Ricardo Tamura
Ricardo Tamura is a Brazilian Tenor.
Early life and Education[edit]
Ricardo Tamura was born and grew up in São Paulo. Being a highly gifted person, he finished High School at the age of 15. By age 20 he earned two Bachelor degrees in Geology and Physics from the University of São Paulo. While working on his third degree in Geophysics at the same University, he started teaching Geology as an Assistant Fellow. In addition, he worked as a Computer Science teacher and as a chess instructor at the Colégio Bandeirantes in São Paulo. In his spare time, he started to take voice lessons[1].
After auditioning for the famous Soprano Licia Albanese in New York, he decided to apply to the Juilliard School of Music. He was accepted to their Graduate Program and received a scholarship to study voice with Marlena Malas. Later, he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, and the Accademia Verdiana under the guidance of Carlo Bergonzi in Busseto. He also took private lessons with Licia Albanese, Carlo Bergonzi, and German conductor Bernhard Lang[2].
Career[edit]
His first engagement as a singer was as a member of the Internationale Opernstudio at the Zürich Opera House. He has lived in Europe ever since and has appeared regularly in a variety of mostly German-speaking Opera Houses, among them, the Staatsoper Hannover, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, Staatstheater Kassel, and the Vienna Volksoper[3]. As a concert singer, he appeared at the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Kölner Philharmonie, with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan, in Taiwan and in Israel. His largest audience (about 60,000 people) attended an open-air concert (2008) at the Luitpoldhain in Nuremberg, Germany[4]. His concert repertoire stretches from Händel's "The Messiah" to Verdi's Requiem, and includes works as different as Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana", Dvorak's "Requiem", and Bacalov's "Misa Tango". He has worked with conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Chen Zimbalista, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Oren, Pier-Giorgio Morandi, Lothar Koenigs, James Levine, and Placido Domingo[5].
Outside of Germany, Ricardo Tamura has appeared, among others, as Radames ("Aida") at the Arena di Verona, as Bacchus ("Ariadne auf Naxos") at the Welsh National Opera, as Erik ("The Flying Dutchman") at the Festival de Opera de Belém (Brazil), and as Calaf ("Turandot") at the Volksoper Vienna as well as the Wichita Grand Opera. He had his Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2013, as Cavaradossi ("Tosca"), and has returned in the title role of Verdi's five-acts "Don Carlo", as Riccardo, in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera", and as Turiddu, in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"[6]. He became the first Brasilian tenor ever to sing a leading role at the MET.
After suffering a severe brain hemorrhage in 2017, he was forced to take a break from his international career. Contrary to all expectations, he was back on stage ten weeks later and has since then appeared in many operas of his main repertoire (like "Tosca", "Carmen, "Manon Lescaut")[7], and debuted in a completely new one: In the title role of Wagner's "Rienzi"[8]. He currently lives in Nuremberg (Germany).
Discography[edit]
- H.W. Henze: Das Wundertheater (als Chanfalla), 2006, ARS Production
- P. Illanes-Tatsuoka: Entre Jupiter Y Marte, 2017, Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka
Awards[edit]
- "Künstler der Spielzeit 2000/01" ("Artist of the Season 2000/01"), Theaterverein Osnabrück, 2001
- Role Preparation Grant, The Sullivan Awards, N. York, 08/1997, 07/1996, 07/1994, 11/1992
- Erster Preis: 5° Concurso Internacional de Canto Carlos Gomes (Grande Concurso do Centenário), Rio de Janeiro, 07/1996
- Finalist: 14th International Belvedere-Hans Gabor Vocal Competition, Vienna, 07/1995
- Second Award: The New Jersey State Opera Vocal Competition, New Jersey, 1995
- Highest award : 1st South American Vocal Competition, Barra Bonita, Brasilien, 08/1993
- Highest award: The Loren Zachary Society Voice Competition, Pasadena (CA), 05/1993
- Honorary award: 3rd Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition, New Jersey, 09/1992
- Highest award: The Licia Albanese - Puccini Foundation Auditions, N. York, 1992
References[edit]
- ↑ Necula, C: "Ricardo Tamura : Brazilian Tenor, Jedi Tactics", CS Music (October 1, 2003) [1]
- ↑ Artist biography at Lombardo Associates Artists Personal Managers [2]
- ↑ Artist biography at Berlin Opera Academy [3]
- ↑ Münchner Abendzeitung: "60.000 feierten das Klassik-Open Air" (July 28, 2008). [4]
- ↑ Artist biography at Opernakademie Henfenfeld [5]
- ↑ Artist biography at Lombardo Associates Artists Personal Managers [6]
- ↑ Döring, R.: "Aus Überzeugung zurück am Theater Osnabrück: Tenor Ricardo Tamura", Osnabrücker Zeitung (January 14, 2019).[7]
- ↑ Rödler, P.: "Der letzte der Tribunen", Wochenblatt Reporter (May 6, 2019). [8]
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