Luis Gomes

Tenor

Website: www.gomestenor.com

Biography

Winner of both the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela and the Prize of the Audience at the Operalia Competition 2018, Luis Gomes was born in Portugal and first studied at the Escola de Música do Conservatório and the Escola superior de Música de Lisboa. He then transferred to the UK for further studies graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and going on to the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden. He is a Samling Artist and a Solti Academia Scholar. Opera highlights include Rodolfo La Boheme, Azaël L’enfant prodigue for Scottish Opera, Beppe I Pagliacci, Edmondo and Lamplighter Manon Lescaut, Fenton Falstaff and Chevalier de la Force Les dialogues des Carmélites for ROH Covent Garden, Osburgo La Straniera at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Nemorino L’Elisir D’Amore for Teatro Verdi Trieste, Tebaldo I Capuleti e I Montecchi for Buxton Festival and Rodolfo La Boheme for the Verbier Festival Academy. He has also appeared at ROH Covent Garden as Gastone La Traviata, Amante Il Tritico, 4th Esquire Parsifal, Pong Turandot, Borsa Rigoletto and Alabazar Il Turco in Italia. Concerts include Wigmore Hall Rosenblatt recitals, the last alongside Ekaterina Siurina, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the De Doelen Rotterdam and in Rome under Antonio Pappano and he was recently featured on the recording entitled Decades with Malcolm Martineau. He returned to Lisbon for Rinnuccio Gianni Schicchi at the Centro Cultural de Belém and for his debut in the role of Alfredo La Traviata at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos. He also repeated the role of Alfredo La Traviata for the 2018 Glyndebourne Tour and made his role debut as Faust at Valladolid. Recent engagements include Nemorino L’Elisir d’Amore for Den Norske Opera, Edoardo Un Giorno di Regno for Chelsea Opera Group, Rodolfo La Boheme for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Nadir Les Pêcheurs de Perles for Ópera de Oviedo and Fenton Falstaff for Grange Park Opera. He appeared as Alfredo La Traviata for both Nevill Holt Opera and Národní Divadlo Prague. He sang Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi in a film for Grange Park Opera and was tenor soloist in the Europe Day 2021 Concert streamed by the Portuguese Embassy in London. Most recently he made his debut for Welsh National Opera as Rodolfo La Boheme, his debut as Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor for the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and appeared in a staged production of the Verdi Messa da Requiem for Finnish National Opera.

Luís Gomes gave us a similarly superbly sung Edgardo.  His tenor abounds in sunny, Italianate tone, with an impeccable legato and a ringing top.  He was also an energizing stage presence, his ‘son tue cifre’ in the wedding scene was filled with palpable anger and raised the emotional temperature of the scene exponentially.  He sang his big final scene with tireless passion, the ever-soaring line dispatched with warmth and generosity, filling the text with meaning.  A notable assumption from this naturally gifted singer.
Operatraveller.com – 23^rd March 2023

Luis Gomes soups it up as a sparky Rinuccio in a leather jacket, his ardent lyrical voice perfect for the role.
Alexandra Wilson – Opera Magazine April 2022

Roles performed

Videos

Concerts include

Beethoven MASS IN C, SYMPHONY No. 9; Dvořák: STABAT MATER; Gounod: MESSE SOLENNELLE EN L’HONNEUR DE SAINTE-CÉCILE; NELSON MASS; Mozart: REQUIEM, GROSSE MESSE IN C-MOLL; Puccini MESSA DI GLORIA; Rossini: PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE, STABAT MATER; Schubert: INDENDE VOCI, MASS NO. 6 IN E FLAT MAJOR; Verdi MESSA DA REQUIEM;  EUROPE DAY 2021 CONCERT

Conductors he has collaborated with

Yves Abel; Giancarlo Andretta; Jonathan Bloxham; Paul Brough; Justin Doyle; Gianluigi Gelmetti; Ben Glassburg; Antoine Glatard; Alexander Joel; Hannu Lintu; Nicola Luisotti; Rory Macdonald; Wiecher Mandemaker; Gianluca Marcianò; Zbyněk Müller; John Naylor; Grzegorz Nowak; Daniel Oren; Antonio Pappano; José Miguel Pérez-Sierra; Itzhak Perlman; Evelino Pidò; Antonio Pirolli; Pietr Popelka; Francesco Quattrocchi; Simon Rattle; Pietro Rizzi; Andrea Sanguineti; Michael Schønwandt; Dima Slobodeniouk; Ryuichiro Sonoda; Jordan de Souza; Pinchas Steinberg; Stuart Stratford; Rastislav Stur; Omer Meir Wellber.

Directors he has collaborated with

Allex Aguilera; Grischa Asagaroff; Mariano Bauduin; Tim Carroll; Robert Carsen; Patrice Caurier; Renaud Doucet; Richard Eyre; Richard Jones; Moshe Leiser; David McVicar; Stephen Medcalf; Damiano Michieletto; Guy Montavon; Yoshi Oida; Pedro Ribeiro; Fabio Sparvoli; Philipp Westerbarkei.

Recordings

Decades: A Century of Song Vol.2 1820 – 1830 (Vivat)
The Discovery Recitals: Jette Parker Young Artists Rarely performed songs (Opus Arte)
Verdi Messa da Requiem – Richard Blackford’s Orchestration for 2 pianos, organ and percussion (Nimbus Records)

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