Spinetti, Ian
No. 50
Voice type: Tenor
Country: Brazil
Date of birth: 6 April, 1995
After his successful role debut as Pedrillo in Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio” at the Austrian festival Oper Burg Gars in summer 2021, Brazilian tenor Ian Spinetti can currently be seen at the Theater Kiel in the children’s opera “Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer” by Elena Kats-Chernin based on Michael Ende’s book of the same name. At the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen, he will sing the role of the First Sailor in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” from January 2022. In the summer of 2022, he returns to the Oper Burg Gars as Remendado in Bizet’s “Carmen.”
In 2020 the Bavarian State Opera in Munich had engaged him for the leading role in the children’s opera “Spring doch”, which was not performed after rehearsals “due to Corona”.
Ian Spinetti made his operatic debut in 2019 as Jaquino in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with great success at the Oper Burg Gars.
In the choir of the Thüringer Bachwochen, Ian Spinetti sang numerous works by Johann Sebastian Bach under Helmuth Rilling in 2016. He was soon invited to take on solo parts (e.g. in Bach’s Mass in B minor) at concerts of the International Choir Academy Lübeck. Other promoters quickly became aware of him and engaged him for the solo part in Rossini’s “Petite messe solennelle”, among others.
Ian Spinetti began his vocal studies at the conservatory of his hometown Brasilia with Francisco Frias. The young tenor came to Europe for his first singing projects with an audition for the renowned International Choir Academy Lübeck under its artistic director Rolf Beck. In 2015 he was accepted as a soloist at the “First International Residency” at the “Lyric Opera of Chicago” and took courses there with Craig Terry and Julia Faulkner. He received further artistic impulse in master classes with Marcel Boone and Margreet Honig. In 2016–2019 he studied at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg. Since 2019, the young tenor has been studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Rachel Robins.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Pace non trovo (Sonetto 104 di Petrarca)
Mozart: Vedrommi Intorno – Idomeneo’s aria from Idomeneo
Verdi: Lunge da lei… O mio rimorso! – Alfredo’s aria from La traviata
Semi-final
Tchaikovsky: Kuda, kuda vi udalilis – Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin
Gounod: L’amour! L’amour!... Ah! lève-toi, soleil! – Roméo’s recitative and aria from Roméo et Juliette
Final
Puccini: Che gelida manina! – Rodolfo’s aria from La bohème
Verdi: La donna è mobile – the Duke of Mantua’s canzone from Rigoletto
Weber: Nein! länger trag’ ich nicht di Qualen… Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen – Max’s recitative and aria from Der Freischütz