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Friday 21

Arráncame la vida
Violeta Dávalos (soprano)

Program:

Music from Spain and México

Venue: Casa de la Cultura de Tonalá (Morelos 180, centro)
Time: 20:00 hrs.

Admission free

Violeta Dávalos

Violeta Dávalos started studying music when she was seven years old, Took singing with Enrique Jason and flute with Rubén Islas, at the National Music School of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Her operatic debut took place when she was only 20 years old, as protagonist of Verdi’s Aida, in a monumental production offered in Mexico under the conduction of Giuseppe Raffa. After this successful debut, her career has continued ascending and she has incarnated different roles as Tosca and Madama Butterfly, as well as Mimi in G. Puccini‘s La Boehme, Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, also by Verdi and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, but also in Salud from La Vida Breve by Manuel de Falla, and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni, which was recently interpreted for the closing of the 2009 Opera Season at Bellas Artes.

Singing Opera written by Mexican authors has been always present in her career. Among those interpreted by her, we have the world premieres of Ambrosio by José Antonio Guzmán, Alicia y Brindis por un milenio, by Federico Ibarra. She has also sung Ildegonda written by Melesio Morales, previously presented in Mexico. Another Mexican Operas in which she has had the leading role were: El Regreso de Orestes by Roberto Bañuelas and Tata Vasco by Bernal Jiménez. Her interpretation of Princesa Coyuva earned her an invitation to sing in the 2010 Season of the Ópera de Bellas Artes, special occasion for the Bicentennial Celebration.

Operetta and Zarzuela are also in her repertoire, and she was cast in the main roles of La Viuda Alegre, La Revoltosa and La Leyenda del Beso.

But she also has sung religious music, fundamental part of her repertoire: The Requiem Mass written by Verdi, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mozart’s Crowning Mass, and Dies Irae, written by Penderecki.

Violeta Dávalos is a familiar figure in the most important scenarios in Mexico and in several Latin American ones. She has appears with the New England Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in New York, and she has sung opera and concerts at the Teatro de Mahón, in Spain.

Ramón Vargas, Rolando Villazón, Aquiles Machado Juan Pons and Paul Plishka have all appeared with her along her career. She has sung, among others, under these conductors: Enrique Bátiz, Eduardo Díazmuñoz, Fernando Lozano, Kurt Klippstater, Giuseppe Raffa, Miklaus Takas, Enrique Ricci, José Guadalupe Flores, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Enrique Barrios and Marco Zambelli.

In international competitions, she has won several prizes, and among the most important, she obtained First Place in the Concurso Iberoamericano de Canto, where she also received the Giuseppe VerdiAward and the Premio Especial de la Ópera de Mahón; the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition, in which he was a finalist. She has also been a winner in the Carlo Morelli, Fanny Anitua Singing Competitions; in the Francisco Araiza y Jóvenes Intérpretes de la Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, all of them in Mexico. The Unión de Cronistas de Música y Teatro gave her a Premio a la Excelencia, for her work in the operatic field. In 1992, she received the Premio Nacional de la Juventud, granted yearly by the Mexican Government, as well as the Beca para Intérpretes by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

Within her recordings there are several operas: Ambrosio by José Antonio Guzmán, Tata Vasco by Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Cantata Homenaje a Juárez by Blas Galindo, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México and conducted by Enrique Bátiz. She also has recorded an Operatic Gala and the opera Ildegonda by Melesio Morales, both under Fernando Lozano as conductor, and the latter was granted the Orphee d’Or in France, being the first time that a foreign recording is granted such a prize in France.

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