Abraham Bretón
tenor
© Barbara Aumüller
The Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón joined the Opera Studio in 2023. He started the new season off with the Duke in Rigoletto, which is followed by roles including Flavio in Norma and a Chancellor / Officer / Bailiff in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero. Last season he enjoyed great success with three new roles: Don José in Carmen, Graf Gloria-Cassis in Offenbach's The Bandits and 1st Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte. Other roles for the company have included Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. He sang his first Nemorinos (L’elisir d’amore) and Alfredos (La traviata) in his home town of Puebla in Mexico in 2013/14 before singing in the Verdi Requiem during the »Oberlin in Italy« summer programme with the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz and at the Carnegie Hall in New York in March 2023. After graduating from the Escuela Nacional de Música in Mexico he went to the United States in 2016 to further his vocal studies and was a member of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia until 2020. Abraham Bretón took part in the 2018 Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Programme, during which he sang in Bernstein's Candide and the Duke in Rigoletto. He returned to Graz in 2019 for wonderful Zarzuela performances. He will make his debut at the Sydney Opera House, singing Don José, in the summer of 2025.