Age: 32
Ricardo Garcia is a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Darmstadt where his roles include Andres in Wozzeck, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, the Steuermann in Tristan und Isolde, Oronte in Alcina, Alfredo in La traviata, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, and Cassio in Otello. This season, he also performs Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Florida Grand Opera and joins the New World Symphony as the Father in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.
Garcia performed Fabrizio Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza and Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with Central City Opera, a role he repeated for Boston Lyric Opera. Ricardo Garcia has also performed at Music Academy of the West and with Tulsa Opera, and was a Butler Studio Artist of Houston Grand Opera, a Resident Artist of Portland Opera, an Apprentice Artist at Santa Fe Opera, and a Studio Artist at Wolf Trap Opera. He earned his Master of Music Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Principal Teachers
- Stephen King
- Cesar Ulloa
Major Competitions
- 1st prize, George and Nora London Foundation Competition, 2023
- District Winner, Met Laffont Competition, 2020
- 1st prize, John Alexander National Vocal Competition, 2020
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
GIACOMO PUCCINI Parigi è la città del desideri
(La Rondine)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis
(Eugène Onéguine)
DANIEL CATÁN Comprendo
(Il postino)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
RICHARD STRAUSS Heimliche Aufforderung
(Vier Lieder, op. 27)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Silent Noon
(The House of Life)
ROGER QUILTER Come Away, Death · O Mistress Mine
(Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 6)
GABRIEL FAURÉ Après un rêve
(Trois mélodies, op. 7)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
JOAQUÍN TURINA Nunca olvida · Cantares · Los dos miedos · Las locas por amor
(Poema en forma de canciones, op. 19)
FRANZ SCHUBERT Die Wetterfahne · Gefrorne Tränen · Der stürmische Morgen · Täuschung · Der Leiermann
(Winterreise, D911)
SEMIFINAL
GIACOMO PUCCINI Non piangere Liù
(Turandot)
JACQUES OFFENBACH Il était une fois à la cour d’Eisenach!
(Les contes d’Hoffmann)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles
(Magnificat, BWV 243)
FINAL
GIACOMO PUCCINI Addio fiorito asil
(Madama Butterfly)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Cunegonde, it is true?
(Candide)
GIUSEPPE VERDI Dio! mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali
(Otello)
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