Born in Zaragoza (Spain) and currently freelancing between America and Europe, tenor Eduardo Aladrén has started this current season 2012 alternating both principal tenors in "La Traviata" in Theater Nordhausen and in "Madama Butterfly" in Mecklenburgisches Staattheater Schwerin, both in Germany. He will also be back at the Schwerin Castle Summer Festival 2012 in the role of Canio in Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" to be performed in collaboration with internationally well-known RONCALLI Circus.

Last engagements along 2010/11 have taken him to his performances as "Luigi" in Puccini's "Il Tabarro" in Bayreuth Stadthalle, "Alvaro" in Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" in the Schwerin Schlossfestspiele, "Don Jose" in Bizet's "Carmen" in the Festival Sommer 2010 Musik und Theater Saar, "Pinkerton" in Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" in the Stadtteather Aachen and Cavaradossi in Puccini's "Tosca" in the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, all of them in Germany.

He also performed along the season some concerts in the "Kurhaus Wiesbaden" with the prestigious "Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen (Ola Rudnerin)" in the "Stadthalle Heidelberg", with the "Philharmonie Südwestfallen (Volker Christ)", with the “Orchestra Musica Viva (Nicolas Hrudnik)“ in the Grosse Saal der Glocke in Bremen and with the “Symphony of the Americas (J. Brooks-Bruzzese)“ in Miami (USA).

Past performances along 2008/09 include "La Fanciulla del West" in Saint Bart's Festival in the French West Caribbian Islands, the Soloist Tenor in the magnificent Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" with the Bellas Artes Theater Symphony Orchestra in Mexico D.F. and Beethoven's Mass in C Mayor and Puccini's Messa di Gloria with the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra in Florida (Usa).

Last December 08 took him to the Miami's Adrianne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts as solist in a Zarzuela Orchestra Concert under the auspices of the Florida Concert Association as well as the soloist tenor and designer in the show "TUTTO PUCCINI" at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach (FL) last March 09.

Some other remarkable performances took him again in June 09 to the Miami Dade County Auditorium for an Antology of Cuban Zarzuela and to the Auditorium of Zaragoza (Spain) to perform Alfredo in La Traviata and an opera concert series tour in January / February 2010 with the prestigious Symphony of the Americas.

Last July 07, He made his debut in the Miami Dade-County Auditorium where he performed "Count Danilo" together with soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in the production of F. Lehár's "The Merry Widow" and where he returned last April 2008 to perform the principal tenor (Rene) in Lehár's "Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxemburg)".

Last April 2007, He completed his second season as a Resident Artist with the Palm Beach Opera where he performed more than 10 principal roles on the main stage in Aida, Tosca, Magic Flute, Pagliacci, Thaïs, Butterfly, etc...also including the title role in Werther and Nicias in Thaïs within the Palm Beach Opera’s “Opera in One Hour” series and Pinkerton in Palm Beach Opera’s Saturday matinee on the main stage. Cover contracts also included Cavaradossi in Tosca, Nicias in Thaïs and Pinkerton in Butterfly.

Mr. Aladrén was also a Young Artist with Utah Festival Opera 2005, where he stepped in on very short notice to perform the dress rehearsal as Reverend Parris in The Crucible. In 2004 he performed Alfred in Die Fledermaus for Bay View Summer Festival (Michigan) where he also was awarded First Prize in the Adrian Boyer Vocal Competition.

In 2005 Mr. Aladrén was first cast in the role of Rodolpho in the World College Premiere of William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge at Bloomington School of Music (Indiana University) with the composer in attendance.

In the realm of oratorio, Mr. Aladrén sang the tenor solos in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in October 2004 in the Auditorium of Zaragoza (Spain) in its 25th Anniversary Commemoration which was broadcast to Europe, America and Asia through the Spanish International Channel. Later that year he performed the tenor solo in Ariel Ramirez’s Creole Mass at Freemason Hall (Indianapolis).

Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Aladrén performed throughout Spain several leading Zarzuela roles with the Lyric Theater of Zaragoza and some other companies settled in Madrid. His debut at the renowned Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid took place in 2001 with the zarzuela "Pan y Toros" (Barbieri), under the baton of Maestro Josep Pons. These performances were followed shortly by his participation in the Escuela Superior de Canto’s production of La Traviata (Verdi). In November 2002, invited by the director of the Romea Theater of Murcia, Spain, Mr. Aladrén appeared as a soloist in several fully staged productions of Zarzuelas. Earlier that year he was selected by Madrid’s prestigious Friends of Opera Society to perform a solo recital under the auspices of its Young Artists Program.

Mr. Aladrén began studying voice at the Music Conservatory of Zaragoza with soprano Beatriz Gimeno and coach Eliberto Sánchez Brau. Concurrently, he pursued a degree in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Zaragoza, which he completed in 1998. From 2000-2003 Mr. Aladrén was a student at the Escuela Superior de Canto, where he studied vocal technique under the guidance of Carmen Rodríguez-Aragón and repertoire with coach Aída Monasterio. Mr. Aladrén also holds a Performance Diploma in Voice from the School of Music in Bloomington (Indiana University) under the guidance of sopranos Virginia Zeani and Martina Arroyo as well as baritone Andreas Poulimenos. After moving to Miami he is been taking vocal lessons with maestro Manny Perez as well as repertoire and coaching advices with great maestra and soprano Virginia Zeani in Palm Beach.

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Rev. December 2009