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The Austrian-Brazilian baritone, Miguelangelo Cavalcanti, studied opera singing between 1976-1980 at the Conservatório Pernambucano de Música with A. Correi and between 1980-1984 at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco with C. Mattosová. In addition to classical opera singing, he also devoted himself for some time to the study of sacred music, which he completed with M.L. Sundersová. Already between 1983 and 1985, he won several first awards at Brazilian singing competitions, such as the Conorso Nacional Villa-Lobos award and St Maria Rio Grande du Sul. He continued his singing studies even after 1988. He studied, for example, at the Bach Academy in Stuttgart, in Karlsruhe, at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in Paris and Lisbon. His teachers included such names as Alfredo Kraus, Gottfried Hornik, Elsa Saque and Amador Cortez Medina. In addition to Brazilian awards, he also won some world awards. For example, an award in Spain at the Alfredo Kraus competition, in Austria at the Ferruccio Tagliavini competition, or in Italy at the Concorso Internazionale Viotti-Valsesia.
Miguelangelo Cavalcanti launched his career at the Teatro Nacional de Sâo Carlos in Lisbon, where he debuted in the role of Mago Cristiano in the opera Rinaldo singing with Teresa Berganza. At the same theatre he sang in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Guillaume Tell, in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Puccini’s La bohème and Turandot, in Verdi’s Il trovatore and more. He co-operated with directors Peter Konwitschny, Piere Luigi Pizzi, Paolo Trevisi, Martin Kusej and Christoph Loy. From 1995 to 2001, he was a soloist of the Oper Graz, where he performed major roles in a number of operas (W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro; R. Wagner's Tannhäuser, Das Rheingold; Falstaff, I pagliacci and Lucia di Lammermoor). He has been a regular guest at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, performed at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and at opera houses in Leipzig, Hamburg, Cologne and Basel. In 2000, he made his debut at the State Opera as Count Luna in Verdi's Il trovatore. He debuted at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona as Jochanaan in Strauss’ Salome in 2000. From 2004 to 2011, he was a soloist of the State Opera Prague, where he performed a number of key roles of the baritone repertoire, including Schaunard (Leoncavallo’s La bohème), Escamillo (G. Bizet: Carmen), Verdi's Rigoletto, Nabucco, Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Monforte (I vespri siciliani), Count Luna (Il trovatore), Rodrigo de Posa (Don Carlo) and Amonasro (Aida), Donizetti's Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Puccini's Scarpia (Tosca), Wolfram (Wagner: Tannhäuser) and Jochanaan (R. Strauss: Salome). He has been a guest at the Bregenzer and Salzburger Festspiele, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Attersee Festival in Austria, the Béla Bartók Festival in Hungary and the Carinthischer Sommer, W.A. Mozart's Cosí fan tutte in Singapore and Turandot in Macao. In Korea (Seoul) was twice Escamillo (Carmen) and High Priest of Dragon (Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila). Since January 2012, he has been a soloist of the Czech National Theatre (Nárdoni Divaldo). He appeared in performances of the National Theatre Season 2014-2015 Aida, Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca, Rigoletto, Tanhauser, Turandot, Don Carlos, Salomé, Nabucco /début in November 2015.
Apart from opera repertoire, Miguelangelo Cavalcanti has devoted a special attention to songs (Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Ravel), cantatas, oratorios and masses (J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Haydn). As a concert singer, he and remains faithful to Brazilian music (Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Gomes, César Guerra-Peixe, Alberto Nepomuceno). In 2015, he gave master-classes in Belém, Brazil. |
