Francisco Araiza

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Full Name	Francisco Araiza
Occupation	Opera Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 4, 1950(1950-10-04)
Age	74
Birthplace	Mexico City
Country	Mexico
Horoscope	Libra

Francisco Araiza Biography

Francisco Araiza is one of the most popular and richest Opera Singer who was born on October 4, 1950 in Mexico City, Mexico. Francisco Araiza was born in Mexico City on 4 October 1950, the second child of Jose Araiza and Guadalupe Andrade’s seven children. His father, who was also an tenor, was an organist at the church as well as an organist for Mexico’s national opera house, Compania Nacional de Opera de Bellas Artes. Araiza’s father taught him how to read music and played the piano as young however, he didn’t start to pursue formal music studies until he reached the age of 15, when he started taking the organ and singing lessons at Escuela Nacional de Musica. He continued to take singing classes during his studies in business at National Autonomous University of Mexico where he was a quarterback on the football team as well as sang in the university’s choir. He was only 18 when his first professional appearance was in 1969, with a concert with Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A soprano Irma Gonzalez, a well-known voice instructor in the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico in Mexico City, was in the audience. On her advice, Araiza took up full-time study at the conservatory. She would become his primary voice instructor during the following four years however, he also took classes in the German repertory of opera and lieder with Erika Kubacsek. She was a Viennese singing instructor who lived within Mexico City at the time.

Recently retired from the stage of opera, Araiza teaches singing and is on the jury of numerous international competitions for voice. Since 2003, he has been an instructor of vocal performance in the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He has also taught master classes as well as taught in the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2013, he was back as Cinna in the opera of Spontini La dressale, performed at the Semperoper of Dresden in a live version.

Araiza initially specialised in the Mozart and Rossini repertoire—in 1986 he was described as the leading tenore di grazia of the day. However, in the mid- 1980s he also began taking on Italian and French lyric tenor roles and the young Wagnerian heroes such as Lohengrin and Walther von Stolzing, sometimes with considerable success, especially his Des Grieux in Manon (San Francisco Opera, 1986) and Lohengrin (La Fenice, 1990). He also ventured into the spinto tenor repertoire with performances at Zurich Opera in the 1990s as Alvaro in La forza del destino, Don José in Carmen and the title role in Andrea Chenier.

Araiza was a permanent participant of Zurich Opera in 1977 and began performing as guest artists in the major European as well as North American opera companies and festivals. He made his debut with the Bayreuth International Festival, in 1978, in the role of Steersman in Der Fliegende Hollander, at and the Vienna State Opera in 1978 as Tamino in The Magic Flute, London’s Royal Opera House in 1983 as Ernesto in Don Pasquale as well as San Francisco Opera in 1984 as Ramiro in La Cenerentola. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (in John Dexter’s production) on March 12, 1984. He then appeared at the Met for another 53 times during the period between 1984 until 1995. In that time his appearances as a guest also comprised those at Bavarian State Opera, Paris Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Fenice and the Salzburg Festival. He was named an Kammersanger from the Vienna State Opera in 1988 and was given the Mozart Medal in 1991.

Francisco Araiza Net Worth

Francisco Araiza is one of the richest Opera Singer from Mexico. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Francisco Araiza 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jose Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950) is an Mexican operatic lied and tenor who has performed solo in the most prestigious concert halls as well as in leading roles for tenors in major opera houses across Europe as well as North America during the course of a long career. He was born in Mexico City, he studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica de Mexico and then in Germany together with Mozartian Tenor Richard Holm, and lieder interpretation with Erik Werba. His first operatic appearance was in the year 1970 at Mexico City as First Prisoner in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Araiza first came to international fame by singing Mozart as well as Rossini operas, but later in the 1980s, he expanded the repertoire of his work to encompass Italian and French Tenors with lyric roles as well as Wagnerian roles like Lohengrin or Walther of Stolzing. He was appointed an Kammersanger in the Vienna State Opera in 1988. Since his retirement from the stage where operas are performed He sings in a choir and is on the jury of many International singing contests.

Araiza’s first stage opera took place in 1970 when he sang the role of The First Prisoner at a concert show of Beethoven’s Fidelio by the Compania Nacional of Opera de Bellas Arts. The following year, he was promoted to the part in Jacquino within the exact production and then sang Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon and Rodolfo in Puccini’s La boheme, with the company. In 1974, he traveled to Munich to take part with the ARD International Music Competition, which was where he took home the third Prize. Even though the music he sang in the competition were taken from the Italian thematic tenor repertoire the judges advised him that he could make the perfect Mozart Tenor and gave an engagement to the Karlsruhe Opera. He chose to stay in Munich to further train alongside Richard Holm and Erik Werba prior to his debut in Karlsruhe in 1975. He sang as Ferrando in Cosi’s fan tutte.

Araiza was married to the mezzo-soprano Vivian Jaffray by whom he had a son and daughter. The couple divorced and he later married the music historian and stage director Ethery Inasaridse by whom he has another son and daughter. In July 2011 Araiza received the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Gold Medal for the Fine Arts) from the Mexican government during a concert at the Palacio de Bellas Artes marking his 40-year career. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Morelia’s Universidad Michoacana San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico

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