Tenor
Biography
Born in Montevideo, Sebastián Ferrada began singing lessons in Chile while reading economics at the Universidad Católica, and moved to Milan in 2008 to study with Vincenzo Manno at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica and at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala. The title role of Puccini's Edgar, in Valladolid, opened his solo career in 2010; Manrico, Radamès, Don José and the tenor solo in Verdi's Requiem followed. Winning the ninth international Aida competition of the Fondazione Arena di Verona brought him Radamès at the Teatro Filarmonico there. His repertory has since taken in Pinkerton, Nemorino, Hoffmann, Alfredo, Calaf, Turiddu, Des Grieux, Ismaele, Arrigo, Riccardo, Pylades and Torbeno in I Shardana, at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, the Teatro Massimo Bellini, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Novaya Opera in Moscow and with the Shanghai Symphony. In January 2016 he sang in the Aida that State Opera Rousse brought to Augusta in Sicily with the Coro Lirico Siciliano, in Salvatore Russo's designs and beside Serena Cravana, Antonella Arena and Francesco Costa.