Nelson Ayoub

Nelson Ayoub .Bass. Cuban lyric singer, invited member of the National Lyric Theater of Cuba, Opera Singer, Concert Performer, Zarzuela Singer, Oratorio Singer, Traditional Cuban Music Singer. He possesses extensive experience as a pedagogue of art and vocal technique and enjoys wide-ranging expertise.

He was born in Santiago de Cuba where he interrupted his university studies in Mathematics to dedicate himself to singing. He attended courses at the Municipal Conservatory taught by Zoila Gálvez and Francisco Fernández Dominicis.

He joined the choruses of the National Opera of Cuba and participated in Havana presentations of the Leipzig Opera and the Cuban premiere of Halka. This great artist began his training at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana and at the National School of Art of Cuba. Alicia Perea taught him complementary piano classes. He studied acting with professor Adolfo de Luis.

He sings in different languages including Italian, French, German, English, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. He possesses extensive experience as a pedagogue of art and vocal technique. He possesses extensive experience in the following specialties:
Opera Singer
Concert Performer
Zarzuela Singer
Oratorio Singer
Traditional Cuban Music Singer

International Performances
Austria: International Concert Hall of the Auersperg Palace (Vienna) and Shubert Hall-Theater (Linz).
Colombia: Colón Theater (Bogotá), Metropolitan Theater (Medellín).
Germany: Leipzig Opera.
Czech Republic: Stone Castle and Stavosky Theater (Prague).
Slovak Republic: Philharmonic Hall and National Theater of Bratislava.
Hungary: Hall-Theater of the Palace of Writers and Artists of Budapest, Franz Liszt Hall in the city of Pest.
Russia: Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and Opera Theater of Minsk.
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Hall (Sofia)
Republic of Estonia: Volova Museum.
Poland: Chopin Hall, F. Liszt Hall, and Moniusko Hall-Theater, etc.
Spain: Opera Theater of Oviedo, Opera Theater of Gijón.

Work with Artists
Nelson Ayoub has had the honor of being conducted by great orchestra conductors such as: Rodrigo Prats, Manuel Dúchesne Cuzán, H. Leipold, R. Raichev, Felix Guerrero, R. Sánchez Ferrer, Elena Herrera, etc.

He has shared the stage with singers of great caliber such as: Peter Bugalov, Incola Nicolov, Alfredo Sadel, Pedro Lavirgen, María Foltin among others.

Repertoire
OPERAS:
Verdi's Il Trovatore (Ferrando)
Verdi's Rigoletto (Sparafucille)
Verdi's Don Carlo (Felipe II)
Puccini's La Bohème (Colline)
Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Don Basilio)
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Raymondo)
Moniuzko's Paria (Great Brahman)
Arrieta's Marina (Pascual)
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Porgy)

ZARZUELAS
The Tavern Keeper of the Port by P. Zorozabal (Simpson)
The Coffee Plantation by Ernesto Lecuona (Lázaro)
Cecilia Valdés by Gonzalo Roig (José D. Pimienta)
The Bat by J. Strauss (Frank)

In all of these and other great works, he has performed the principal character of his voice type and in all of them has achieved great success. He has also developed an extensive career as a concert performer and possesses a varied repertoire, which includes Italian classics, German lied, Negro spirituals, and Latin American music, from the lightest to the most elaborate.

International Tours
1974- USSR, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
1989- USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
1992- Austria
1994- Colombia
1995- Colombia
1999- Spain
2000- Austria and Spain.
2003- Argentina.
2004- Ecuador
2005- Ecuador
2007- Argentina

Awards
He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), has received important medals, orders, and national and international distinctions, among them the Order for National Culture and the Raúl Gómez García Order.