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Jordi Domènech
was born in Manlleu (Barcelona) and attended the Conservatori Superior
Municipal de Música in Barcelona where he finished his piano studies. He
studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama. He has sung with the ensembles Europa Galante, Al
Ayre Español, La Colombina, Early Opera Company, Orphenica Lyra and the
symphony orchestras of Catalunya, Euskadi, Cordoba, Santiago, Palma, Galicia,
Murcia, Granada and Seville.
He started his
operatic career as a cover in Händel’s Rodelinda for Glyndebourne Opera
Festival and Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Monteverdi’s Orfeo for
Birmingham Opera. He also sung Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Vivaldi’s Tito
Manlio, Ercole sul Termodonte and Bajazet, Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di
Poppea, (Hamburg Staadsoper), Scarlatti Carlo, Re d’Allemagna (Teatro
Massimo in Palermo), Cavalli’s La Didone, Mussorgky’s Boris Godunov,
Handel’s Agrippina, Giulio Cesare and Amadigi and the main roles in
Mazzocchi’s La Catena d’Adone (for Innsbruck and Antwerp Early Music
Festivals), Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Òpera de Sabadell), and in Santos
L’adéu de Lucrècia for the Teatre Lliure opening season in Barcelona.
He made his
debut in Milan’s Teatro alla Scala with Corghi’s Tat’jana and in Barcelona’s
Gran Teatre del Liceu with Handel’s Giulio Cesare. As a concert artist he
has also sung Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with London Baroque and Emma Kirkby,
Bruckner’s Requiem, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Christmas Oratorio, B minor
Mass and St. Matheus Passion, Handel’s Messiah and La resurrezione, Orff
Carmina Burana and the premiere of Guarneri’s Passione secondo Matteo with
La Scala Chorus and Orchestra.
Next
engagements include Händel’s Belshazzar (in Halle and Wien Musikverein) and
main roles in Radamisto and Tolomeo (in Los Àngeles and Bilbao) and
Cavalli’s La Didone (for Teatro alla Scala) and Monteverdi’s Incoronazione
di Poppea (in Barcelona).
He has won
piano, composition and singing prizes (Countertenor prize 1997 in Viñas
International Singing Competition).
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