Celso Albelo


Celso Albelo is a Spanish operatic tenor. He has sung leading roles in many opera houses including Teatro alla Scala ; the Royal Opera House, Teatro La Fenice.

Biography

Born in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, he got his firsts singing lessons from Pilar Castro Palazon, he continued at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in his home town with Isabel García Soto and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Tom Krause and Manuel Cid. He later perfected his training with Carlo Bergonzi at the Busseto Academy.
In 2006, he debuted as Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto in Busseto, singing alongside Leo Nucci. From then on he has been invited to perform by La Scala in Milan, the Fenice in Venice, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa, the Comunale Theatre in Bologna, the Verdi Theatre in Salerno, the Lirico in Cagliari, the Terme of Caracalla in Rome, the Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Alfredo Kraus Opera Festival in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, the Campoamor in Oviedo, the La Coruña Opera Festival, the Castell de Peralada International Music Festival, Zurich Opera House, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Baden-Baden Festival, Tokyo Opera House, Montecarlo Opera and Hamburg Opera House. Recently he has sung at the Royal Opera House in London, at Opéra National in Paris, at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin at the Metropolitan opera in Maria Stuada

Prizes

Celso Albelo has been awarded the Opera Actual Prize 2008, the Opera Oscar bestowed by the Arena di Verona Foundation and the Teatro Campoamor National Prize for Opera 2010-2012. He has been awarded the Medalla de Oro de Canarias 2013, the Giuseppe Lugo Award 2013 in Italy, the Premio Codalario in 2014 and the Premio Taburiente in 2017.