Jessica Pratt and Javier Camarena Live in The Red Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi

Name: Jessica Pratt and Javier Camarena Live in The Red Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi
Start: 2025-04-20T19:00:00+0400
End: 2025-04-20T21:00:00+0400
Location: The Red Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi

Korean National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra │ Toufic Maatouk

The Red Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi

Sun 20 Apr

Doors:19:00

Start:19:30

The Red Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi

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20 April 2025

The Red Theater-New York University Abu Dhabi-7:30 PM

The star soprano and tenor Jessica Pratt and Javier Camarena bring their artistry to a thrilling opera gala with the Korean National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra conducted by Toufic Maatouk. Hailed by the New York Times as possessing ‘gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical grace’, Jessica Pratt is one of today’s most admired interpreters of the Bel Canto repertoire.

Mexican Opera star Javier Camarena was recently recognised as Male Singer of the Year by the International Opera Awards and has made a name for himself in operas by Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti and Mozart.

They will sing Arias and duets from Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Mascagni, Massenet and Verdi.

JAVIER CAMARENA

Recognised as the Male Singer of the Year by the International Opera Awards in 2021, Javier Camarena has become one of the world’s most popular and sought-after tenors. Born in Xalapa in Mexico he first studied at the Universidad Veracruzana before graduating with honours from the University of Guanajuato and winning first prize in Mexico’s Carlo Morelli National Singing Competition. He made his professional debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City as Tonio in La Fille du régiment before being invited to join Zurich’s International Opera Studio and becoming a member of the opera house’s ensemble from 2006 to 2014.
Camarena’s principal rules include Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola and the title role in Le Comte Ory, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Arturo and Edgardo in Lucia di Lamermoor, Gualtiero in Il pirata, Des Grieux in Manon, Alfredo in La traviata, Fenton in Falstaff, working with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Marco Armiliato, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Giuseppe Finzi, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Evelino Pidò and Franz Welser-Möst.
He has been given the Opera News Award (2020), the Bellas Artes Opera Medal, the ISPA Distinguished Artist Award and the Mozart Medal (all in 2019) and in 2014 his hometown of Xalapa awarded him the Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada medal as distinguished citizen.
His recordings include Recitales (2014), a live recording of arias by Rossini, Scarlatti and Donizetti with songs by Mexico’s Agustín Lara, María Grever and others; Serenata (2015), a collection of songs by Lara and other Mexican composers; and an album of traditional children’s songs entitled Javier Camerena canta a Cri Cri (2015). His album Contrabandista (2018) explores the life and music of the legendary Spanish tenor Manuel García. He has also appeared on numerous operatic DVD/Blu-ray releases, including Così fan tutte (2010), Falstaff (2012), Rossini’s Le Comte Ory and Otello (2014), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2014) and a second version of Falstaff with Zubin Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (2014), as well as Schubert and Mozart masses under Claudio Abbado recorded at the Salzburg Festival (2013).

JESSICA PRATT

Jessica Pratt has been described as a soprano with ‘gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical grace’ and is considered one of today’s foremost interpreters of the bel canto repertoire.
British-born and Australian raised she now lives in Florence and completed her vocal studies in Rome with Gianluigi Gelmetti and Renata Scotto, currently working with Lella Cuberli. She has won many international vocal competitions, including the Australian Singing Competition, the Vienna State Opera Award and the Rome Opera Award and in 2013 the prize for coloratura sopranos, La Siola d’Oro.
Since her European debut in 2007 as Lucia di Lammermoor she has sung at prestigious venues including the Teatra alla Scala, the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Deutsche Oper Berlin with such conductors as Kent Nagano, Colin Davis, Christian Thielemann, David Parry, Wayne Marshall, Donato Renzetti, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Daniel Oren and Nello Santi. Her roles have included Gilda to Leo Nucci’s Rigoletto in Parma and Seville, Matilde in Guillaume Tell with Juan Diego Florez as Arnold in Lima, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Reims, Giovanni d’Arco in Martina Franca, Lucia in Berlin, Milan, Rome, Amsterdam and Lima, Amina in La sonnambula in Bari, Inès in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine at La Fenice in Venice, Violetta in La traviata in Melbourne, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Turin, Amenaide in Tancredi at the Opéra de Lausanne, Zenobia in Aureliano in Palmira at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival, Elvira in I puritani in Florence and Melbourne, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona, Semiramide in Marseille, Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello in Barcelona, Rosmonda d’Inghilterra at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte.
In 2016 she released her first solo album, Serenade, and other DVD/Blu-ray and CD recordings include Rossini’s Otello and Vaccai’s La sposa di Messina, Rossini’s Adelaide di Borgogna, Cirio in Babilonia and Aureliano in Palmira, Donizetti’s Viva la mamma and Bellini’s La sonnambula.

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