Tenor

Arthur Espiritu

Biography

The most recent and future projects of American tenor Arthur Espiritu include Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Oper Leipzig) and Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata (Theater Basel). Other recent engagements include Elvino in Bellini’s La sonnambula, Leicester in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich), Alfrdeo in La traviata (Hannover State Opera), Cassio in Verdi’s Otello (Oper Frankfurt), Gualtiero in Bellini’s Il pirata and the title role in Gounod’s Faust (Theater St Gallen), Rodolfo in La bohème (Israeli Opera), Rodolfo in La bohème and Shepherd in Szymanowski’s King Roger (Sydney Opera House), Duca in Verdi’s Rigoletto (St. Margarethen Summer Festival) and concerts as a soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. In past seasons he sang Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Oper Frankfurt), Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz), Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Theater Basel), Duca in Rigoletto and Alfredo in La traviata (Oper Klosterneuburg), and Rodolfo in La bohème (Theater Magdeburg), Fernando in Donizetti’s La favorita (Theater St Gallen Summer Festival Opera), Ernest in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Oper Leipzig), Lamplighter in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (Baden-Baden Festival) and Ferrando in Michael Hampe’s staging of Così fan tutte (La Scala, Milan). He has also sung with Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Piccolo Teatro, Milan, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Marlboro Music Festival, Louisiana Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera of Versailles, Brucknerhaus Linz, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore and Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall.

May 2022