Artistic curriculum

Introduction

Name: Cristina Faus
Cord: Mezzosoprano

It`s considered a person with a open and tolerant mind, passionate about the world of lyric theater. She has a positive attitude to the every day work and a open mind for innovations and improvement. She fits into the group easily.

She`s constant, studious, extraordinarily disciplined and self-critical and with the rest, to do the maxim quality in any situation.

She has an enterprising creativity and she believes seriously that the voice (the instrument) and the hard work (in form of study and essay), must be in the service of transmit to the opera lover, without apparent effert, the emotion and the feelings that each creator put in his play.

Studies

• Graduated in Education Sciences by the Universidad de Valencia en 1997.
• Graduated in Violoncelo and Musical Pedagogy at the Valencia Superior Conservatory.
• Licensed in sing by the same Conservatory with honours, with the teacher Ana Luisa Chova.
• Operistic interpretation courses with Elena Obratzowa from 1998 to 2000; with Renata Scotto and Magda Olivero at the Puccini Festival in Valencia, 2002.
• Masterclass of sing in the internationalsl courses of Andorra with Montserrat Caballé, 2005.

Composers teachers she usually works with: Giulio Zappa; Alejandro Zabala; José Ramón Tébar y Rubén Fernández Aguirre.

Labour and professional experience

• Profesional singer at the choir of the G. Valenciana from 1994 to 2001.
• First position at the International contest of sing "Toti dal Monte”, Treviso (Italy) in 2003.

Future commitments for the 2012 season.- La Chulapona in the Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid. Opera from compositor Carnicer "Cristóforo Colombo" in the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla. "La Vida Breve" in concert at the Palau de la Música de Valencia with the teacher Yaron Traub. "La Vida Breve" with the teacher Frühbeck de Burgos and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philarmonica Orchestra and la Boston Symphony Orchestra en Los Angeles, Toronto and Boston.

2011.- Rosina in "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (G: Rossini) Opera Season in the Auditorium of Murcia, "Die erste Walpurgisnacht"by Mendelssohn with the RTVE Orchestra and Master A. Ros Marbá, "Viva Madrid", zarzuela production of Teatro del Canal de Madrid to Santo Domingo to the Teatro of Bogotá, "Ninth Symphony " Beethoven in the Auditorium of Madrid; Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly" (Puccini) in Season Opera de Colombia.

2010.- He plays on several occasions the "Requiem" and "Coronation Mass" by Mozart at the Auditorio de Castellón Auditorio de Santiago de Compostela with the Orchestra of Galicia. Phiarmonía the Orchestra of Valencia plays the role of Grandma's "La Vida Breve " by Manuel de Falla.Vuelve the Rossini Opera Festival with maestro Yves Abel and the opera "La Cenerentola"by G. Rossini. Opera debut in Colombia with the role of Rosina in "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"by G. Rossini at the Theatre Arts "and finishes the year playing the"Amor Brujo "by Manuel de Falla.

2009.- Tour Japan with maestro Alberto Zedda performing "Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo". In the Theater of the Canal with the maestro Miguel Roa performs "Viva Madrid". Theater Villamarta of Jerez performs the opera "Falstaff". DVD recording for the signature of Deuche Gramophone, baroque zarzuela "La Clementina" of Boccherini.

2008.- The Revoltosa, Chapí, S. Sebastian and Oviedo (montaje T. Zarzuela); Te Deum, C. Cano, Palau de la Música. Valencia; Recital de Música Barroca. P. de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia; Gloria, Vivaldi, Las Palmas de G.C., Oratorio de las 7 Palabras de Cristo, Haydn, Valencia; Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler, Badalona; El Barbero de Sevilla, Rossini. Madrid (Theater Real y Auditorio P. Soler); Ermione, G. Rossini, Festival Rossini, Pessaro, Italia; Manon Lescaut, Tenerife (septiembre); Musica Clasica, R. Chapi, Madrid, (T. de la Zarzuela); Le nozze de Tetis y Peleo, G. Rossini, Tokyo y Osaka (noviembre); L’arbore di Diana, Martin y Soler, Valencia, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (diciembre).

2007.- Concert in the new Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia; Concert X anniversary of Theater Real of Madrid; Requiem de Mozart, Crevillente; Rossiniana, Theater Real, Madrid; La Revoltosa (Zarzuela), Theater de la Zarzuela, Madrid. Il viaggio a Reims. Festivales Rossini de Pessaro (Italia); Concert tribute a Rossini, Universidad de Urbino (Italy).; Requiem de Mozart, Crevillente y Valencia; Recital de Lieder, P. Les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia; La Revoltosa, Chapí, T. de la Zarzuela, Madrid; Il burbero de buon cuore, Martín y Soler, T. Real, Cover, (Madrid); La Dolorosa, Serrano, Sagunto y Simat de Valldingna; Fantasia Coral, Beethoven, Dir Lorin Maazel, P. Les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia.

2006.- January.- Recital en Valencia, Salón Bellas Artes; Marzo/Abril.- Requiem de Mozart, (4) different cities; La Pasión s/ San Juan, Bach, (3) different cities. Mayo.- 27, Alicante, Concierto Música Barroca. July.- 24/31, Venecia, La Biennale, Il mondo della luna, Lisetta (Haydn). October.- Las bodas de Figaro, (Cherubino), Santiago de Compostela; dirigida por Ros Marbá. November.- Rigoletto (Madalena), Jerez de la Frontera; December.- Misa nº 5 en La bemol de Schubert, Auditorio Nacional; El Mesias (Haendel), Auditorio Nacional, Madrid; Recital Lírico en el Auditorio de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Previous mains works:

2005: Cavalleria Rusticana, (Lola), (Mascagni) Sabadell. El Gato con Botas, (Montsalvatge), Auditorio de RTV, Madrid; Cosí Fan Tutte (Mozart) (Dorabella) Theater Jovellanos de Gijón; Recitales en Reims (“Les tâlents liriques”); Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, (“Viva la Lírica”). 2004: Il Mondo della Luna (Haydn), producción del Liceo, estrenada en el Teatre Lliure de Barcelona. Gianni Schicchi (Zita). Castellón. La Zorrita Astuta, (Janacek), (Lapak), Theater La Maestranza, Sevilla. 2003: La Cenerentola (Rossini), (Angelina), en Treviso (Italia). Amor brujo (Falla), Palma de Mallorca. ; Das Lied von der Erde (Malher). 2002: La Sonámbula (Bellini), (Teresa), Palau de la Música de Valencia. Moisés und Aaron, (Schömberg), (Ein Kranke), Festival de Música de Granada. 2001: La Flauta mágica (W.A. Mozart), (Segunda Dama), Palau de la Música de Valencia. Los Cuentos de Hoffman, (Offenbach), (Nicklaus), Palau de la Música de Valencia.

Teachers mains with have performed

Weikert Ralph; Khamal Khan; Manuel Galduf; Arturo Tamayo; Enrique García Asensio; Edmond Colomer; Maximiliano Stefanelli; Giancarlo Andreetta; Josep Caballé; Fernando Álvarez; Paúl Dombrecht; Josep Vicent; José Maria Collado; Ros Marbá; Lorin Maazel; Albert Zedda; Roberto Abbado.