Carlos Osuna

Tenor

Mexican Tenor Carlos Osuna is currently a member of the Ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where he already performed roles such as Ismaele (Verdi: Nabucco), Cassio (Verdi: Otello), Pang (Puccini: Turandot), Edmondo (Puccini: Manon Lescaut), Nick and Joe (Puccini: La Fanciulla del West), Jarek Prus (Janaček: Več Markopulos), Narraboth (Strauss: Salome), Beppo (Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci), Incroyable (Giordano: Andrea Chenier), Remendado (Bizet: Carmen) and Sir Bruno Roberton (Bellini: I Puritani). In the past seasons, he performed way over 40 different roles on the stage of this house. In the past seasons he guested at opera houses and concert halls over all of Europe, among them the Semperoper Dresden, where he Performer as Scaramuccio in a premiere production of Richard Strauss‘ Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of Christian Thielemann, and at the opera houses of Leipzig (Marquis in Lulu) and Heidelberg (Alfredo in La Traviata ). In the Theater Basel, he was member of the OperAvenir studio in the in 2009/2010 season. Further roles in his diverse repertoire are Alfredo (Verdi: La Traviata), Rodolfo (Puccini: La Bohème), Pinkerton (Puccini: Madama Butterlfy), Kudrjas (Janáček: Katja Kabánovà) and Reverend Horace Adams (Britten: Peter Grimes).

He collaborated with artists such as Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Mirella Freni, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Juan Diego Florez and Ramon Vargas. He sung under the baton of conductors such as Simone Young, Marco Armillato, Franz Welser-Möst, Christian Thielemann, Giampaolo Bisanti, Alain Altinoglu und Peter Schneider. He performed in numerous concert halls, among them the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico, the Binka Kaikan Tokyo and the Salle des Combin Verbier.

Repertoire

Schedule

  • Remendado

    Bizet: Carmen

    Wiener Staatsoper
    6., 7., 20., 23., 26. Februar 2021
    1., 26. März 2021
    29. Mai 2021
    2., 6., 9. Juni 2021

  • Narraboth
    (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

    Strauss: Salome

    Cité de la Musique
    Philharmonie de Paris
    16 March 2020

  • Pang

    Puccini: Turandot

    Wiener Staatsoper
    27 February 2020
    1, 5 March 2020

  • Narraboth

    Strauss: Salome

    Wiener Staatsoper
    20, 22 January 2020

  • Malcolm

    Verdi: Macbeth

    Wiener Staatsoper
    25, 28 October 2019
    1 November 2019

  • Scaramuccio

    Wiener Staatsoper
    6, 8, 11 October 2019