Originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa, the Mexican Alonso Sicairos León is a tenor of the opera "La Traviata» by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, by the West Bay Opera from San Francisco, Calif.
How did you realize you could be an opera singer? It's one of the first questions you ask yourself when you talk to him.
A boy who did theater and liked to sing with his friends never thought he would end up playing one of the main characters in the most important opera of all time, this is "La Traviata" or in Spanish, something like the wayward one.
«La Traviata» was first performed on March 6, 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, and was not very successful. However, after a second revision of the story, the performance was a great success.
In the three-act opera, Alonso portrays Alfredo Germont, who is always faithful to the love of Violetta Valéry, a courtesan who is prevented from following Germont's love because, according to the social standards of the time in which it is represented, originally in the 17th century and later updated in the historical representation of the 19th century, the relationship was impossible.
After a series of misfortunes, Germont and the beautiful Violetta leave Paris to live in the country. However, since they don't have enough money, Violetta decides to sell all the furniture to get some money. Germont, upon finding out, tries to make amends. The complicated part comes when Violetta's father forbids the relationship due to the social repercussions that his courtesan daughter has put them through.
What is it like to play the role of a lover, Alfredo Germont, who is part of the most performed opera in the world? Peninsula 360 Press asked him.
Alonso laughs as he says that in his early days he played at singing opera at youth parties and that it was a friend who, when things were getting serious, encouraged him to take up singing professionally.
The Tenor has been part of the most exclusive repertoires in the world of opera, such as the character of Rinuccio in "Gianni Schicci" a comic opera in one act with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto in Italian by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917 and 1918.
He has also appeared as Nemorino in Donizetti's Elixir of Love, a humorous operatic melodrama in two acts, and as Luigi in Piccini's Il Tabarro, a one-act opera with music by Giacomo Puccini and an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami.
It is worth noting that La Traviata has only been performed at San Francisco's West Bay Opera eight times. However, there is still time to see Alonso Sicairos' spectacular operatic performance, as Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 will be the last performances.
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