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A concert
like no other, this trio from South of the Border follows in the footsteps
of other three tenor groups like the Three Irish Tenors and Three Mo’
Tenors who feature the music of their culture. The passionate performance
of Mexico’s Three Tenors is a musical explosion of the operatic tenor
favorites featuring arias like La Donna e’mobile, Nessun Dorma, and Dein
ist Mein Ganze Herz. Though these are very exciting pieces of music,
the fireworks really begin with the introduction of popular Mexican
pieces. Spanning generations and styles of Latin music to include bolero,
ranchera and zarzuela, this trio shines brightest when singing these
famous masterpieces of music which include Besame Mucho, Solemente una
Vez, Granada, Jurame and Porque. No other music can evoke the
unbridled passion in performance that Latin music can.
Cesar Rodriguez
began his musical studies at the age of 6, graduating from the Escuela
Superior de Musica y Danza in Monterrey, Mexico, with a degree in piano.
At the age of 17, he began to sing small operatic roles at Bellas Arts,
later singing larger roles throughout Mexico. He has performed with
conductors such as Enrique Patron, Mario Rodriguez Tabuada, Ramon Shade,
Anton Guadagno, and Felix Carrasco. He has recently triumphed in the role
of Almaviva in Barber of Seville in a tour throughout northern
Mexico. He is also a sought after concert performer and recitalist,
performing in the largest cities of Mexico.
Ricardo Rodriguez began his musical studies at the Escuela Superior de Musica Danza in
Monterrey, Mexico, graduating with a degree in singing. His professional
debut came in 1991 with the National Opera Company on tour in Guanajuato,
Mexico, interpreting the role of Almaviva in Barber
of Seville. He has been conducted in operas and recitals by Anton
Guadagno, Carl Seale, John de Main, Feliz Carrasco, Mario Rodriguez
Tabuada, Enrique Patron, and Ramon Shade. He specializes as well in
zarzuela and oratorio, producing as well as taking starring roles in the
theater Foro Pro Cultura in Monterrey, Mexico. Some of his credits include
zarzuelas Don Gil de Acala, Luisa Fernanda, Dona Franscisquita, and
El Goto Monies, and operas Elixir of Love, Cenerentola, The Merry
Widow, and I Puritani.
Manuel Acosta
has received acclamations for having a warm and captivating voice. Early
in his career Mr. Acosta was already performing in roles like Nemorino in Elixir of Love
and Alfredo in La Traviata. He made his debut in the National
Theatre of Fine Arts (Bellas Artes) in Mexico City singing the role of the
messenger in Aida. While in Europe, he performed at Wiesbadener
Theater as Gaston in La Traviata, as the prisoner in Fidelio,
and as one of the disciples in Die Meister-singer von Nurnberg, as
well as in the Die Badhersfeld Festspiele as Naraboth in Richard
Strauss' Salome, and Hans in Smetana's Die verkaufte Braut.
In Mexico he has sung the roles of Rodolfo in La Boheme, Tamino in Die
Zauberfloete, Don Octavio in Don Giovanni, and Romeo in Romeo et Juliet,
as well leading tenor roles in the zarzuelas Luisa Fernanda, and Los
Galilieans. An accomplished oratorio vocalists, Mr. Acosta has also
performed the solos in Beethoven's 9th, Handel's Messiah,
Mozart's Coronation Mass, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. In
1998, Mr. Acosta recorded for Disney's Buena Vista Studios the
remasterization in Spanish of the animated film Sleeping Beauty,
doing the singing and spoken voice the Prince. In May 2001, Mr. Acosta
made his American debut as Rodolfo in the Natchez Opera Festival's
production of La Boheme. He will reprise that role with the Cedar
Rapids Opera Theater.
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