Pedro Pires
Tenor
A prized student of Costa Campos, born in Lisbon, Pedro Pires was soon seduced by the stage arts, and his youth was invested in studying the arts of music and acting. His academic years include the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais (Cascais Professional School of Theatre) under Carlos Avilez and the Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa (Lisbon National Conservatory of Music). In 2005, he enrolls at the “Primo Canto Associação Cultural” (Primo Canto Cultural Association), where he would regularly sing in public and where, under the tutelage of Costa Campos, he discovers the vocal, musical and scenic aesthetics that would mark his artistic life. His growth includes such milestones as a first solo recital at the Music Museum of Lisbon and his first professional experience in opera as a chorus member to Offenbach's Monsieur Choufleuri Restera Chez Lui in 2008. From then on, these early years include a variety of events which shape his evolution as a budding singer. Of particular note are his participation in the event “Evoking the Nelson Mandela Internation Day”, organised in September 2010, and an hommage to Federico Garcia Lorca, alongside Costa Campos and Tito Lívio, in a music and poetry presentation entitled “Verde que te quero verde”.From November 2010 until November 2022 he has sung weekly at the Vila Galé Ópera Hotel, also taking part in its initiatives “Opera Delicacies” and, in 2014/15, “Sunsets”. 2011 saw him also at the Hotel Avenida Palace in a musical season overseen by Costa Campos; from the various musical projects that would follow, he singles out the recitals in November 2013 at the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda (Ajuda National Palace) and June 2014 at the Palácio Foz (Foz Palace), where he embraces the most heroic characteristics of his vocality with arias from such operas as Un Ballo in Maschera, Lohengrin and Tosca. It is also in 2014 that he undertakes a class with Fiorenza Cossotto. August 2015 finds him a chorus member in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; November 2016 a chorus member for Carmen; and January 2016 - proudly - a chorus member for the Chorus of the Nacional São Carlos Opera House, where his participations include Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Nabucco (2016), as well as the entire 2017 season: Donizetti's Anna Bolena (Staging: Graham Vick; Lead soprano: Elena Mosuc), Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, Bernstein's Candide (concert version), Britten's Peter Grimes, Giordani's Inês de Castro, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Puccini'sTurandot (2017). Since that season he has also participated in Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ (2018) and Berstein's Chichester Psalms (2019).2024 would see him in Italy, concluding two Opera-Studios – for the Mascagni Academy and the Belcanto Academy. As a result of the former, has his debut as a soloist in the Goldoni Theatre in Livorno, playing Gherardo in Puccini's “Gianni Schicchi”; and the latter has him perform the dual role of Gherardo and Rinuccio in the same production of the opera.
