 Mexican born tenor Arturo ChacĂłn-Cruz
A recent graduate of the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio was the winner
of the "Don Plácido Domingo" Zarzuela Prize and the "Cultur Arte
de Puerto Rico" Prize in Operalia 2005 in Madrid, Spain where he sang under
the baton of Maestro Plácido Domingo.
He is also the recipient of the "RamĂłn Vargas" Opera Development
Scholarship given by Mr. Vargas and Pro Opera in Mexico.
Mr. ChacĂłn-Cruz has received many other awards, including the Antonio Davalos
Osio Special Award, at the Carlo Morelli’s National Opera Contest, The
CONACULTA International Grant, The SIVAM grant, 1st Place and Audience Choice
Award at the 2003 Eleanor McCollum Competition in Houston Grand Opera,
2nd.Place in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the New
England Region, he was awarded “Artist of the Year 2005” in Mexico by El
Imparcial, also he recently had the honor of singing for Mexico’s president
Vicente Fox.
Mr. ChacĂłn-Cruz has participated in several Young Artist Programs, including
SIVAM workshops, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program among many others.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut in march 2002, singing in Mozart’s Coronation
Mass, and he returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2003 to sing Beethoven’s Mass in
C and Charpentier’s Te Deum with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, as well a
concert with the New York Pops in 2006.
He made his
debut with the with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as part of the “Summer
in the City” concert series in July of 2004.
In September 2005 he sang a concert of Mexican and Spanish music with the
Houston Symphony Orchestra.
As a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio he covered Tamino in The Magic
Flute, Cavaradossi in Tosca and sang Pang in Turandot 2003-04 season. In the
2004-05 season he performed the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Ruiz in
Il Trovatore, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Alpheus
in Lysistrata (World Premiere by Mark Adamo), the High Priest in Mozart’s
Idomeneo, and the covers of Fenton in Falstaff and the title role in Idomeneo.
Next season he will sing Pinkerton with Washington National Opera and debut the
Puccini roles of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with the Connecticut Opera,
Edmondo in Manon Lescaut with Houston Grand Opera and Rodolfo in La Boheme with
Utah Festival Opera and with Washington National Opera.
He will be singing the role of Christian in Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac next to
the acclaimed tenor Plácido Domingo with the Valencia Opera in Spain.
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