Miguel Rosales

SCHOLAR DESCRIPTION

Baritone Miguel Rosales has been under the tutorship of Andriana Yordanova, Claire Massa, Miriam Gauci, Juliette Bisazza Zanni, and Gillian Zammit. He has also attended workshops and master classes with Verena Rein, Thomas E. Bauer, Monique Krüs, Wolfgang Holzmair, and Kurt Ollmann. Miguel holds a B.A. (Hons) in Music Studies from the University of Malta. Miguel has sung under the baton of many respectable conductors including Michael Laus, Damiano Binetti, Philip Walsh, and Andreas Spering, amongst others. He has also performed as a soloist in local venues such as Teatru Manoel, Girgenti Palace, and St John’s Co-Cathedral, as well as in venues in Italy and Germany.

Miguel formed part of the Teatru Manoel Youth Opera between 2014 and 2016. He first performed as Guglielmo in a concert version of Mozart’s Così fan tutte under the direction of Dr Hans-Jürgen Nagel, and has also made his on-stage operatic debut as Benoît and Alcindoro in the Teatru Astra's 2015 production of Puccini's La bohème. Other performed roles include Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld), Lady Jane (Patience), and Sargente & Doganiere (La bohème). He has also performed a number of song cycles such as the Songs of Travel (Vaughan Williams), Trois mélodies 1916 (Satie) and Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Ravel). Miguel is a fan of contemporary work, and is one of the few singers in Malta to experiment with works by composers such as John Cage, Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann, Charles Ives, and Philip Ciantar.