LUIS LÓPEZ NAVARRO

The Málaga-born bass Luis López Navarro has established a distinguished operatic career after graduating with top honours in Singing from the Málaga Conservatory under Alicia Molina. He also studied with Francisco Heredia, Iñaki Fresán, Carlos Álvarez, Carlos Chausson and Charles dos Santos, and was introduced to Baroque music by Dr Lynne Kurzeknabe. In 2014 he was awarded a prize at Marbella Crea’s Young Performers Exhibition.

He has appeared as a soloist at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Palau de les Arts, Teatro Campoamor, Teatro de la Maestranza, Teatro Villamarta, Gran Teatro de Córdoba, Teatro Colón in A Coruña, Teatre Principal de Maó, among many others. His oratorio repertoire includes Fauré’s and Mozart’s Requiems, Gounod’s Messe solennelle and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria. His operatic roles include Oroveso (Norma), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Angelotti (Tosca) and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro). He is also an active recitalist, having performed Schubert’s Winterreise, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Riccardo Frizza, Evelino Pidò, Michele Mariotti, Pedro Halffter and Alain Guingal.

EN ABAO BILBAO OPERA

• Adriana Lecouvreur