{"id":3147,"date":"2013-05-22T22:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=3147"},"modified":"2013-12-05T23:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:35:15","slug":"third-place-alejandro-magallon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=3147","title":{"rendered":"Third Place : Alejandro Magall\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tenor<\/span><\/h3>\n

Recipient of the 2013 Third Place<\/h4>\n

The Mary Barker Evans Award<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mexican tenor,\u00a0Alejandro Magall\u00f3n studied at the School of Sacred Music in Guadalajara where he joined the city’s opera company and toured around the country. He moved to Houston 9 years ago joining the prestigious HGO chorus on it’s 2004 season being an active member since appearing in more than 30 different productions. \u00a0He has worked one on one with Ram\u00f3n Vargas, Simon O’Neill, Donald George, Rolando Villaz\u00f3n, Julia Faulkner, Carol Kirkpatrick and Kathryn Wright. \u00a0On 2007 he traveled to Austria to be part of Elizabeth Bachman’s “TOP Opera” program where he performed scenes from several operas and operettas such as Carmen, La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Die Fledermaus, Das Land des L\u00e4chelns.\u00a0During the Winter of that same year he joined the Houston Grand Opera’s outreach program company, “Opera to Go!” where he performed the roles of\u00a0Tamino, from The Magic Flute, by W. A. Mozart; Romeo, from Romeo & Juliet, by Charles Gounod; Big Anthony, from Strega Nona, by Mary Carol Warwick; the Prince, from Rusalka, by Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k; the stepsister Margarita, from Cinderella in Spain, by Mary Carol Warwick; Buffo, from The Princess and the pea by the same author; Don Jos\u00e9, from Carmen, by Georges Bizet and the role of Ricardo in the world premiere of A Way Home, by Ethan Greene; completing more than 800 performances by the Spring of 2012.<\/p>\n

Master Classes: \u00a0Louis Salemno,\u00a0Elizabeth Bachman,\u00a0Robert de Simone, \u00a0Steven White, Marita Knobel and Brigitte Steinert.<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 19, 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n