Marc Sala was
born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1981. Since young age he studied in Conservatori del Liceu
with Eduard Giménez and in Conservatorio Superior de Valencia with Ana Luisa Chova. He took
courses and Master-classes with maestros Raúl Giménez, Antoni Ros-Marbá, Dalton
Baldwin, Giacomo Aragall, Carlos Chausson and Viorica Cortez. He studied
History of Art in the Universitat
Autònoma of Barcelona.
Sala offered concerts of Opera, Zarzuela and Lied in Milan, London, Tokyo,
Panama and Costa Rica. He also sung the solo tenor score in many choral
compositions, Mozart’s Requiem (KV 626) or Schubert’s Mass in G (D167).
In April 2004,
he made his stage debut with Mozart’s “Bastiano e Bastiana” in Milan and
Florence.
His repertoire include operas as: Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto, Traviata, L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, Lucia di Lammermoor… He also sings Zarzuela’s repertoire like “Luisa Fernanda” or “La Chulapona” by F. Moreno Torroba. He worked with music conductors such as Guerásim Voronkov, James Demby, Manuel Valdivieso, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Daniel Martinez.
In may 2011 he
did his debut as Duca di Mantova in
Verdi’s Rigoletto in Théâtre Roger Barat
in Herblay (Paris). The season before he was Tamino in “Die Zauberflöte” in the
same theather. In July 2010 he does his debut in Germany as Cléomène in
Rossini’s “Le Siège de Corinthe” in the prestigious Rossini Festival of Wilbad.
This production is recorded in CD by Naxos.
He won the
Special Price “Umberto Gentile” in the International Singing Competition
“Francesco Paolo Tosti”, celebrated in Ortona (Italy) in May 2004. In that same
contest he was also awarded the “International Exchange with Nara (Japan)”
price, consisting in a series of concerts in the main Japanese cities. He sung
in Tokyo, in the prestigious Music College of Osaka and at the Todaiji temple
in Nara.
