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The Breazilian tenor, Flávio Leite, obtained his Master of Music degree Music from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; and his postgraduate degree from the Conservatório Superior del Liceu, in Barcelona
With a 20-year professional career, Flávio Leite has accumulated a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda to Alban Berg's Lulu (April 2012) developed on the main Brazilian and Latin American stages. He has already been Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Ferrando in W.A. Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Ottavio in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Conte d'Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (May 2009), Don Ramiro in Cenerentola, Tonio in La Fille du Regiment, Beppe in Rita, Camille in Die lustige Witwe, Pong in Turandot, Mozart in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, (September-October 2016), Chevalier de la Force in Francis Poulenc's Le dialogue des Carmélites (April-May 2011), Professor in A Raposinha Astuta, Anatol in Vanessa, among others, accumulating until now 57 characters in 8 different languages already in the repertoire.
With special attention to operas by contemporary Brazilian composers, in recent years Flávio Leite has given world premieres of the operas Dulcinéia e Trancoso and Ópera do Mambembe Encantado by Eli-Eri Moura, O Menino e a Liberdade by Ronaldo Miranda, O Dilettante by João Guilherme Ripper, O Perigo da Arte by Tim Rescala, A Estranha and O Quatrilho, by Vagner Cunha and participated in the award-winning modern version of Heitor Villa-Lobos' last opera, A Menina das Nuvens (September 2009; August-November 2015).
In the 2021 season, Flávio Leite sang Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe alongside André Carrara in the chamber music season of OSPA and of the Bell'Anima Soirees, an Easter concert of the Bach-Brazil Series (March 2021) and a Handel Opera Gala with OSPA (August 2021) conducted by Fernando Cordella. He gave the world premieres of the works A Paixão de Dante by Vagner Cunha and O Engenheiro by Tim Rescala at Teatro São Pedro e Viramundo - Uma Ópera Contemporânea, at Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte. He also scenically directed the Brazilian premiere of the opera O Acordo Perfeito by Adolphe Adam with OSPA.
Flávio Leite has sung under the conductors of Luiz Fernando Malheiro, Roberto Duarte, Silvio Viegas, Marcelo de Jesus, Fábio Mechetti, Carlos Alberto Vieu, Enrique Ricci, Vitor Hugo Toro, Alessandro Sangiorgi, Evandro Mattè, Massimiliano Carraro and the stage directors André Heller- Lopes, William Pereira, Jorge Takla, Gustavo Tambascio, Vincent Boussard, Robert Driver, Ron Daniel, Gerald Thomas, among others.
Flávio Leite also develops a wide activity as a chamber musician and soloist in oratories and symphonic works such as Magnificat (BWV 243), Coffee Cantata (BWV 211) and Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) by J.S. Bach; Messiah by George Frideric Handel; The Creation by J. Haydn; Requiem by W.A. Mozart and José Maurício Nunes Garcia; Symphony No. 9 and Choral Fantasy by L.v. Beethoven; Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini; Messa di Gloria by Puccini; Carmina Burana by Orff; Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten; and Le Roi David by Arthur Honegger with the main Brazilian conductors and orchestras.
Flávio Leite is one of the founders of Companhia de Ópera do Rio Grande do Sul, substitute professor of singing at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas and Pedagogical Director of Ópera Estúdio da OSPA. He is currently a substitute professor of singing at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas. He currently lives in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
