BIOGRAPHY

Within the last 5 years lyric-tenor Xavier Moreno has sung the main leading roles of his repertoire and received critical acclaim at renowned international opera houses. Born in Barcelona, he studied voice, piano and choral conducting at the "Conservatori Superior del Liceu" and finished with highest distinction.
Starting his career, he went to the Mannheim National Theatre and established there between 2003 and 2008 a remarkable repertoire. Among his biggest successes there have been Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Werther (Werther), Alfredo (La Traviata) or Duca (Rigoletto).
Furthermore Xavier Moreno was invited as guest to perform at such venues like Opera National de Paris (Bastille), Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Hungarian Statel Opera (Budapest), Tel Aviv Perfoming Arts Center, Staatstheater Hannover, Latvian National Opera (Riga), Seoul Opera House, Theatre Dortmund, Opera de Rouen and Opéra de Rennes, a.o.
Future projects include his debut as “Don Carlo” in Verdi’s Opera and as “Pinkerton” in Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”, in june and september 2011. Also a concert tour of Rossini's "Petite Messe Solenelle" in Israel with the Israel Symphony Orchestra in July'11 and his debut at the “Opéra de Limoges”, in November 2011, as Nemorino in Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”.
His concert repertoire comprises works such as Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s “Christus am Oelberge” and 9th Symphony, as well as Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Requiem. These works he performed with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Bochumer Symphoniker, and many others.
Among the conductors with whom he has worked there has been Adam Fischer, James Conlon, Hartmut Haenchen, Dan Ettinger, Frédéric Chaslin, György Ráth, and Cornelius Meister.


Apr’2011

Within the last 5 years lyric-tenor Xavier Moreno has sung the main leading roles of his repertoire and received critical acclaim at renowned international opera houses. Born in Barcelona, he studied voice, piano and choral conducting at the "Conservatori Superior del Liceu" and finished with highest distinction. Further studies led him to Prof. Ferran Gimeno.

After initial experiences in the ensemble of the Theatre Trier, he went on to the Mannheim National Theatre and established there between 2003 and 2008 a remarkable repertoire. Among his biggest successes there have been Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Werther (Werther), Alfredo (La Traviata), Lord Percy (Anna Bolena), Fernando (La Favorita), Duca (Rigoletto), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and Alfred (Die Fledermaus).

Furthermore Xavier Moreno was invited as guest to perform these roles at such venues like the Hungarian State Opera (Budapest), Seoul Opera House, Tel Aviv Perfoming Arts Center, Staatstheater Hannover, Latvian National Opera (Riga), Theatre Dortmund, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Wuppertaler Bühne, Theatre Halle, Theatre Mainz and the Theatre Heidelberg.

in 2009 made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (January) and at the ABAO - Opera Bilbao (March) as Maese Pedro in Manuel de Fallas El Retablo de Maese Pedro; at the Ópera de Rennes (june) as Don Ottavio in Mozarts D.Giovanni under Antony Hermus, at the Ópera National de Paris (Bastille), in September, as Andres in A.Berg’s Wozzeck, as well as at the Latvian National Opera (November) as Werther in Massenet's Opera.

Future projects include his debut as “Don Carlo” in Verdi’s Opera and as “Pinkerton” in Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”, in june and september 2011. Also a concert tour of Rossini's "Petite Messe Solenelle" in Israel with the Israel Symphony Orchestra in July'11 and his debut at the “Opéra de Limoges”, in November 2011, as Nemorino in Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”.

His concert repertoire comprises works such as Mozarts and Verdis Requiem, Haydns Creation, Beethovens Christus am Oelberge and 9th Symphony, Puccinis Messa di Gloria, as well as Dvoraks Stabat Mater and Requiem. These works he performed with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona, the Symphonic Orchestra Haifa, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, the Camerata Orchestra Jerusalem, the Northern-Hungarian Symphony orchestra, and many others.

As regular guest he appears at many festivals, among them in 2004 at the Haydn-Festspiele in Eisenstadt as Nencio in Haydns L'Infedelt Delusa, 2005 at the Ruhr Triennale as Schubert in Hans Neuenfels production "Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee" (co-production with the Komische Oper Berlin, with performances there in 2006), and 2007 as Nemorino at the Wroclaw Opera Festival in Poland in Michal Znanieckis production of l'Elisir dAmore.

Among the conductors with whom he has worked there has been Adam Fischer, James Conlon, Hartmut Haenchen, Frédéric Chaslin, György Ráth, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Catherine Rückwardt, Josep Caballé Domenech, Noam Zur and Cornelius Meister.

Apr’11