EMILIO PONS
Since his professional debut in at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Emilio Pons has performed internationally at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Theater St Gallen in Switzerland; the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre de Champs-Elysées, in Paris, and Opéra de Metz, in France; the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival, the Salzburg State Theater and the WKO in Austria; Munich's Prinzregenten Theater, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, the Magravial Opera House in Bayreuth, and the theaters of the cities of Augsburg, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Coburg, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Magdeburg, Regensburg and Wuppertal, in Germany; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, De Doelen’s Concert Hall, and the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, in the Netherlands; the Royal Opera, Copenhagen,Denmark; the Vlaamse Opera, Ghent & Antwerp, Belgium; Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg; the Nordnorsk Opera in Norway; Vilnius City Opera, in Lithuania; Opera Siam in Bangkok, Thailand; in Singapore with the National Symphony Orchestra; as well as Compañía Nacional de Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Teatro Julio Mayor in Bogota, Colombia, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, in Chile and Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, and New York’s Carnegie Hall, in the USA amongst many others.
Since founding the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy in Germany in 2014,
Emilio Pons has primarily focused on developing academic, networking and performance opportunities for emerging opera singers.
He now has brought his artistic vision to North America through the newly founded New York Vocal Arts Academy.
Teaching has become the main, albeit not the sole focus of Emilio Pons’ endeavors.
His direct, disciplined approach brings a wealth of knowledge stemming from his own, vast, multifaceted international academic background and professional experience both as a performer, as an artistic consultant, and in his capacity as director of the organizations he has founded.
As a guest lecturer, Dr. Pons has given master classes internationally at the Opera Studio of the Stuttgart Opera, McGill University in Montreal, the Opera Studio of Ópera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Escuela Superior de Música of Monterrey, Centro de las Artes of San Luis Potosí in Mexico, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, as well as Indiana University, Bloomington, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Kentucky State University in Lexington, University of Central Florida, and Ohio State University in the United States of America.
Thanks to his background as an attorney, Emilio Pons worked for many years as an artist manager, brokering contracts for singers, conductors and stage directors in theaters across Europe and Latin America. Throughout his tenure at SGIMFA and now at NYVAA, he has organized over 600 auditions for casting directors of various world-renowned theaters and festivals including the Vienna State Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real de Madrid, Oper Zürich, Stuttgart Opera, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, etc.
Emilio Pons holds four graduate degrees: both a master’s and a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music, an artist diploma in piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, and a degree as attorney-at-law (summa cum laude) from Universidad Iberoamericana.
A highly-skilled polyglot, he is fluent in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Russian.
Few, if any other, voice teachers know the opera business as thoroughly as Emilio Pons, and even fewer can sing, play the piano and coach, and provide diction guidance authoritatively in six languages while also holding the highest academic credentials expected from a pedagogue.
Dr. Pons is a dual citizen of Mexico and Germany. He is a member of the European Cultural Parliament. He is an outspoken conservative, and an associate member of the New York Young Republican Club.
Concert and recital repertoire remain Emilio Pons’ preferred vehicle of artistic expression.
Together with pianists Asiya Korepanova and Ilya Ramlav, his most recent endeavors have included performing all three of Schubert’s monumental cycles Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang.
Repertoire
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Battistelli, Giorgio:
Richmond, Richard III
Beethoven, Ludwig van:
Jaquino, Fidelio
Bernstein, Leonard:
Candide, Candide*
Bizet, Georges:
Remendado, Carmen
Britten, Benjamin:
Captain Vere, Billy Budd*
Mad Woman, Curlew RiverFlute/Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bob Boles, Peter Grimes
Prologue/Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw*Cavalli, Francesco:
Egeo/Sole, Giasone
Debussy, Claude
Pelléas, Pelléas et Melissande*
Donizetti, Gaetano:
Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore
Arturo, Lucia di Lammermoor
Normanno, Lucia di Lammermoor
Floyd, Carlisle
Elder Gleaton, Susannah
Gluck, Christoph W.
Admète*, Alceste
Iphigénie en Tauride, Pylades
Granados, Enrique
Fernando, Goyescas (Granados)
Händel, Georg Friedrich
Acis, Acis and Galatea*
Oronte, AlcinaSesto, Giulio Cesare
Grimoaldo, Rodelinda
Bajazzet, Tamerlano*Tempo, Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno*
Hasse, Johann Adolf:
Il Padre, Piramo e Tisbe
Henze, Hans Werner:
Hypollit, Phaedra
Leoš Janáček
Števa Buryja, Jenůfa*Léhar, Franz
Danilo, Die Lustige Witwe*
Leoncavallo, Ruggerio:
Beppe/Arlecchin, Pagliacci
Martinů, Bohuslav
Le commissaire/le facteur, Juliette ou la clé des songes
Serge/Adolphe, Die drei Wünsche
Monteverdi, Claudio
Orfeo, Orfeo*
Ulisse, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Nerone, L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus:
Ferrando, Cosí fan tutte+
Belmonte*/Pedrillo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni
Idomeneo*/Idamante*, Idomeneo
Arbace, IdomeneoIl Podestà, La finta giardiniera
Lucio Silla, Lucio Silla
Alessandro, Il Re Pastore
Tamino, Die ZauberflötePoulenc, Francis:
Le Chevalier de la Force, Dialogues des Carmélites
Porsile, Giuseppe:
Spartaco, Spartaco
Prokofiev, Sergey
Antonio, Betrothal in a Monastery*
Trouffaldino, L’amour des trois oranges
Puccini, Giacomo:
Prunier, La Rondine
Pong, Turandot
Purcell, Herny:
Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
Gvidon, The Tale of the Tsar Saltan*
Likov, The Tsar's Bride
Rossini, Gioacchino:
Il Conte di Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia+
Schrecker, Franz
Menaldo Negroni, Die Gezeichneten
Shostakovich, Dmitry
Zinovy Borisovich, Lady Macbeth
of the Mtsensk District
Strauss, Johann
Eisenstein* / Alfred*, Die Fledermaus
Strauss, Richard
Scaramuccio, Ariadne auf Naxos
Erster Jude, Salome
Narraboth, Salome
Stravinsky, Igor
Tom Rakewell, The Rake’s Progress
Thomas, Ambroise
Laertes, Mignon
Verdi, Giuseppe
Malcolm, Macbeth
Cassio, Otello*
Tchaikovsky, Piotr I.
Lensky, Yevgenij Onegin
Wagner, Richard
Steuermann, Der fliegende Holländer
Froh, Das Rheingold*
Loge, Das Rheingold*David, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg*
Walter von der Vogelweide, TannhäuserWier, Judith
Walther/Hugo/Old Woman,
Blond Eckbert
*suggested repertoire / + retired repertoire
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Bach, Johann Sebastian:
Johannes-Passion (Evangelist)
Magnificat
Matthäus-Passion (Tenor arias)
Beethoven, Ludwig van
9e Symphonie
Bruckner, Anton
Te Deum
F minor mass
Händel, Georg F.
The Messiah
Haydn, Joseph
Die Jahreszeiten
Die Schöpfung
Nelsson Mass
Mendelssohn, Felix
Paulus
Ramírez, Ariel
Misa Criolla
Rossini, Gioacchino
Stabat Mater+
Schütz, Heinrich
Musikalische Exequien
Strauss, Richard
Deutsche Motette, Op. 62
