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René Barbera
René Barbera

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About René

Tenor René Barbera has quickly established himself as one of today’s most exciting vocal artists. The first-ever recipient of all three top awards of the Operalia Competition in 2011 and winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2008, René has earned critical praise and audience acclaim for his effortless singing, his “old-fashioned warmth” (Opera News), and his expressive musicality.

In the 2024/25 season, René will make major role debuts with Roberto Devereux at Teatro di San Carlo, Arnold Guillaume Tell at New National Theatre Tokyo, and Gennaro Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He will begin the season with a return to Dutch National Opera in the role of Duca di Mantua Rigoletto and makes a debut at Teatro Regio Torino as Nemorino L’elisir d’amore. Other roles in this season include returns to the roles of Arturo I Puritani at Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore at Teatro Massimo Palermo and Duca di Mantua Rigoletto at Los Angeles Opera. On the concert scene he will sing Verdi’s Requiem at Concertgebouw Amsterdam and an Opera for Peace Concert at the Eiffel Tower.

In the 2023/24 season, René performed the roles of Ernesto Don Pasquale and Alfredo La Traviata at Opéra national de Paris, Ricardo Percy Anna Bolena at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Don Ottativo Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Il Conte d’Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona.

René is based in Paris

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Dutch National Opera
Rigoletto (Duca di Mantua) Yi-chen Lin (conductor) Damiano Michieletto (director)
Nov 2024
New National Theatre Tokyo
Guillaume Tell (Arnold) - role debut Ono Kazushi (conductor) Yannis Kokkos (director)
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Tiroler Festspiele Erl
I Puritani (Arturo) Lorenzo Passerini (conductor) Festival debut

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Selected Repertoire

BelliniI puritani (Lord Arturo Talbo)   •   La sonnambula (Elvino)
BerliozLes Troyens (Iopas)
BizetLes pêcheurs de perles (Nadir)
DonizettiAnna Bolena (Riccardo Percy)   •   Don Pasquale (Ernesto)   •   Il paria (Idamore)   •   La fille du régiment (Tonio)   •   L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino)   •   Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo)
MozartCosì fan tutte (Ferrando)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)   •   Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)   •   Idomeneo (title role)   •   La clemenza di Tito (Tito)
PucciniGianni Schicchi (Rinuccio)
RossiniAdelaide di Borgogna (Adelberto)   •   Guillaume Tell (Arnold Melchtal)   •   Il barbiere di Siviglia (Il Conte d’Almaviva)   •   Il turco in Italia (Narciso)   •   La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro)   •   La donna del lago (Rodrigo)   •   La gazza ladra (Giannetto)   •   L'italiana in Algeri (Lindoro)
StraussDer Rosenkavalier (An Italian singer)
VerdiFalstaff (Fenton)   •   Rigoletto (Il Duca di Mantova)   •   La traviata (Alfredo Germont)

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  • Don Giovanni

    Teatro Comunale di Bologna
    May 2024 - Jun 2024

    • René Barbera in stato di grazia che ha portato in scena uno dei migliori Don Ottavio per eleganza di stile e linea vocale. Successo cordiale per tutti i fautori dello spettacolo con più insistenti applausi per il Don Ottavio di René Barbera e la Donna Anna di Valentina Varriale che nonostante l’avesse già cantata la sera prima non si è tirata indietro e ha generosamente salvato la recita." [Translated] "René Barbera in a state of grace who brought to the stage one of the best Don Ottavios for elegance of style and vocal line. Cordial success for all the supporters of the show with more insistent applause for René Barbera's Don Ottavio and Valentina Varriale's Donna Anna who, despite having already sung it the evening before, did not hold back and generously saved the performance .

    • René Barbera se tomó muy en serio su papel de protector de Donna Anna, un tenor que cuenta con una sólida técnica que le permite destellos de calidad. Barbera dió importancia a un personaje favorecido solo por dos hermosas arias." [Tramnslated] "René Barbera took his role as protector of Donna Anna very seriously, a tenor who has a solid technique that allows him flashes of quality. Barbera gave importance to a character favored only by two beautiful arias.

    • Molto buona la prova di Renè Barbera che interpeta un Don Ottavio che è un piacere per le orecchie." [Translated] "Very good performance by Renè Barbera who plays Don Ottavio which is a pleasure for the ears.

    • Molto bene René Barbera (26 maggio). Il suo Don Ottavio eccelle per il gusto, la raffinatezza e allo stesso tempo per il calore. Belle le due arie (l’edizione adottata è il solito mix di Praga e Vienna), soprattutto “Dalla sua pace”; lodevole anche “Il mio tesoro”, pur se sarebbero state desiderabili alcune prese di fiato in meno (anche senza auspicare il mantice inesauribile di un Rockwell Blake)." "Very good René Barbera (26 May). His Don Ottavio excels in taste, refinement and at the same time in warmth. The two arias are beautiful (the edition adopted is the usual mix of Prague and Vienna), especially “Dalla pace di lui”; “My Treasure” is also commendable, although a few fewer breaths would have been desirable (even without hoping for the inexhaustible bellows of a Rockwell Blake).

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