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, Luis Gomes was born in Portugal, studied at the Escola de Música do Conservatório and the Escola superior de Música de Lisboa, before transferring to the UK. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden where he appeared regularly on the main stage. Roles with the company include Beppe I Pagliacci, Edmondo and Lamplighter Manon Lescaut, Fenton Falstaff and Chevalier de la Force Les dialogues des Carmélites, Gastone La Traviata, Pong Turandot, Borsa Rigoletto and Alabazar Il Turco in Italia. He has gone on to make a career on the international circuit in both opera and concert. Recent roles include Nemorino L’Elisir d’Amore, Alfredo La Traviata, Title Role Faust, Rodolfo La Boheme, Edoardo Un Giorno di Regno, Nadir Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Fenton Falstaff, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi, Young Gypsy Aleko and Ferdinand Island of Dreams. His appearance as Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi in a film for Grange Park Opera was a great success and his most recent role debut was as Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor for the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. He also took part in a staged production of the Verdi Messa da Requiem for Finnish National Opera. He appears regularly in concert and made his debut at Opera di Roma as tenor soloist in the Mozart Requiem Mass under Omer Meir Wellber.
…..and Luis Gomes make an affecting illicit couple, and his aria is delivered with passion
Nicholas Kenyon – Chief Opera Critic, The Telegraph – 7th June 2024
…dumping him for a younger rival (strongly performed by Luis Gomes)…
…. duly tears heartstrings as Lauretta, but it’s Gomes’s fervent Rinuccio that takes the vocal honours.
Neil Fisher – The Times – 7th June 2024
Formerly a Royal Opera Jette Parker Young Artist, Gomes ran off with the vocal honours as Rinuccio in Puccini’s scintillating comedy
Hugh Canning – Operalogue – 17th June 2024
Luis Gomes as Rinuccio again impresses with his soaring romantic tenor voice.
playstosee.com
Luis Gomes as Rinuccio the nephew really shines in his role—he is ardent and impassioned and able to use his powerful voice with abandon
Louise Lewis – British Theatre Guide
…from the warmly sung tenor of Luis Gomes who takes his moment in the spotlight with élan.
Mike Smith – operascene.co.uk – 29th June 2024
Une chanteuse à suivre, à l’instar de son compatriote Luis Gomes, qui s’était fait particulièrement remarquer (en décrochant plusieurs prix) lors de l’édition 2018 d’Operalia, le plus fameux des concours de chant. Son timbre attachant, son émission haut placée et sa maîtrise des règles d’interprétation de ce répertoire le destinent tout naturellement au rôle d’Edgardo. Et contrairement à pas mal de ses confrères, il ne trahit aucun effort dans les périlleuses montées vers l’aigu de son air final, « Tombe degli avi miei », qui lui vaut des vivats nourris.
Emmanuel Andrieu – Classiquenews.com- 10.03.2023
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 – 23rd March 2023
Roles performed
ALEKO: Young Gypsy
Grange Park Opera
LA BOHEME: Rodolfo
Scottish Opera
Deutsche Opera am Rhein
Fundacion Excelentia Madrid
Welsh National Opera
Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Verbier Festival
THE BARTERED BRIDE: Jenik
Peacock Theatre – British Youth Opera
I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI: Tebaldo
Buxton Opera Festival
CARMEN: Don José
Prague National Theatre – Národní Divadlo
L’ELISIR D’AMORE: Nemorino
Teatro Verdi Trieste
Den Norske Oper Oslo
L’ENFANT PRODIGUE: Azaël
Scottish Opera
LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES: Chevalier
ROH Covent Garden
EL GATO CON BOTAS: Mollinero
Linbury Theatre ROH Covent Garden
DON GIOVANNI: Don Ottavio
Teatro Verdi Trieste
FALSTAFF: Fenton
ROH Covent Garden
Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine
Grange Park Opera
FAUST: Title role
Auditório Feria de Valladolid
GIANNI SCHICCHI: Rinuccio
Centro Cultural de Belém Lisbon
Copenhagen Festival
Grange Park Opera
Film for Grange Park Opera
UN GIORNO DI REGNO: Edoardo
Chelsea Opera Group
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: Edgardo
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Pinkerton
Opera Holland Park
Fundacion Excelentia
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Coliseu do Porto
Figueira da Foz
MANON LESCAUT: Edmondo
ROH Covent Garden
Opéra Monte Carlo
ORFEE (Philip Glass): Heurtebize
Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém
I PAGLIACCI: Beppe
ROH Covent Garden
LES PECHEURS DE PERLES: Nadir
Ópera de Oviedo
RIGOLETTO: Duca
Fundacion Excelentia – Kursaal-San Sebastián & Teatro Lope de Vega Madrid
LA STRANIERA: Osburgo
Concertgebouw Amsterdam
IL TABARRO: Amante
ROH Covent Garden
LA TRAVIATA: Alfredo
Teatro Nacional de São Carlo Lisbon
Glyndebourne Touring Company
Nevill Holt Opera
Národní Divadlo Prague
TURANDOT: Pong
ROH Covent Garden
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
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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