The Argentinian tenor Juan Francisco Gatell appears regularly at leading opera houses worldwide, among them La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Paris Opéra, the Los Angeles Opera, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the New National Theatre in Tokyo and the Salzburg Festival.
He has worked with conductors such as Roberto Abbado, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniele Rustioni and Alberto Zedda, and with directors including Hugo De Ana, Michael Haneke, Michele Mariotti, Damiano Michieletto, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi and Graham Vick.
Recent engagements have included Fenton (Falstaff) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra national de Lyon and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Gomatz in Mozart’s Zaide at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at La Monnaie in Brussels, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Giasone in Mayr’s Medea in Corinto at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and Orphée (Orphée et Euridice) at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
In the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons he has made several important role debuts, including as Admète (Alceste) in Rome, Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride) at the Zurich Opera House and at the Olympia Music Theatre in Athens, Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier) at La Monnaie, Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Prunier (La rondine) in Zurich, Nemorino at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Don Luis in Tomás Marco’s Tenorio in Madrid.
Other roles which he has performed on stage include Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), the Rossini roles of Belfiore (Il viaggio a Reims), Idreno (Semiramide), Paolo Erisso (Maometto II) and Rodrigo (La donna del lago) and Donizetti’s Ernesto (Don Pasquale).
In 2015 Juan Francisco Gatell was awarded the Premio Aureliano Pertile.
