Iván López-Reynoso
Iván López Reynoso possesses a musicianship and a solid temperament proved in numerous leading ensembles in Mexico, Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Peru, Oman, Japan, the United States and Italy. His collaborations extend to some of the most relevant artists such as Bryn Terfel, Ildar Abdrazakov, Javier Camarena, Alessandro Corbelli, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ramón Vargas, Rolando Villazón, Irina Lungu, John Osborn, Franz Hawlata, Paolo Bordogna, Ute Lemper, Augustin Hadelich, Michael Barenboim, Yulianna Avdeeva, Gabriela Montero, Jorge Federico Osorio or Alex Klein.
He has conducted the Philharmonia Zürich, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Oviedo Filarmonía, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, among others, in theaters like the Opernhaus Zürich (Bellini’s Il Pirata), the Santa Fe Opera (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville (Mozart’s Così fan tutte), Oper im Steinbruch (Verdi’s Aïda), The Dallas Opera (Verdi’s La Traviata), The Atlanta Opera (Verdi’s Macbeth) and ABAO Bilbao Opera (Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore).
A gifted opera conductor, Mtro. López Reynoso made his opera debut in 2010 at the age of 20 with Le nozze di Figaro. This was only the first of a list of more than 50 operas, including Aïda, Der fliegende Holländer, Carmen, La bohème, The Rake’s Progress, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, La clemenza di Tito, Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, Madama Butterfly, La cenerentola, Il turco in Italia, Otello, Macbeth, Anna Bolena, Carmen, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto, Werther, Tosca, Don Carlo, Hänsel und Gretel and the premieres in Mexico of Rossini’s Le comte Ory, Il viaggio a Reims and Donizetti's Viva la mamma.
Maestro López Reynoso was selected as the conductor for the 2014 Rossini Opera Festival Accademia, conducting Il viaggio a Reims as part of the festival program and working closely to great Rossini specialist, maestro Alberto Zedda. Previous positions include Artistic Director of the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Erster Kapellmeister of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Associate Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM, Artistic Director of the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes and Principal Guest Conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonía. Future engagements include the Opernhaus Zürich, The Santa Fe Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Born in 1990 in Guanajuato, Mexico, Lopez Reynoso studied violin, piano, choir conducting and he graduated Summa Cum Laude in orchestra conducting. He has since taken part in numerous master classes among which Alberto Zedda, Jean Paul Penin, Jan Latham-Koenig or Avi Ostrowsky. As an additional skill, Mtro. Lopez-Reynoso also sings as countertenor.
