Stefano Palatchi

Stefano Palatchi is a Spanish opera singer who has sung leading bass roles in both Spain and internationally where he is known for his stage skills, timbre and expressive singing.

Biography

Stefano Palatchi, from the city of Barcelona, studied with Maya Maiska, Gino Bechi, Ettore Campogaliani and Armen Boyajian, in his native town as well as in Florence and New York. He has been singing for more than 20 years now and with his presence in many Spanish opera season and in some of the most important international theatres, he has become an indispensable singer-actor and one of the most important Spanish basses of the last decades. Since his debut in the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, in 1986, his career has been a success and he has won the affection of audiences. In his continued relationship with the Barcelona theatre, he has taken part in several hundred performances of more than thirty operas from a wide repertoire, in particular, by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, and from romantic belcanto: "Rigoletto", "Aida", "Turandot", "Il Trovatore", "La Bohème", "Macbeth", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La forza del destino" and "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", besides French opera –"Samson et Dalila", "Thaïs", and world premières such as "Cristóbal Colón", by Leonardo Balada, with Montserrat Caballé and José Carreras, or "Gaudí", by Joan Guinjoan. Moreover, Palatchi was one of the protagonists in the reopening of the new Liceu in 1999, taking part in the opera "Turandot". The singer has performed in opera seasons and festivals in cities like Madrid, Bilbao, Oviedo, Seville, Paris, Rome, Marseille, Lisbon, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Puerto Rico, Washington, San Francisco, Verona, Peralada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or New York, collaborating with outstanding conductors (Gardelli, Bonynge, Zedda, Santi, Oren, López Cobos, Menotti, Rilling, Rozhdestvensky, Ros Marbà, Guingal or Armiliato) and always in the company of artists such as Caballé, Sutherland, Freni, Gruberova, Domingo, Carreras, Kraus, Alagna, Aragall, Gheorghiu, Cura, Berganza, Zajick, Bartoli, Milnes, Bruson and many others.

In the field of concerts, Stefano Palatchi has extensive experience in works like Mozart's "Requiem" or Verdi's "Requiem Mass". His schedule includes performances at Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatre Principal de Palma de Mallorca, Festival de Ópera Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Modena's Auditorium –where the last December he took part in the world première of the opera Joc de Mans, by Alberto García Demestres-, Gran Teatro de Córdoba, Festival de los Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña, Ópera de Oviedo and, of course, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Discography

Stefano Palatchi has an extensive recording career, with works for Decca, RTVE Música, Columna Música, Nightingale Classics, Koch Discover, Astrée Auvidis, Auvidis, Auvidis Valois, Sello Autor and Opus Arte. With the recording of "La Dolores", by Bretón, he obtained a Latin Grammy Award (2000); with "Margarita la Tornera", by Chapí, he was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award (2003); and with El Gato con Botas, by Montsalvatge, he obtained a nomination for the Grammy Awards (2004).

Repertory

External links

* [http://www.stefanopalatchi.com/ Official web page]