Ernesto Grisales

The Colombian tenor Ernesto Grisales graduated from the Madrid Conservatoire. He has won a number of awards at various prestigious international contests (Verviers in Belgium, Marseilles, Toulouse, the Maria del Monaco, Alfred Krause, and Plácido Domingo contests, and other). His most important parts include that of Radames (Arena di Verona with Daniela Dessi, Toronto, a tour of Germany in the summer of 2004), then Kalaf (the Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, Sao Paolo with Eva Marton, Toulon), Pinkerton in Madamme Butterfly (State Opera Berlin), Cavaradossi, Turiddu, Canio, Don José (Athens, Japan), De Grieux in Manon Lescaut (Venice), Pollione in Norma (Marseille). In the 2004/2005 season, he performs as a guest in the Bonn Opera (Don Alvaro in La forza del destino), he will sing Turiddu and Canio in Toronto and Don José at a tour of Japan in June and July 2005.