Baritone José Antonio López is a versatile singer who navigates amidst styles and eras ranging from the Baroque to contemporary music, dividing his artistic efforts between concerts, the opera, and recitals. He is always paying attention to the style and expressiveness of each period and the use of his voice at the service of music. In the concert arena, his recent debut at the LA Phil with Gustavo Dudamel, as well as his engagements with other orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony (Messiah and Mahler's Eighth Symphony), the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Dresdner Festspieleorchester, the Antwerp Symphony, the BBC Symphony and Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the La Cetra Barockorchester, the Budapest Festival or the National Orchestra of Spain, in venues such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Laeiszhalle, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Barbican or the Mozarteum in Salzburg, or soon in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, attest to his greatness.
José Antonio López has been led by great masters such as Afkham, Boreyko, Bolton, Conlon, Dudamel, Iván Fischer, Heras-Casado, Luisotti, Maazel, Marcon, Marriner, Mena, Noseda, Pablo Pérez, Pollini, Pons, Rouset, Shani and Suzuki, among others.
He is also a dedicated performer of the Lied, having been accompanied by Maurizio Pollini at the Theater an der Wien, by Daniel Heide, Iain Burnside and Rubén Fernández Aguirre. He will soon make his debut in the Lied Cycle at the Teatro de la Zarzuela Theatre of Madrid.
Recent years have seen a significant increase in this artist's classical singing work, with a strong presence of Handel's operas and contemporary music (leading roles in the premieres of Mauricio Sotelo's El Público and Luis de Pablo's El Abrecartas at the Teatro Real in Madrid or Benet Casablancas' L'enigma di Lea at the Liceo in Barcelona), as well as featuring Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner (Der fliegende Holländer in Valencia and Meistersinger at the Teatro Real) and Strauss (Ariadne auf Naxos in Barcelona and Salome in Merida), among others. He recently made his debut at the Lausanne Opera, the Halle Händel Festspiele and the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, and will soon appear at the Innsbrucker Festwochen.
José Antonio López has recorded for the labels Deutsche Gramophon, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Naxos and Chandos.
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