Ulises Aquino Guerra

Ulises Aquino Guerra. Distinguished baritone, promoter and theatrical director. Founder and general director of the Ópera de la Calle group.

Born in the province of La Habana, Cuba. He began his vocal studies with his father, baritone Rafael Aquino, continued them at the Instituto Superior de Arte with tenor Adolfo Casas, and later became a student of Hugo Marcos and Manuel Pena.

In 1987 he obtained a scholarship to study at the Scala di Milano, where he received advanced classes from Giulietta Simionato, and later, in Spain, master classes from Montserrat Caballé.

In 1985 he joined the Gran Teatro de La Habana, where he debuted in the role of Silvio in the opera Los payasos, by Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo.

He possesses a repertoire composed of:
Operas:
La Traviata, Il Trovatore and Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi
El barbero de Sevilla by Gioachino Rossini
Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale by Donizetti
La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Don Giovanni by Mozart
Fausto by Gounod
Caballería rusticana by Mascagni

Zarzuelas:
María la O and El cafetal by Ernesto Lecuona.
Amalia Batista by Rodrigo Prats.
Cecilia Valdés by Gonzalo Roig.
Luisa Fernanda by Federico Moreno Torroba.
Los gavilanes by Jacinto Guerrero.
La leyenda del beso and La del Soto del Parral by Reveriano Soutullo and Vert.

Operettas:
La princesa de las Czardas, by Emmerich Kálmán.
La viuda Alegre, by Franz Lehar.
He has also performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and participated in the first Cuban performance of Carmina Burana by Kart Off, with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba, conducted by maestro Leo Brouwer.

Discography
He has recorded for the RTVE record label the CD Recordar, Homenaje a Ernesto Lecuona, and for the SONY label El universo de mi voz.

Competitions and Performances
He has participated in international competitions at:
Belvedere.
Vienna.
Austria.
Opéra Royal de Marseille, France.
Gala Artística of the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992; with the opera Les Pécheurs de Perles, by Bizet.

He has performed in opera theaters in:
Colombia
United States
Spain
Italy
France
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Mexico
Costa Rica

He has sung alongside Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Pedro Lavirgen, Vicente Sardinero and Gian Piero Mastromei, among others.

In Cuba he has performed at:
Teatro Sauto, Matanzas
Teatro Terry, Cienfuegos
Teatro La Caridad, Santa Clara
Teatro Martí, Santiago de Cuba