National Opera Center To Host ‘The Latin American Song: A Celebration’

By David Salazar

The National Opera Center in New York will showcase “The Latin American Song: A Celebration” starring sopranos Celia Castro and Ilya Martinez, as well as tenor Mario Arevalo and baritone Rafael LeBron.

The performance, which will be accompanied by Max Lifchitz, is set for Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 and will feature music from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. Among the composers represented on the program are Hector Campos-Parsi, Jose Elizondo, Narciso Figueroa, Carlos Guastavino, Jaime Leon, Max Lifchitz, Ricardo Mora, Juan Morel Campos Tata Nacho and Teodoro Valcarcel.

Castro is the winner of the NYSTA Young Artists Competition and the Clarisse Kampel Foundation Prize. She has performed alongside the Caramoor Festival Bel Canto Program and the Association of Dominican Classical Singers.

Martinez has performed all over the U.S. and Latin America and has won prestigious awards from  the Institute of Puerto Rico, the Latin-American Cultural Center, Puerto Rican Association of Queens and the National Congress of Puerto Rican Women.

Arevalo is the winner of the 2017 Mario Lanza / Elaine Malbin Competition and has worked with such companies as the New York City Opera, the Hawaii Opera Theater, Peru’s Trujillo International Competition and El Salvador’s San Vicente Opera Festival.

Finally, LeBron has appeared in over 85 roles across the world. He has also premiered and recorded the works of Rafael Aponte-Ledee, William Ortiz and Roberto Sierra.

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