Performance Year: 2020
Ganador del Operalia Competition del 2014, el tenor guatemalteco Mario Chang ha sido elogiado por ser un “tenor de bel canto nato”, según Anthony Tommasini del New York Times. Un aspecto destacado de la temporada más reciente de Chang incluye su interpretación del papel de Nemorino en L’Elisir d’Amore en la Metropolitan Opera.
Chang fue miembro del Lindemann Young Artist Development Program (El programa Lindemann del desarrollo de jóvenes artistas) de la Metropolitan Opera y del Advanced Diploma in Opera Studies Program (El programa del diploma avanzado en estudios de ópera) en The Juilliard School. Chang y su esposa, la soprano María José Morales, co-fundaron ‘Querido Arte: Compañía de Ópera de Guatemala,’ una compañía de ópera joven y fresca cuyo objetivo es establecer a Guatemala como un punto de referencia para la ópera en América Latina y en todo el mundo.
Performance Year: 2020, 2024
Winner of the 2014 Operalia Competition, Guatemalan tenor Mario Chang has been praised as a “born bel canto tenor” by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times.
Operatic highlights from Mr. Chang’s previous seasons include Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Metropolitan Opera, Alfredo in La traviata with both Washington National Opera and Atlanta Opera, a return to Santa Fe Opera to reprise the role of Rodolfo in a new production of La bohème, and Lenski in Yevgeny Onegin, Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and Rodolfo in La bohème all with Oper Frankfurt. Notable debuts from Mr. Chang’s previous seasons include his Los Angeles Opera debut as Rodolfo in La bohème conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Forth Squire in a new production of Parsifal, his Santa Fe Opera debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor conducted by Corrado Rovaris, and his North Carolina Opera and role debut as Alfredo in La Traviata.
Mr. Chang was a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera and the Advanced Diploma in Opera Studies program at the Juilliard School. Mr. Chang and his wife, soprano Maria José Morales, co-founded Querido Arte: Compañía de Ópera de Guatemala – a young, fresh opera company whose goal is to make Guatemala a benchmark for opera in Latin America and throughout the world. Since the company was established, Ópera de Guatemala has produced fully-staged productions of Rigoletto, La bohème, and L’Elisir d’Amore.
