Filipino-American tenor Arthur Espiritu has been active as an Operatic Tenor since his professional solo debut in 2007. Mr Espiritu has an Artist Diploma from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music under the Studio of the late Vocal Pedagog Richard Miller, a Master of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees from The University of New Orleans under the studio of Dr Raquel Cortina. His current voice teachers and coaches are Dr Robert C. White Jr. in New York, Doctor Raquel Cortina in New Orleans, and Nelly Miricioiu in London.
Mr Espiritu’s most recently performed roles include: the title role debut in Verdi’s Don Carlo with Oper Klosterneuburg, a role debut of Riccardo/Gustavo in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera with Theater Bonn, a reprise of the role Rodolfo with Oper Köln, and Romeo in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette (Theater Magdeburg & Varna State Opera). He has performed over the years the roles of Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme (Sydney Opera House-
Opera Australia, Theater Magdeburg, New Israeli Opera, Klaipeda Lithuania), Roberto, Earl of Leicester in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda (Theater Gaertnerplatz, Irish National Opera), Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata (Cultural Center of the Philippines, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Basel), the title role in Gounod’s Faust (Theater St. Gallen, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater), and Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Daegu Opera Festival, Oper Leipzig, Cultural Center of the Philippines).
Past roles include Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Opera Memphis, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera North Summer Festival in New Hampshire, US, Theater Gaertnerplatz in Munich), The Shepherd in Szymanowski’s King Roger (Opera Australia in Melbourne), Duca di Mantova in Verdi’s Rigoletto (Theater St. Gallen, St. Margarethen Summer Opera Festival in Austria), Fernando in Donizetti’s La Favorita (Theater St. Gallen), Conte Almaviva in Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia (Opera North Summer Opera Festival in New Hampshire, Charlottesville Opera, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Cultural Center of the Philippines), Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (Teatro all Scala, Teatro Piccolo di Milano, Theater Basel, Theater St. Gallen), Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera Fuoco in Paris, former Connecticut Opera), Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (New Israeli Opera), Elvino in Bellini’s La Sonnambula (Theater St. Gallen, Theater Gaertnerplatz), Publio in Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione (Gotham Chamber Opera in New York).
In concert, he debuted in the renowned Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, sang as a soloist with Munich Symphony Orchestra at the Gasteig in Munich, sang as a tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Teatro La Verdi in Milan, and as a tenor soloist in another Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Oulu Symphony in Finland.
He will reprise the roles of Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme (Sofia Opera & Ballet, Oper Köln, and the Polish National Opera), a house debut with Theater Lübeck and a return to the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater singing the title role of Faust by Gounod, Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Oper Leipzig).
Arthur Espiritu won the distinguished 2009 George London Award. Furthermore he won the La Scala award at the Belvedere Competition in 2007. He won top prizes in voice competitions such as The Irene Dalis Competition in San Jose California, Opera Birmingham Voice Competition in Alabama, The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the National Opera Association Competition in New York.
