Edgar Bastidas
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Edgar Bastidas is a Venezuela
Venezuela
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n tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

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He studied in the musical institute Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...

 in Dnipropetrovs'k in Ukraine
Ukraine
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, with the teacher María E. Markina. He studied from 1991 to 1995 in the Kiev State Conservatory "Piotr I. Tchaikovsky" in Ukraine, with the Russian Professor Vladimir I. Timohin.
He began his career in the Opera Studio of the same Conservatory, as a soloist, interpreting Lensky in the opera Eugene Onegin, Alfredo in La Traviata, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...

, and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto.

He has worked with many distinguished conductors including Lev Gorvatenko, Ruslan Doroyivsky, Roman Koffman, Boris Velat, Jan Drietomsky, and Pablo Castellanos.
He has carried out presentations in European theaters interpreting leading roles such as Almaviva, Nemorino, Duca di Mantova, Gringoire and Alfredo.
Bastidas's repertoire encompasses lieder, Spanish Songs, Russian songs, Latin American songs, contemporary, Italian and Neapolitan songs.

Repertoire

  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - (Conte Almaviva)
  • Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore - (Nemorino)
  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - (Edgardo)
  • Verdi: La Traviata - (Alfredo)
  • Verdi: Rigoletto - (Duque de Mantua)
  • Verdi: Macbeth - (Macduff)
  • Massenet: Werther - (Werther)
  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Oneguin - (Lensky)
  • Rachmaninov: Aleko - (Young Gypsy)
  • Mascagni: Cavallería Rusticana - (Turiddu )
  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Gounod: Fausto - (Fausto)

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