El tenor Mario Chang es triple ganador de las competencias de ópera: Francisco Viñas del Liceu de Barcelona y Operalia de Plácido Domingo, entre otros premios y reconocimientos. Ha cantado en grandes escenarios como el Metropolitan Opera de Nueva York, la ópera de Frankfurt, de Los Ángeles, Atlanta, Washington, Oslo en Noruega etc. -Andrea Jumique
Read MoreThe way I approach the role is as if I’m telling the story. At the beginning you have to play a dreamer and show his love, his excitement, his impatience. This character has to change in the second act, in one scene. When you change, you have to feel hate in an instant. - Mario Chang
Read MoreThe runaway surprise was Mario Chang, whose last-minute substitution saved the NSO’s Rosenkavalier in 2014, the same year that the Guatemalan tenor won the Operalia competition. With a heroic fortitude in the voice and solid confidence in the role, his Alfredo inspired sympathy and admiration. In a pleasing return, baritone Michael Chioldi’s voice has grown and ripened into something quite powerful since his appearance in WNO’s Lucia in 2011. Tall and ramrod straight of spine, he growled and threatened as Germont. - Charles T Downey
Read MoreMario Chang brought a brawny tenor in his cameo as the doomed bridegroom Arturo. - Eric C Simpson
Read MoreMario Chang’s brilliant tenor as the doomed Edgardo. -Eric A Gordon
Read More[Chang’s] high notes had a bright clarity in the tomb scene. - Charles T Downey
Read More[Chang] brought particular passion to his furious outbursts when confronting Lucia’s brother and to his denunciation of Lucia during the wedding scene. - James M Keller
Read More[Chang’s voice] was all lyrical long lines, smoothly connective and sweetly toned.
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