Pedro Miguel Nunes
Pedro Miguel Nunes, baritone, has a Licentiate Degree in Chant (ESMAE – IPP) and in Portuguese Studies (FCSH), a Master in Performance – Chant (University of Évora) and in Medieval History (FCSH) and a PHD Doctorate in Music and Musicology – Performance in Chant (University of Évora). In artistic and improvement terms, he worked with great opera singers like Montserrat Caballé, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Francisco Lazaro and Yvonne Minton and also with renowned teachers such as Helmut Lips (Stuttgart High School of Music), Laura Sarti and Lorraine Nubar (Julliard School). Since the last few years, he has working regularly with the great Portuguese opera soprano – Elsa Saque. He sang major roles of Bel Canto and Romantic Opera such as Toreador (Carmen), Valentin (Faust), Rodrige (Don Carlo), Iago (Otello), Conde Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Conde Tomsky (Dama de Espadas), Príncipe Yeletski (Dama de Espadas), Oneguin (Evgeni Oneguin) and Fígaro (Barbeiro de Sevilha) and important roles of Baroque and Classical Opera such as Rinaldo (Händel), Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) and several mozartian characters like Papageno (Flauta Mágica), Bartolo (Bodas de Fígaro), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) and Fígaro (Bodas de Fígaro). He is also in love with Oratory and Sacred Music in general and he sang major works like the Stabat Mater of Vivaldi, Rossini and Pergolesi, Nisi Dominus of Vivaldi, arias and recitatives of Bach’s Passions, Bach’s Magnificat, Lamentations of Christoph Bach, Salve Regina in Fm of Pergolesi, Mozart’s Requiem and the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, etc. During is artistic career, he sang all over Europe, specially in France, Spain, Russia, Italy and in some of the most important Classical Music Festivals. In Portugal, he founded the Ensemble Vox Angelis with which he has performed over 400 Concerts in the best Portuguese concerts halls and he’s working with more than 140 Portuguese Municipalities.
Nunes, Pedro Miguel, “A Criação do Barítono Verdiano: um caso paradigmático na performance lírica do século XIX”, comunicação e artigo publicado no VI Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música (ENIM2016), organizado pela SPIM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música) e pela Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Novembro de 2016.
Nunes, Pedro Miguel, “ O Coral Va Pensiero e a sua conversão em Canção Revolucionária contra a ocupação austríaca do norte de Itália “, comunicação e artigo publicado na Conferência Internacional Canção de Protesto e Mudança Social, organizado pelo INET – FCSH, Instituto de História Contemporânea – FCSH, Observatório da Canção de Protesto, Câmara Municipal de Grândola, Associação José Afonso, Junho 2016.
Nunes, Pedro Miguel, “ A Criação da Figura do Diabo na Ópera Romântica: a construção de Iago em Giuseppe Verdi, um processo de demonologia “ – comunicação e artigo publicado no III Encuentro IberoAmericano de Jóvenes Musicólogos, organizado pela Tagus Atlanticus, CESEM (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas), Conservatório Superior de Música Manuel Castillo (Sevilha) e pela Universidade de Sevilha, Actas do Congresso, Março 2016.
Nunes, Pedro Miguel, “Música no Paraíso”, Programa de Autor realizado pelo próprio para a Rádio Antena 2, baseado em 13 episódios distintos sobre Música Sacra: Música Bizantina; Canto Gregoriano; Ars Antiqua e Ars Nova; Hildegard von Bingen; Música Cristã do Renascimento; Palestrina; Barroco na Música Sacra; Bach; Música Cristã e o Iluminismo; Romantismo Cristão; Música Ortodoxa Russa; Gospel; Música Cristã do Pós-Modernismo; Lisboa, 2015 (todos os episódios podem ser consultados em: www.youtube.com/user/voxangelis).
Elsa Saque (c)
In my PHD Dissertation, I studied and analysed, in a historical, dramatic and musical perspective, one of the greatest contributions of Verdi and his operas for the History of Music – the Creation of the Verdi Baritone. This voice, conceptually new, able to be heard with a Symphony Orchestra, has a dark melancholy in the low notes and a dramatic spinto in the high notes, inherited the tradition of the Tenore Dramatico with the more rounded voice. Mixture of Basso Cantante with Tenore Dramatico, this voice was the preferred timbre of the composer, a masculine voice with character, belligerent and aggressive, but, also, able to convey feelings of nobility, pride, tenderness and fragility. In this investigation, I worked, specifically, five Verdian Baritones and the creation of their operas – Nabucco, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Iago (Otello) and Falstaff – in a historical perspective, musical and dramatic construction, enriching the partial and unarticulated studies that exist on these characters.
Music in the Modern Period