RenéBarbera

Press

• La Traviata

  Opéra national de Paris

  Jan 2024 - Feb 2024

  • Il tenore René Barbera è stato un Alfredo Germont di grande qualità, con una bella voce, una proiezione adeguata e acuti perfetti. Non ha deluso al fianco di Sierra e Tézier, due vere stelle del firmamento lirico di oggi. [Translated] The tenor René Barbera was an Alfredo Germont of great quality, with a beautiful voice, adequate projection and perfect high notes. He did not disappoint alongside Sierra and Tézier, two true stars of today's opera firmament.

    • L'Ape Musicale
    • 25 January 2024

  • René Barbera campe un Alfredo tout aussi jeune, tendre et charnel. D’une aisance déconcertante sur l’ensemble de sa tessiture et capable des plus délicates nuances piano, le ténor caresse et le texte et la mélodie. [Translated] René Barbera portrays an Alfredo who is just as young, tender and carnal. With disconcerting ease across his entire range and capable of the most delicate piano nuances, the tenor caresses both the text and the melody.

    • Bachtrack
    • 23 January 2024

  • René Barbera est un Alfredo Germont à la hauteur de sa partenaire. Si le ténor américano-mexicain dresse un portait vocal plus que convaincant du jeune amoureux, c’est surtout son incarnation du personnage qui touche au cœur. Bonhomme, tendre, sensible, juste, voilà un jeune homme qui ne mérite pas son malheur. Le chanteur est à l’avenant avec une maîtrise subtile de la ligne, un vrai sens des nuances et des aigus soutenus. Le couple qu’il forme avec Nadine Sierra est magique et magnifique. [Translated] René Barbera is an Alfredo Germont worthy of his partner. If the Mexican-American tenor paints a more than convincing vocal portrait of the young lover, it is above all his incarnation of the character that touches the heart. Good-natured, tender, sensitive, fair, here is a young man who does not deserve his misfortune. The singer is impressive with a subtle mastery of the line, a real sense of nuance and sustained high notes. The couple he forms with Nadine Sierra is magical and magnificent.

    • Première Loge
    • 22 January 2024

  • René Barbera incarne Alfredo de son timbre vaillant et chaleureux avec équilibre. La simplicité touchante de son phrasé s’épanouit notamment dans le candide passage de vie à la campagne. [Translated] René Barbera embodies Alfredo with his valiant and warm tone with balance. The touching simplicity of his phrasing blossoms particularly in the candid passage of life in the countryside.

    • Olyrix
    • 21 January 2024

  • Alfredo è interpretato da René Barbera, che offre una linea di canto omogenea, caratterizzata da un legato impeccabile e suoni che trovano particolare lucentezza nel registro acuto; forte di una emissione ben controllata, il cantante si dimostra efficace anche nella tessitura centrale. Le caratteristiche di tenore lirico dal timbro chiaro e squillante ne fanno un ottimo interprete, che risulta efficace sia nei momenti appassionati che nelle carezzevoli mezzevoci del duetto “Parigi, o cara”. [Translated] Alfredo is played by René Barbera , who offers a homogeneous singing line, characterized by an impeccable legate and sounds that find particular brilliance in the high register; thanks to a well-controlled emission, the singer also proves effective in the central tessitura. The characteristics of a lyric tenor with a clear and ringing timbre make him an excellent interpreter, who is credible both in the passionate moments and in the caressing half-voices of the duet "Parigi, o cara".

    • Conessi all'Opera
    • 13 February 2024

  • René Barbera took on the role of Alfredo with a compelling mix of ardor and innocence. His tenor voice, rich in texture, perfectly conveyed Alfredo’s passionate love and anguish. Barbera’s performance of “De’ miei bollenti spiriti” highlighted his lyrical capabilities and emotional expressiveness, drawing the audience into Alfredo’s hopeful yet doomed love story. The chemistry between Barbera and Sierra added a tangible intensity to their duets, notably in “Parigi, o cara,” where their harmonious blend captured the tragic beauty of their characters’ relationship.

    • Opera Wire
    • 05 March 2024

• Adelaide di Borgogna

  Rossini Opera Festival

  Aug 2023

  • La voce di René Barbera si è trasformata, ha acquisito robustezza e volume ed è più ricca di armonici, mantenendo però la facilità della salita all’acuto e l’agilità delle colorature: un ottimo Adelberto." "René Barbera’s voice has been transformed, has gained robustness and volume and is richer in harmonics, while retaining the ease of rising to the treble and the agility of coloraturas: an excellent Adelberto.

    • Mauro Mariani, Il giornale della musica
    • 18 August 2023

• Der Rosenkavalier

  The Metropolitan Opera House

  Apr 2023

  • Resplendent in a white suit, René Barbera delivered the Italian Singer’s love song with tight focus and just a touch of weepy Caruso parody, no doubt exactly as Strauss intended.

    • David Wright, New York Classical Review
    • 16 April 2023

• Falstaff

  La Fenice

  Nov 2022

  • Per René Barbera, la parte di Fenton è una specie di passeggiata. Abituato a ruoli ben più ardui sotto il profilo del virtuosismo e dell’estensione, il tenore messicano-americano ha gioco facile nel far valere la piacevolezza di un timbro da lirico-leggero, una linea di canto impeccabile, sempre sul fiato, e un appropriato gioco di chiaroscuri." "For René Barbera, Fenton’s part is something of a cakewalk. Accustomed to much more arduous roles in terms of virtuosity and range, the Mexican-American tenor has easy play in asserting the pleasantness of a lyric-light timbre, an impeccable line of singing, always on the breath, and an appropriate chiaroscuro game.

    • Roberto Mori, Connessi all’opera
    • 18 November 2022

• Il barbiere di Siviglia

  L'Opéra national de Paris

  • René Barbera , who already shone as a Count in this in loco production in 2014 and 2018, also begins gently, but already with an intensity of timbre and solar colors, and to better leap from the first great phrasing towards a projection beautiful cantiste (with treble as well unchecked as the small pebbles he throws on the shutters of Rosine). The Mediterranean (albeit modern) colors of this set are found in his voice, even for the tightrope walker transitions – falling on his feet – and the intensity of his held highs. The public applauds him so much that he has him saluted, twice, even before the end of the score.

    • Charles Arden, Olyrix