Emiliano Barragàn-Gèant
Venezuelan lyric-baritone Emiliano Barragàn-Gèant began to study piano at the age of 12. After finishing his studies at the conservatory Juan José Landaeta in Caracas he moved to Canada to study piano with Gabriela Montero and to do a bachelors degree at McGill University in Montréal. In 2000 he began to study opera singing at McGill universtity with Winston Purdy. A few months later he made his operatic debut singing Figaro from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in the Centre Piere Peladeaux in Montreal. Since then he has sung the roles of Don Giovanni from Mozart's Don Giovanni (Munich), Escamillo from Bizet's Carmen (Montreal), Ben from Menotti's The Thelephone (Prince Edward Island), Belcore from Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore (Miami) among others. He won the Constance Weldon Prize to sponsor his studies of operatic singing at Miami University in 2005. In 2007 he moved to London after winning a full scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Venezuela to complete a Masters degree in opera performance at the Royal College of Music.He has appeared in numerous ocasions as a recitalist at the Handel House Museum in London. Most recently he was invited by the ensemble "L\'arte del Mondo" to sing the solos of Messiah at the Händel Festspiele in Cologne and Halle in Germany, in 2010.
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