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Omar Carrión
Baritone

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Baritone Omar Carrión was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The son of singers Hilda Angelici and Antonio Carrión with whom he studied vocal technique and repertoire. He was perfected at the Superior Institute of Art of the Teatro Colón, later with the soprano Delia Rigal and the baritone Sherrill Milnes in the USA. He was winner of the Rossini Contest, semifinalist of the Pavarotti Contest in Philadelphia (USA) and represented Argentina in “Cardiff Singer of the World”.

Mr. Carrión debuted at the Teatro Colón and since that time he has sung protagonists in Cosi fan tutte; Don Pasquale; L’elisir d ‘amore; Romeo and Juliet; The Absent City; Manon; Don Carlos; Manon Lescaut; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Cenerentola; Il Turco in Italy; Simon Boccanegra; La traviata; Turandot; La boheme; The Barber of Seville (where he had a unique success in 2014); Adriana Lecouvreur. He also sang concerts with the Philharmonic and the stable orchestra of the Teatro Colón. There he sang alongside figures like Placido Domingo; Sherrill Milnes; Mirella Freni; Leo Nucci; Lioness Mitchell; Denisse Graves; Jennifer Larmoore; Neil Shicoff; Alen Fondary; Peter Dvorsky; Wladimir Chernov; Paolo Elvira; Raúl Giménez; Marcelo Álvarez; Sergei Larin; Peter Dvorsky; among others.

Mr. Carrión sang abroad in Mexico (tour with the Teatro Colón) in the National Auditorium. Ecuador (Barber of Seville). Uruguay (Carmen) and Barbero; Teatro Solís. Colombia (La Traviata; Barber of Seville; Il Trovatore; La Viuda Alegre). Brazil (Barber of Seville and La Viuda Alegre). Chile (Barber of Seville, two productions, in Temuco and Talca). Concerts in Liepaja (Latvia), where he made the commercial recording of I Pagliacci, together with Luis Lima and Sherrill Milnes, singing the role of Silvio, currently for sale. Gala concert at the Cardiff Albert Hall, broadcast by the BBC of Wales. Tour with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Rafael Frubeck de Burgos with Las Ausencias de Dulcinea, for Spain, Germany and Greece (Herodes Aticus Theater).

At the Municipal Theater of Chile he has sung since 2000: Roberto Devereux; La Favorita (in French); La Traviata (two productions), Rigoletto; Simon Boccanegra; Il Trovatore and I Due Foscari in direct transmission for all of Chile. Recently an award-winning version of Il Trovatore in Talca, Chile. He also sang Madama Butterfly‘s Sharpless in his debut at the Sodre Theater in Montevideo.

At the Teatro Argentino de la Plata debuted with Cosi fan tutte; and also sang I Pagliacci; The Bat; La boheme; Barber of Seville in two different productions, Il trovatore, and Don Carlo in French. Mr. Carrión made the world premiere of “God and Fatherland”, an unpublished school anthem of Giacomo Puccini, in May 2006.

In Buenos Aires Lírica he has been singing since 2003. Madama Butterfly; Barber of Seville; Lucia di Lammermoor; La traviata; Rigoletto; Ernani; Belisario; Il trovatore; I Pagliacci (debuting Tonio with Luis Lima as Canio); Cosi fan tutte among others. In Cosi fan tutte, he has sung both roles, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso) and Michonnet by Adriana Lecouvreur.

During 2019 he sang Germont of Traviata in Medellín, Colombia, Simon Boccanegra in Simon Boccanegra in Buenos Aires and Tales of Hoffman at the Teatro Colón.

Future engagement include Sharplesss in Madama Butterfly in April 2020 at the theater of the Bicentennial of San Juan, Argentina.

Mr. Carrión specializes in bel canto and Verdian baritone roles.

Who offered the most complete and satisfactory work among the main singers was the most experienced, and at the same time the only international member of the cast, the Argentine baritone Omar Carrión, well known to the Chilean public and who has always stood out for his Verdian interpretations: in the Municipal de Santiago he has sung in “La traviata”, “Rigoletto”, “Simón Boccanegra”, “Los dos Foscari” and also in “El troubadour” the last time this work was offered in Chile, in 2013. In 2012 He had already sung in the TRM, as Figaro in "The Barber of Seville", and now he returned to that stage just a couple of days before the premiere, to replace the colleague originally considered for the role of the Count of Luna, the Chilean baritone Arturo Jiménez. Carrión demonstrates a bulletproof trade, knows how to handle his voice very well and his noble song was the most appropriate to the composer's style, what the public knew how to appreciate, judging by the loud applause received at the end of the function.
Joel Poblete
www.biobiochile.cl
In the role of the Count of Luna was the Argentine baritone Omar Carrión, who wore total mastery of his character and gave style lessons with his experience, already tested at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and other settings.
Maria Celeste Jimenez
www.tuiteroscultura.com
To complete the triumphant protagonist tem was Master Omar Carrión, displaying his voice and his scenic class, a Sharpless who joined the ideal whole of this proposal.
Sergio Battaglia
www.desdelaplatea.net

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