Gaston Rivero

INTRODUCTION

Hailed as a “remarkable Spinto tenor” Gaston Rivero is worldwide recognized for his dynamic stage presence, dark timbre and wide range of flexibility.

RECENT AND FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS

Gaston Rivero’s engagements for the 2026/27 season include Marcello/La bohème (by Leoncavallo) at Oper Graz, a re-invite as Radamés/Aida and Walter / Corrado Wallenrod in I Lituani at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Turiddu/Cavalleria Rusticana at Théâtre de La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Faust/Mefistofele (by Boito) at the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest, and Radamés/Aida at Palm Beach Opera, a.o.

Recent engagements include, a.o: Calaf/Turandot, the title role in Otello and Cavaradossi/Tosca at Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari; the title roles in Verdi’s Don Carlo & Otello and Canio/I Pagliacci at Aalto Musiktheater Essen; Radamés/Aida at the Czech National Opera House, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Teatro Regio di Torino, and the Latvian National Opera; Manrico/Il Trovatore, Ismaele/Nabucco, Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly, Dick Johnson/La Fanciulla del West, Rodolfo/La Boheme, Don José/Carmen, Mario Cavaradossi/Tosca, the title role in Don Carlo, and a performance in the Opernball at Oper Leipzig; the title role in Otello at Staatstheater Darmstadt; Riccardo/Un ballo in maschera at Oper Köln; Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut and Dick Johnson/La fanciulla del West at the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest; Radamés/Aida, the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo, Calaf/Turandot, and Walter/Corrado Wallenrod in I Lituani at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre; Manrico/Il Trovatore in Jesi, Novara, Rovigo and Treviso; Don José/Carmen, the title role in Otello and Marcello/La Bohème (by Leoncavallo, concertante) at Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania; Calaf/Turandot at Teatro Verdi di Padova and the Latvian National Opera; the title role of Don Carlo at the Hungarian State Opera and the Latvian National Opera; Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly (in concert) with the Auckland Philharmonia; a concert with the Arena di Verona in Zagreb, Croatia; as well as concerts in Miami, Dresden, and Budapest.

BIOGRAPHY

Gaston Rivero earned and has been honored with an array of awards.

During the 2002-2003 season, he joined the ensemble of Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La bohème on Broadway in New York City.

Company credits includes the roles of Otello, Don Carlo, Radames in Aida, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Calaf in Turandot, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West at Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra National de Paris Bastille, Arena di Verona, Opernhaus Zürich, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie Bruxelles, The Royal Opera House Muscat, Opera de Monte Carlo, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio Torino, Oper Leipzig, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Oper Köln, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, New National Theater Tokyo, Grand Theatre Warsaw, Opéra national du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, a.o.

Mr. Rivero is also frequently a guest artist on domestic and international concert stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest, the Grande Auditório da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the National Music Auditorium, Madrid, the Karlowicz Philharmonic, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Jerusalem Theater, and the Heichal HaTarbut in Tel Aviv with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.

Gaston Rivero is also known for his participation as Manrico in the DVD and Blu Ray of Il trovatore at Staatsoper Berlin, released by the Deutsche Grammophon, performing alongside Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, and Marina Prudenskaya.