “which I am very pleased to make my debut in at this moment of my career, after having sung various Mozart roles for over 10 years in many theatres around the world.”

But it is not all Mozart in the young singer’s diary. As well as having sung the Berlioz opera Béatrice et Bénédicte (Toulouse) in September and October, in December he dedicated himself to Beethoven by travelling to Tokyo to sing the Ninth Symphony alongside the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Opera Singers Choir.

In Los Angeles he will give six performances of (28th January and 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th February) in a James Robinson production, conducted by the musical director of the LA Opera, James Conlon.

The tenor Joel Prieto, on tour in Poland and Japan

–The Spanish tenor Joel Prieto will be Tamino in Warsaw before singing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Japan

Joel Prieto, born in Madrid and brought up in Puerto Rico, continues with his unstoppable international career, very much focused on his favourite composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After singing the role of Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in Madrid and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (France), the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, the BBC Proms in London and the Edinburgh Festival (Scotland), this famed singer, who trained in Puerto Rico and the USA, has taken a break from his Mozart engagements to take the role of Bénédicte in the Berlioz opera Béatrice et Bénédicte at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (France) in September and October.

In December he will make his debut at the Teatr Wielki, the main opera house in Warsaw (Poland), once again in the role of Prince Tamino in Die Zauberflote. This will be in the same production in which he triumphed at the Teatro Real in Madrid last January, directed by Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky, and which is inspired by silent movies (on the 11th, 13th and 15th December).
Later in December he will travel to Tokyo (Japan) to sing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Opera Singers Choir (21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 27th), conducted by the maestro Herbert Blomstedt; this engagement will mark his debut in Japan and will also be his debut performance of this monumental Beethoven composition.

Joel Prieto will begin 2017 with a new and important step in his career: his debut at Los Angeles Opera (USA), also with Mozart, this time as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Joel Prieto’s “dark, burnished tenor” highlighted in ‘Così fan tutte’ at Lincoln Center

“Joel Prieto’s dark, burnished tenor brought virility to Ferrando…”

Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal

“From Joel Prieto‘s easily-produced, powerful voice that still maintained beauty of tone (his “Aura Amorosa” was a masterclass in legato) as Ferrando.

–The Huffington Post