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Tenor

Ian Castro

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Olivier Lallouette
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Ekaterina Yazykova
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Biography Highlights

 
 

Current & recent seasons

Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Roméo Roméo et Juliette, Belmonte Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Graf Elemer Arabella, Lensky Eugene Onegin, Bresilien/Frick La Vie Parisienne for Bühnen Bern. Le Remendado Carmen, Prince Nikola Operetta Land production set on the music of Johann Strauss Jr, Jacques Offenbach, Arthur Sullivan and others, Spirit & Sailor Dido and Aeneas, Gastone La Traviata, Signor Hervey Anna Bolena all for Dutch National Opera as member of Dutch National Opera Studio.

 
 

Other engagements

Ferrando Cosí fan tutte in Light Opera of New Jersey, the Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia for Montclair State University, Nermorino L’elisir d’amore, John Adams in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic and MetLiveArts for Juilliard School; Oronte Alcina for Music Academy International; concert series with selected scenes from Verdi’s Rigoletto, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, and Massenet’s Werther with Mise-en-Scène Studio; Mendelssohn’s Elias at Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Vocal Academy, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam.

 
 

Awards

Graduate of The Juilliard School 2021, awarded by the New York Opera foundation’s 2021 Kinesis Scholarship to continue the training at the Dutch National Opera.
 

 
 

Portraits

Ian Castro, Tenor
© Patricia Westley

Nimorino, May 2023

Nimorino, May 2023

Gounod: Air de Roméo (Romeo and Juliette)

Gounod: Air de Roméo (Romeo and Juliette)

 

Reviews & Press

 
 

Gounod - Roméo et Juliette - Roméo

Ian Matthew Castro in der Rolle des Roméo sang die Phrasen seiner grossen Arie «Ah! lève toi soleil!» mit einer wunderschön lyrischen Geschmeidigkeit, wobei ihm die Spitzentöne in der «Voix mixte» höhensicher gelangen, sodass er sich auf dem letzten hohen B sogar erlaubte, den Ton piano anzusetzen, um ihn dann anschwellen zu lassen. Grosse Klasse. (Ian Matthew Castro in the role of Roméo, somewhat reminiscent of Anastasios Vrenios in the coloring of his voice, sang the phrases of his great aria “Ah!  lève toi soleil!”  with a beautifully lyrical suppleness, whereby he reached the top notes in the “Voix mixte” with confidence, so that on the last high B he even allowed himself to start the note piano and then let it swell.  Great class.)  
 

- Christian Jaeger , Opera Gazet

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Mozart - Die Zauberflöte - Tamino

Ian Matthew Castro, neu im Ensemble der Oper Bühnen Bern, präsentiert als Tamino ein hellen, kräftigen Tenor mit reichlich Schmelz, leichtem Metall und dem gewissen Etwas in der Stimme. 

(Ian Matthew Castro, new to the Bern Theater ensemble, presents as Tamino a bright, powerful tenor with plenty of mellowness, light metal and that certain something in his voice.)

 

- Jan Krobot , onlinemerker.com

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