José Cura [SEP] voice type
José Cura
José Luis Victor Cura Gómez (born December 5, 1962 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer known for intense and original interpretations of opera characters, notably "Otello" in Verdi’s "Otello", "Samson" in Saint-Saëns’ "Samson et Dalila", "Canio" in Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci", "Stiffelio" in Giuseppe Verdi's "Stiffelio" and many others.
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assistant conductor of the university choir.
At 21, he won a grant to study at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires where he remained for six months.
Cura continued to sing in the opera chorus while focusing on composition and conducting until 1988, when he began working with Horacio Amauri to develop proper singing technique.
Determined to make a career in opera, José Cura moved to Italy in 1991 and began voice training with Vittorio Terranova. In February 1992 he made his debut in Verona as the father in Henze