Catalan baritone Lluís Calvet i Pey is a finalist and winner of numerous prizes in the 2024 Concurso de Canto Tenor Viñas, including the Placido Domingo Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, and the Audience Prize. In the 2025-26 season he makes several house and role debuts: as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with Opera de Oviedo, his debut with Glyndebourne Opera, and Dancairo in Carmen with Teatro Real. He also sings Prunier in a recording of Puccini’s La rondine with Opera Rara and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Last season he joined the Staatsoper Hannover Ensemble where his roles included his debut as Silvio in Pagliacci, Mr. Kallenbach in Satyagraha, Schaunard in La bohème, several roles in Maria de Buenos Aires, along with reprise performances of the Huntsman in Rusalka.
Lluís is a finalist and winner of numerous prizes in the 2024 Concurso de Canto Tenor Viñas, including the Placido Domingo Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, and the Audience Prize. He was also a finalist in the 2023 Belvedere Singing Competition, and won second prize at the Concours de Cant les Corts de Barcelona singing competition. He has attended music workshops at Royaumont Abbey & Foundation with Stéphane Degout, Alain Planès, Christian Immler, Andreas Frese and Claire Thirion, and has received numerous awards, most recently the Eva Kleinitz Scholarship from Opera Europa.
He began his studies at the Conservatori Professional de Sabadell, was awarded the Young Promises scholarship by the Fundació de Música Ferrer-Salat to study for a singing degree at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu. He then joined the MA Opera course at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu, where his performances included Belcore in L’elisir d’amore. Lluís finished his undergraduate studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama at the David Seligman Opera School, and later was awarded a scholarship to complete his MA in Advanced Opera at the RWCMD by Clive Richards Foundation and John & John Foundation.
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