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Baritone

Gustavo Castillo

Barquisimeto

Venezuela

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GUSTAVO CASTILLO - Baritone

Born in Venezuela, he approaches musical studies through “El Sistema” founded by José Antonio Abreu. Between 2010 and 2016 he studied singing at the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar with Idwer Alvarez. 

He holds numerous concerts and participates in various opera productions, especially at the Centro Nacional de Acción Social por la Música (Cnaspm) and the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas. Among his experiences as a soloist, Mozart's Requiem, Anton Faist's Requiem and Gabriel Fauré's are remembered in the Church of St. Marien in Bonn; at the Royal Festival Hall in London Juan Bautista Plaza's Requiem, Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, and Kodaly Zoltan's Short Mass with Coral Nacional Juvenil Simón de Bolívar de Venezuela (CNJSBV); Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Yaracuy's Youth Symphony Orchestra and Francisco de Miranda Youth Symphony Orchestra in Caracas. On multiple occasions he plays the role of the Devil in Antonio Estevez's Cantata Criolla. In the opera field, between 2014 and 2015 he was in the cast of Puccini's La Bohème directed by Gustavo Dudamel at the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas (in the role of Schaunard) and at the Teatro alla Scala (in the role of Un customs officer), Belcore in L 'elixir D'Amore at the Municipal Theater of Caracas, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly again at the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas and is among the interpreters of the Turandot in concert version conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at the Centro Nacional de Acción Social por la Música in Caracas.

In 2016 he was admitted to the Academy of Specialization for Opera Singers of the Teatro alla Scala. He made his debut on the stage of the Teatro alla Scala in 2016 interpreting Dandini in La Cenerentola per i bambini under the direction of Pietro Mianiti and the direction of Ulrich Peter. Also at the Teatro alla Scala, in 2017, it is Peter in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel under the direction of Marc Albrecht and the direction of Sven-Eric Bechtolf, this productionwinsthe2018Abbiatiaward; FigaromakeshisdebutinIlbarbierediSivigliafor children, directed by Pietro Mianiti and directed by Grischa Asagaroff; he plays Thamar in Alì Babà and the 40 thieves directed by Paolo Carignani under the direction of Liliana Cavani and Brutamonte in Schubert's Fierrabras directed by Daniel Harding and directed by Peter Stein. In 2018 he returns to the scene, in Tuscany, in the role of Sharpless in Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini. Also in 2018, Castillo made his debut in Ireland at the Wexford Opera Festival with the role of Foscari in Il Bravo by Saverio Mercadante under the direction of Jonathan Brandani with the direction of Renaud & Doucet, his exceptional participation was awarded with the prize "The aria friend's bursary ",awarded by festival director David Agler; the production, on the other hand, was nominated as “Best Opera Production” for The Irish Times Irish Theater Awards. In 2019 he plays El Diablo in La Cantata Criolla, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; in the same year he recorded "La fanciulla del West" by Puccini with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Transylvania in Cluj-Romania; and made her debut in the role of Dulcamara in the Elixir of Love at the Città Sant'Angelo Festival, in Italy. For the Verdi Festival 2019, he holds a Verdian Recital at the Palazzo Ducale in Parma. At the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari he returns in the role of Peter in Hänsel und Gretel in the same 2018 staging of the Teatro alla Scala. Also in 2019 he won the First Prize at the International Opera Competition "XXVII Edition of the Marco Koliqi Music Studio Award 2019"; the Third Prize, the Audience Prize and the Zarzuela Prize at the VI International Singing Competition "Opera de Tenerife"; the Second Prize to the “Etta e Paolo Limiti Award 2019”. In 2020 he made his debut as Enrico in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera de Oviedo; at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna he plays the role of Sharpless in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly; wins the First Prize in the VI International Review of Young Lyrical Voices promoted by the Associazione Amici della Lirica “Giuditta Pasta” of Saronno. In 2021 he made his debut in the role of Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow by Lehar at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; he returns as Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in a tour organized by Ticino Musica Festival in Italian Switzerland.

His future commitments include his debut as Rodrigo in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, in the original version, at the Konzert Theater Bern; the return to America for concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, in which he will play El Narrador in Alberto Ginastera's La EstanciaOp.8; his debut as Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan.

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