Ramon Vargas

A Short Biography

Ramon Vargas was born in Mexico City where the received his earliest musical training and sang in the Boys Choir of the Basilica de Guadalupe. He made his professional debut in 1983 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in Puccinis Il Tabarro. When he won the Enrico Caruso Tenor Competition in Milan in 1986, he moved to Austria to continue his studies.
In 1992 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut. Specializing in bel canto and subsequent romantic repertoire, he has appeared at the world's major opera houses and is one of the most acclaimed tenor of the day.

His repertoire so far includes e.g.

	Bellini	Elvino	La Sonnambula
	Donizetti	Edgardo	Lucia di Lammermoor
	Donizetti	Nemorino	L'Elisir d'Amore
	Massenet	Werther	Werther
	Offenbach	Hoffmann	Les Contes d'Hoffmann
	Puccini	Rodolfo	La Bohème
	Rossini	Don Ramiro	La Cenerentola
	Tschaikowsky	Lenski	Eugen Onegin
	Verdi	Duca	Rigoletto
	Verdi	Fenton	Falstaff
	Verdi	Alfredo	La Traviata
	Verdi	Riccardo	Un Ballo in Maschera

His CD recordings include:

	Bellini	I Capuleti e I Montecchi
	Bellini	Zaira
	Donizetti	La Favorita (in frz. Sprache)
	Massenet	Werther
	Rossini	Il Barbiere di Siviglia
	Rossini	Il Turco in Italia
	Rossini	La Scala di Seta
	Rossini	Maometto II
	Rossini	Tancredi
	Verdi	Falstaff
	Verdi	Otello
		Ramon Vargas singt Rossini & Donizetti
		Ramon Vargas singt Arien
		Christmas with Ramon Vargas
		Ramon Vargas singt mexikanische Lieder