Juan de Dios Mateos
tenor
Born in Almería, he studied singing with Coral Morales and Carlos Aransay, while attending different masterclasses with Raina Kabaivanska, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Hedwig Fassbender, Ildar Abdrazakov, Luciana d'Intino, David Menéndez, Raúl Giménez or Jaume Aragall among others.
He joined the Opera Studio of Paris National Opera House from 2016 to 2018, singing Les Fêtes d' Hébè, Owen Wingrave, Bastien et Bastienne, Reigen and The little match girl passion among other projects. Since then, he has sung in theaters such as Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Centre, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Petruzelli Theater in Bari, Massimo Bellini Theater in Catania, Oslo Opera House, Theater Hagen, Campoamor Theater in Oviedo or Innsbruck Theater. Also at festivals such as Schloss Kirchstetten Klassik Festival (Austria), Opera Clandestin in Paris or LittleOpera in Zamora. Being spezialized in Rossini, he stands also out in bel canto and Mozart repertoire in operas such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'Elisir d'amore, La Cenerentola, Don Giovanni, Il Viaggio a Reims, il Turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, L'Italiana in Algeri, La Resurrezione (Händel) or in Spanish repertoire with La Dolores, La Araucana or Luisa Fernanda.
He has worked, among others, with conductors as Ottavio Dantone, Giacomo Sagripanti, Patrick Lange, Guillaume Tourniaire, Matteo Beltrami, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Nicholas Carter, Xu Zhong, Daniel Smith, Iván López-Reynoso, Michael Thomas, Toufic Maatouk, Dane Lam and Iñaki Encina.
He was awarded the Plácido Domingo prize for the best Spanish singer and the Ferrer-Salat Foundation at the 56th International Tenor Viñas Competition in 2019 and with second prize at the International Hariclea Darclée Competition in Romania in 2017, as well as Revelation Artist at the El Publico of Canal Sur in 2020.
In 2021 he received the awards Teatro Real, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro de la Maestranza, ABAO Bilbao, Gran Teatro de Ginebra, Teatro Regio di Torino and the award for best Rossinian video in the SOI International Competition by Fiorenza Cedolins. In 2023 he receives Prizo of the Public in Lousada's International Competition.
