|
The Spanish counter-tenor, Alberto Miguélez Rouco, studied singing with tenor Pablo Carballido del Camino and Piano with Cristina López at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de A Coruña (2002-2012). In 2012 he began his singing studies at the Musik Akademie Basel (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), where he studied with the mezzo-soprano Rosa Domínguez, finishing his Master Degrees in 2017 and 2019. He also studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Francesco Corti, Giorgio Paronuzzi and Jesper Christensen.
In opera, Alberto Miguélez Rouco has recently sung Georg Philipp Telemann’s Orpheus (Ascalax) with René Jacobs, George Frideric Handel’s Partenope (Armindo) conducted by William Christie (Paris Philharmonie, Valencia, La Coruña, Bucharest, Budapest, Luzern); Ottone (Adelberto) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen; Giovanni Legrenzi’s La divisione del mondo (La Discordia) at Strasbourg, Nancy and Versailles conducted by Christophe Rousset; Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Umana fragilità and Pisandro) at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza or Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress and Spirit), conducted by Paul Agnew.
As a soloist in oratorio Alberto Miguélez Rouco has sung J.S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion BWV 245 (René Jacobs and Nederlandse Bachvereniging), G.F. Handel’s Messiah, Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne, and Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Disinganno) under the direction of Paul Agnew (Trondheim Baroque Festival), Pasquini’s Il San Vito (at Boston Early Music Festival), Michael Haydn’s Requiem in c-moll, Johann Adolf Hasse’s Miserere in c-moll, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, W.A. Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Sparrow Mass and Trinitas Mass, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, Magnificat and Beatus Vir, Charpentier’s Te Deum and Traetta’s Stabat Mater.
Alberto Miguélez Rouco regulary attends to master-classes with renowned singers and teachers like Margreet Honig, Sara Mingardo, Mariella Devia, Philippe Jaroussky, Valerie Guillorit, Christine Schäfer, Alessandro De Marchi, Sophie Daneman and Maria Cristina Kiehr, and has worked with conductors like René Jacobs, William Christie, Paul Agnew, Christophe Rousset, Gabriel Garrido, Lionel Sow or Josep Pons. He has performed with orquestras such as Les Arts Florissants, Le Concert des Nations, Hespèrion XXI, Trondheim Barokk, Les Talens Lyriques, Café Zimmermann, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Ensemble Elyma, Musica Fiorita, Ensemble Semura Sonora and Accademia Barocca Lucernensis. Since 2020 he is a member of Philippe Jaroussky’s voice Academy.
Alberto Miguélez Rouco founded in 2018 his own ensemble Los Elementos, and in September 2019 he recorded with his José de Nebra’s baroque zarzuela Vendado es Amor, no es ciego, for the discographic label Glossa. In 2020 he recorded his first solo album, "Cantadas", with music by José de Nebra and Francesco Corselli, and in 2021 they recorded Nebra’s Donde ay violencia, no ay culpa. |
