Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she studied at Instituto superior de arte del Teatro Colón and privately with Inés Dupen and Horacio Amauri. She also studied Orchestra Conducting at the Universidad Católica Argentina.
For 10 years she has been developing her career in Europe singing in France (Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Clermont Ferrand, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Spain (Teatro Maestranza in Seville, Ópera de Las Palmas, Teatro Real, Festival de Ópera de La Coruña, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatros del Canal, etc.), Germany (Gärtnerplatztheater, Múnich, Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Osnabrück), Ireland (Wexford Opera Festival) and United Kingdom (London Händel Festival), and also in Uruguay (Teatro Solís), Argentina (Teatro Avenida), Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Bahrein, etc. where she has been singing under de baton of conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Pedro Halffter, Giacomo Sagripanti, Alan Curtis, Gunter Neuhold, Martin Brabbins, Leonardo García Alarcón, Patrick Fournillier, etc.
In the 16/17 and 17/18 seasons she has been a member of the Theater Kiel ensemble (Germany) where she sang roles as Gilda (Rigoletto), Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Zdenka (Arabella), Oscar (Un Ballo in maschera), Woglinde (Rheingold and Götterdämmerung), Waldvogel (Siegfried) and Francesca (Francesca da Rimini-Rachmaninov).
Since the 19/20 season, she is member of the Staatsoper Hannover ensemble, and will sing roles as Eudoxie in La juive, Morgana in Alcina, Madame Mao in Nixon in China and Isabella in Märchen im Grand Hotel (Paul Abraham).
Her engagements this season include Così fan tutte, Carmen, Rigoletto, Der Vampyr and a new production of Midsummer Night's Dream in Hannover.
She has been awarded 2nd Prize at the International Singing Competition in Logroño (Spain), 3rd prize at the International Singing Competition in Zamora (Spain) and she has also been a finalist at the Luis Marino Singing Contest in 2007 and the Concours de chant de Marmande 2008 (France). She got two scholarships offered by Maestro Dalton Baldwin at the Francisco Viñas’ Competition 2008.
Date of last modification: October 2021
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For 10 years she has been developing her career in Europe singing in France (Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Clermont Ferrand, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Spain (Teatro Maestranza in Seville, Ópera de Las Palmas, Teatro Real, Festival de Ópera de La Coruña, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatros del Canal, etc.), Germany (Gärtnerplatztheater, Múnich, Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Osnabrück), Ireland (Wexford Opera Festival) and United Kingdom (London Händel Festival), and also in Uruguay (Teatro Solís), Argentina (Teatro Avenida), Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Bahrein, etc. where she has been singing under de baton of conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Pedro Halffter, Giacomo Sagripanti, Alan Curtis, Gunter Neuhold, Martin Brabbins, Leonardo García Alarcón, Patrick Fournillier, etc.
In the 16/17 and 17/18 seasons she has been a member of the Theater Kiel ensemble (Germany) where she sang roles as Gilda (Rigoletto), Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Zdenka (Arabella), Oscar (Un Ballo in maschera), Woglinde (Rheingold and Götterdämmerung), Waldvogel (Siegfried) and Francesca (Francesca da Rimini-Rachmaninov).
Since the 19/20 season, she is member of the Staatsoper Hannover ensemble, and will sing roles as Eudoxie in La juive, Morgana in Alcina, Madame Mao in Nixon in China and Isabella in Märchen im Grand Hotel (Paul Abraham).
Her engagements this season include Così fan tutte, Carmen, Rigoletto, Der Vampyr and a new production of Midsummer Night's Dream in Hannover.
She has been awarded 2nd Prize at the International Singing Competition in Logroño (Spain), 3rd prize at the International Singing Competition in Zamora (Spain) and she has also been a finalist at the Luis Marino Singing Contest in 2007 and the Concours de chant de Marmande 2008 (France). She got two scholarships offered by Maestro Dalton Baldwin at the Francisco Viñas’ Competition 2008.
Date of last modification: October 2021
It cannot be altered without permission. Please destroy any previous biographical material
2022-2023 Performances
FESTIVE CONCERT
10 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
OPENING CONCERT
11 September 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
ALCINA
17 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
23 September2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
29 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
07 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
15 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES
08 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
26 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
10 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
13 November 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DIE ZIRKUSPRINZESSIN BY EMMERICH KÁLMÁN
25 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
30 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
10 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
16December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
18 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
31 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 January 2023 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
27 January 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
04 February 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
04 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
17 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
LA JUIVE
01 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
13 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
16 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
29 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
NIXON IN CHINA
03 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
25 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
28 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
02 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
05 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
07 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
10 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
OPENING CONCERT
11 September 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
ALCINA
17 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
23 September2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
29 September 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
07 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
15 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES
08 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
26 October 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
10 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
13 November 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DIE ZIRKUSPRINZESSIN BY EMMERICH KÁLMÁN
25 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
30 November 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
10 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
16December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
18 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
31 December 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 January 2023 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
27 January 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
04 February 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
04 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
17 May 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
LA JUIVE
01 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
13 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
16 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
29 April 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
NIXON IN CHINA
03 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
25 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
28 June 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
02 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
05 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
07 July 2023 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
2021-2022 Performances
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
30 September 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
17 October 2021 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
31 October 2021 16:00 Staatsoper Hannover
CARMEN
11 December 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
RIGOLETTO
27 February 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DER VAMPYR
25 March 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
17 May 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
30 September 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
06 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
08 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
14 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
17 October 2021 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
22 October 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
31 October 2021 16:00 Staatsoper Hannover
CARMEN
11 December 2021 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
RIGOLETTO
27 February 2022 18:30 Staatsoper Hannover
DER VAMPYR
25 March 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
17 May 2022 19:30 Staatsoper Hannover
Gallery
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Nixon in China
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Märchen im Grand Hotel
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Reviews
FIDELIO. Teatro de la Maestranza 2017
"Exceptional Mercedes Arcuri, Marzelline, a soprano who rarely fails to please. She faced complex ensemble numbers in which she ended up imposing herself with delicate phrasing and a resoundingly beautiful timbre". Ismael G. Cabral (El Correo)
"Likewise, Mercedes Arcuri's voice, with its attractive timbre and sensual lyricism, fitted like a glove to the needs of her 'Marzelline'. José Amador Morales (Codalario)
"The voices brought us more joy (...) and above all that of Mercedes Arcuri. She was here Valkyrie, Voglinde in "El ocaso" and Clorinda in "La cenerentola", she is a coloratura soprano, and nevertheless she captivated us with a beautiful lyric tone, which grew with her volume, and ended up tasting a bit too little". Carlos Tarín (ABC)
"She was equally successful in the quartets she performed with the other soloists in the cast, among whom the soprano Mercedes Arcuri as Marzelline and the bass Wilhelm Schwinghammer as Rocco stood out. The former, despite not having so much weight in the plot, acquitted herself very well in her roles, perfectly incarnating the jailer's infatuated daughter". Gonzalo Roldán Herencia (Opera World)
"Mercedes Arcuri put lyrical charm in an aria crushed by a plain accompaniment and resisted with aplomb and good projection her difficult ensemble numbers". Pablo J. Vayón (Diario de Sevilla)
"The tragicomic pair of lovers, Marzelline and Jaquino, worked with solvency, especially the Argentinian soprano Mercedes Arcuri, knowing how to elevate the dramatic weakness of her character with a stimulating assumption of the beauty of the composer's postulates which, from Jean Nicolas Bouilly's story in praise of conjugal love, the substantial theme of Fidelio, achieves the prodigy of making ideas such as dignity, freedom, responsibility and respect sound as substantial elements of the new man who became, among others, the enlightened aesthetic-philosophical principle of Sturm und Drang (storm and impetus) which had such transcendence in romanticism. José Antonio Cantón (El Mundo)
"Likewise, Mercedes Arcuri's voice, with its attractive timbre and sensual lyricism, fitted like a glove to the needs of her 'Marzelline'. José Amador Morales (Codalario)
"The voices brought us more joy (...) and above all that of Mercedes Arcuri. She was here Valkyrie, Voglinde in "El ocaso" and Clorinda in "La cenerentola", she is a coloratura soprano, and nevertheless she captivated us with a beautiful lyric tone, which grew with her volume, and ended up tasting a bit too little". Carlos Tarín (ABC)
"She was equally successful in the quartets she performed with the other soloists in the cast, among whom the soprano Mercedes Arcuri as Marzelline and the bass Wilhelm Schwinghammer as Rocco stood out. The former, despite not having so much weight in the plot, acquitted herself very well in her roles, perfectly incarnating the jailer's infatuated daughter". Gonzalo Roldán Herencia (Opera World)
"Mercedes Arcuri put lyrical charm in an aria crushed by a plain accompaniment and resisted with aplomb and good projection her difficult ensemble numbers". Pablo J. Vayón (Diario de Sevilla)
"The tragicomic pair of lovers, Marzelline and Jaquino, worked with solvency, especially the Argentinian soprano Mercedes Arcuri, knowing how to elevate the dramatic weakness of her character with a stimulating assumption of the beauty of the composer's postulates which, from Jean Nicolas Bouilly's story in praise of conjugal love, the substantial theme of Fidelio, achieves the prodigy of making ideas such as dignity, freedom, responsibility and respect sound as substantial elements of the new man who became, among others, the enlightened aesthetic-philosophical principle of Sturm und Drang (storm and impetus) which had such transcendence in romanticism. José Antonio Cantón (El Mundo)
FARINELLI, EL CASTRATO DEL REY FELIPE. Teatros del Canal de Madrid 2016
"... and with the excellent soprano Mercedes Arcuri, who showed agile singing and fullness of faculties". Isabel Imaz (Revista Ópera Actual)
"... and in their vocal performances three singers take turns, the countertenors Filippo Mineccia and Konstatin Derri and the soprano Mercedes Arcuri, each one more successful in their interventions. José Catalán Deus (Periodista Digital)
"... with the soprano Mercedes Arcuri in a display of astonishing resources and beautiful timbre with a surprising coloratura". Francisco García-Rosado (Opera World)
"... and in their vocal performances three singers take turns, the countertenors Filippo Mineccia and Konstatin Derri and the soprano Mercedes Arcuri, each one more successful in their interventions. José Catalán Deus (Periodista Digital)
"... with the soprano Mercedes Arcuri in a display of astonishing resources and beautiful timbre with a surprising coloratura". Francisco García-Rosado (Opera World)
Interviews
La Provincia - March 2015