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| Rafael Fingerlos |
An eagle-eyed reader introduced us to barihunk Rafael Fingerlos, who he noticed was singing the world premiere of Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburg Festival this summer with fellow barihunk David Adam Moore, hunkentenor deluxe Ed Lyon
and the legendary baritone Sir Thomas Allen. The all-star cast also
includes Anne Sofie von Otter, Sally Matthews, Charles Workman, Iestyn
Davies, Eric Halvarson and Audrey Luna with performances running from
July 28-August 8.
The
Exterminating Angel is inspired by the 1962 film El ángel exterminador
by the famed surrealist Luis Buñuel. The Salzburg performances will be
followed by productions at The Royal Opera in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in
2017. Buñuel’s film, a parable on the ‘bourgeois condition’, sees a
collection of society’s grandees trapped in a room; in no time at all
their veneer of sophistication cracks.
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| Barihunk David Adam Moore and Hunkentenor Ed Lyon are both appearing in Salzburg |
Fingerlos hails from Mariapfarr in the Salzburg region of Austria, so music is in his blood. In 2013, he graduated with honors from his master’s program in solo vocal
performance at the private Conservatory of Vienna and won the “Musica Juventutis” auditions at
the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna.
He also won the Brahms singing
competition and received first prize as well
as the public’s choice prize at the International Franz Schubert Lied
Competition held in Steyr. As a participant in the Young Singers Project at the
2015 Salzburg Festival, Rafael sang the part of Figaro in Der Barbier von Sevilla für Kinder.
Rafael Fingerlos sings Brahms' "Wie rafft' ich mich auf":
This Fall, he will alternate the title role in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia
at the Vienna State Opera with fellow barihunk Alessio Arduini. His
Rosina will be Isabel Leonard and Almaviva will be sung by hunkentenor
Pavel Kolgatin.
He has released a solo CD of romantic
German Lieder and one of Bach’s cantatas.
