Octavio Arévalo

Native of Mexico City, Octavio Arévalo initially took up piano. In 1979, he began to study singing, among other institutions at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan (1984/1985), and at the Musikhochschule in Munich. In 1989, he made his stage debut at Munich’s Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, as Paolino (Cimarosa, Il matrimonio segreto). In 1991, he became soloist at the Luzerner Theater, where he sang among other roles Don Narciso (Rossini, Turco in Italia), Belmonte (Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Tamino (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte), Cassio (Verdi, Otello), Nemorino (Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore), Don Ottavio (Mozart, Don Giovanni), Rodolfo (Puccini, La bohème), and Pinkerton (Puccini, Madama Butterfly). In February 1992, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera (as Nemorino). He has guest appeared at Berlin’s Komische Oper and Deutsche Oper, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Covent Garden in London, la Bastille in Paris, as well as in other opera houses, in Tokyo, San Diego, Mexico City, Marseille, Zurich, Geneva, Madrid, Monte Carlo and others, and at music festivals in Pesaro, Bregenz and Dresden. He was featured as Riccardo (Donizetti, Maria di Rohan), opposite Edita Gruberová in a production at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and as Leicester (Donizetti, Maria Stuarda), again with Edita Gruberová, at Munich’s Herculessaal. His other creations have included Rossini’s Otello, Gounod’s Faust, Massenet’s Werther, Verdi’s Alfredo (La traviata), Don Carlo and Macduff (Macbeth), Puccini’s Cavaradossi (Tosca), and Beethoven’s Florestan (Fidelio).

Octavio Arévalo’s discography comprises among other titles Rossini’s operas Il Signor Bruschino and Semiramide (both Deutsche Grammophon), Manuel de Falla’s La vida breve (Harmonia Mundi), Ernest Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus (ORF), Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan and Maria Stuarda (both with Edita Gruberová; Nightingale), and Donizetti’s Adelia (BMG Ricordi).