ANDRÉ BALEIRO
baritone
RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Miller in Verdi's Luisa Miller, at the Luzerner Theater;
- Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, at Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos de Lisboa and Theater Trier;
- Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, at Theater Trier and Centro Cultural de Belém;
- Eisenstein in J. Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, Ned Keene in Britten's Peter Grimes, at the Theater Trier;
- Valentin in Gounod's Faust, at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and Opera Wroclawska;
- The title role in Philip Glass' Orphée, at the Centro Cultural de Belém;
- Solo parts in Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and J. S. Bach's Johannes-Passion, at the Fondation Gulbenkian of Lisbon;
- The title role in Mendelssohn's Ellias, at the Mosel Musikfestival.
BIOGRAPHY
Portuguese baritone André Baleiro began his musical training at the age of 10, at the Gregorian Institute in Lisbon, where he devoted himself intensively to choral music. There he began his vocal training with Elsa Cortez, in 2004. He studied choral conducting and music education at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. André Baleiro studied singing with Siegfried Lorenz, Axel Bauni and Eric Schneider, at the Berlin University of the Arts. Between
2012 and 2015, he was a scholarship holder of the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon. In 2013, he also received a scholarship from the Walter & Charlotte Hammel Foundation Hanover.
In 2014, he sang a title role at the Munich Chamber Opera, where he also performed Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, in 2016. His operatic roles include Don Parmenione in Rossini's L’Occasione fa il Ladro, Conte Belfiore in Sarti's Fra due Litiganti il Terzo Gode, the Capitaine in Martinů's Les Trois Souhaits, the Caporale in Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze and Pantalone in Busoni's Turandot. Baleiro has already sung in concerts in France,
Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, also at the Lisbon Opera House Summer Festival and at the La Folle Journée Festival in Nantes. He also regularly devotes himself to song singing with a romantic and contemporary repertoire. Baleiro attributes his inclination to the German art song to his first singing teacher, who developed a close connection to the German art song because of studying at the German school in Portugal.
In the 2021-2022 season, he sang the title role in Philip Glass' Orphée, at the Centro Cultural de Belém, and will sing the role of Valentin in Gounod's Faust and the baritone solos inFauré's Requiem and Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, at the Teatro São Carlos de Lisboa.
During the 2022-23 season, Baleiro was a member of the ensemble of Theater Trier, where he performed roles such as Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Ned Keen in Britten's Peter Grimes.
In the 2023-24 season, André Baleiro sang Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, at Teatro Nacional São Carlos of Lisbon, Teatro Regio di Parma and Theater Trier; Eisenstein in J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus, also in Trier; J. Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, at the Palau de la Musica de Valencia; solo part in J. S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion, at the Fondation Gulbenkian of Lisbon; and the solo part in A. Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warshaw, at the Casa da Música of Porto, among others.
Among his next commitments, Baleiro will sing the role of Miller in Verdi’s Luisa Miller, at the Luzerner Theater; solo part in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, at the Fondation Gulbenkian of Lisbon; and the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, at the Mosel Musikfestival.