Watch: Music director also sings counter-tenor
mainThe fast-rising Mexican musician Iván López Reynoso, 30, has been named music director of the Orchestra of Teatro Bellas Artes, one of Latin America’s leading opera houses.
A protégé of Eduardo Mata, Lopez Reynos made his house debut eight years ago.
Aside from conducting, he also sings counter-tenor.
Extremely well.
Beat that.
He sings extremely well AND he is a protégé.
And, as smart as he looks, I am sure he is or will be soon pursuing a career as a protecteur.
Good luck to him! It is what we need: more protegés and protecteurs – voilá.
Imagine how much more reassured we would feel if we knew the critical care Doctor that is attending to our loved one in the ICU is there because she is someone’s protégé.
Perhaps your upvoter missed the irony?
You always have the possibility of thinking harder and changing your vote. Feel free. And a big up vote for you M.
Merry Christmas!
And Merry Christmas to you, R, without irony!
on what basis do you say that? He was proposed by the orchestra and sure he is beloved by many, but not you.
Protégé? López Reynoso was five years old when Eduardo Mata tragically died.
He must have been a wunderkind, ilui, or whatever the Mexican equivalent might be.
From his Bio:
“Iván López Reynoso shares the privilege of being the youngest conductor to appear at the Teatro Bellas Artes in Mexico City with maestro Eduardo Mata.”
So he became a conductor at, what?, 4 years old?
This whole page is a mess. Lopez Reynoso was NOT a protégé of Mata. They both appeared at TBA at a young age, possibly the same age. Lopez’s bio on his website is oddly in English only and is misleading. It has misled.
I think the answer may be that Eduardo Mata was the youngest person to conduct at the Bellas Artes, in 1976 when he would have been 34, and that is the privilege that López Reynoso, at the age of 30, is sharing with Mata (i.e. Rogerio has misunderstood the sentence in the biography). I do not know where protégé comes from, except that Mata was a towering influence generally in Mexico.
(https://www.eugeneistomin.com/the-musician/the-organizer/casals-festival-in-mexico-in-1976/)
He sings very well but the orchestra is dreadful. But why he faces them and not the camera? The Stabat Mater doesn’t need conducting except a nod here and there.
He is facing a camera. Since there is no audience, he doesn’t have to face the audience. What’s the problem?
I’m only guessing, but it may be that he lives in this Aguascalientes/Guanajuato area of Central Mexico, Covid-19 has restricted his travel, and this orchestra is the only one in that region. It may not be a top-notch orchestra, and that may be why he needs to conduct it, but the performance, under Covid-19 conditions, is pleasing, in my opinion, and much better than nothing.
In 2020 Maestro López Reynoso has travelled to Spain to conduct performances of Puritani and Cosi fan tutte in Oviedo and Sevilla respectively. You may not like the orchestra but if you want to make a country’s orchestras better you get involved and you work with them. And that is what Maestro ILR does: he works hard to make music better in his country. And he is in demand in other countries too. Good for him!
Because the hall is empty and he is making music with the orchestra. Obvious.
Protégé. What a terrible word.