Bolshoi Theatre • Edgardo Rocha

Tenor

Edgardo
Rocha

Edgardo Rocha

Edgardo Rocha was born in Rivera, Uruguay, where he graduated in piano, studied choral-orchestral conducting at the University of the Republic and began his voice preparation with Beatriz Pazos and Raquel Pierotti. He moved 2008 to Italy, where he studied with the prestigious tenor Salvatore Fisichella and attended the Rossini-Master Classes of the tenor Rockwell Blake and of the baritone Alessandro Corbelli.

He debuted as Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini) in Cesena, Italy. Due to the obtained success at the Festival della Valle d’Itria Martina Franca (2010) as Donizetti’s Gianni di Parigi, he began his career in Italy and abroad.

He sang at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Circuito Lirico Lombardo, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera National de Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Opera di Stuttgart, Teatro Maestranza di Siviglia, Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Teatro Coccia Novara, Opernhaus Zürich, Opera de Versailles, Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro San Carlo Napoli and Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro Real de Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opera de Lausanne, Israeli Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, Opera di Roma, Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seattle Opera, as well as Wexford Festival, Salzburg Festspiele, Bergen Festival, Luzern Festival, Beaune Festival, at the Auditorio de Madrid, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia di Valencia, Lausanne, Bilbao, Montecarlo, Dortmunt, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concergebaw in Amsterdam.

In 2021 made his Bolshoi Theatre debut as Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims production.

Awards

Repertoire

Gianni (Gianni di Parigi) — Wexford Festival, Festival della Valle d’Itria Martina Franca

Don Ramiro (La cenerentola) — Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Circuito Lirico Lombardo, Опера Штутгарта, Bergen Festival, Seattle Opera, Opera di Stuttgart, Teatro Maestranza di Siviglia, Beaune Festival, Lausanne, Bilbao, Montecarlo, Dortmunt, Opera de Monte Carlo, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera de Versailles, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Auditorio de Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona

Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) — Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia di Valencia, Opéra de Lausanne, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Opera National de Paris, Israeli Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Arte Lugano e Cultura

Ernesto (Don Pasquale) — Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Filarmonico di Verona

Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri) — Teatro dell’opera Giocosa Savona, Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Wiener Staatsoper, Opera de Nancy, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Salzburg Festspiele

Ferrando (Così fan tutte) — Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Regio di Torino

Paolino (Il matrimonio segreto) — Teatro Coccia Novara

Дорвиль (Rossini’s La scala di seta) — Opernhaus Zürich

Jago (Rossini’s Otello) — Teatro alla Scala, Opernhaus Zürich

Rodrigo (Rossini’s Otello) — Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Троицкий фестиваль в Зальцбурге

Count Alberto (La Gazzeta) — Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liège

Narciso (Il turco in Italia) — Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro alla Scala, Zürich Opera

Cavaliere Belfiore (Il viaggio a Reims) — Zürich Opera

Conte di Libenskof (Il viaggio a Reims) — Semperoper Dresden

Граф Ори (Rossini’s Le comte Ory) — Zürich Opera

Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles) — Opera de Nancy

Arturo (I Puritani) — Stuttgart Opera

Leopold (Halevy’s La Juive) — Bayerische Staatsoper

Джаннетто (La Gazza ladra) — Teatro alla Scala

Giacomo V, Уберто (Rossini’s La donna del lago) — Pfingstfestpiele in Salzburg, Opéra de Marseille

Riccardo Percy (Anna Bolena) — Opéra de Lausanne

The artist sustains a rich concert activity, interpreting Mozart’s Requiem, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Weihnachtsoratorium, Osteroratorium, Magnificat and Cantatas BWV 10, 147 and 182 by J. S. Bach, together with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo and the SODRE in Uruguay, The ways of Zion do mourn by Haendel with the Baroque Orchestra of Pisa, Charpentier’s Te Deum at the Teatro Comunale Firenze with the Camerata del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Teatro Verdi Trieste, Maggio musicale Fiorentino, Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Festival de Saint-Dennis, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestra della Rai di Torino.

He has collaborated with following conductors: Giacomo Sagripanti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Riccardo Frizza, Myung-Whun Chung, Alan Curtis, Jonathan Webb, Christopher Franklin, Daniele Rustioni, Michael Güttler, Bruno Campanella, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Omer Meir Wellber, Enrique Mazzola, Stefano Montanari, Rani Calderón, Betrand de Billy, Stefano Ranzani, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Antonello Allemandi, Donato Renzetti, Gianluca Capuano, Ottavio Dantone, and stage directors: Jonathan Miller, Damiano Michieletto, Moshe Leiser/ Patrice Caurier, Ettore Scola, Joan Font, Rosetta Cucchi, Emilio Sagi, Antonio Albanese, Carlo Verdone, Filippo Crivelli, Stefano Mazzonis, Adriano Sinivia, Jossi Wieler, Christopher Alden, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Calixto Bieito, Jürgen Flimm.

Edgardo Rocha is Don Ramiro in the film La Cenerentola una favola in diretta, produced by Andrea Anderman for the Rai Television and broadcasted Live in Mondovision in June 2012, directed by Carlo Verdone and conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti.

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM