Rafael Dicenta

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Rafael Dicenta was born in Madrid in 1980. After completing his studies at the C.P.M. Arturo Soria, he moved to Córdoba to continue his studies at the C.S.M. Rafael Orozco. He has sung in several chamber opera productions, as well as Lied evenings and oratorios. Amable Díaz, Valle Duque, and specially the baritone and Maestro Don Carlos Hacar taught him his vocal technique. From 2012 to 2020 he lived in Vienna. Since August of 2020, he is a member of the Estonian National Opera Chorus. At the beginning of the season 2024/2025, he will sing the role of Harlequin in Ullmann’s opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (coproduction with Von Krahl Theatre).

REPERTOIRE
Count Almaviva (Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”) 
Edoardo (Rossini’s “The Marriage Contract”) 
Don Ottavio (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”)
Tamino, First armoured man/First Priest (Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”)
Ferrando (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)
Nemorino (Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”)
Ernesto (Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”)
Gennaro (Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia”)
Rinuccio (Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi”) 
Yamadori (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Judas (Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar”)
Alfredo (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Wicked Witch (Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”)
Arithmetics/Shadow of the Frog (Ravel’s “The Child and the Spells”)
Don Curzio (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)
Mayor (Kaumann/Keller’s “The Three Jolly Fellows”)

Concert repertoire
Juhan Jürme’s “Memento mori”
Rossini’s “Stabat Mater”
Bach’s “Magnificat”
Mozart’s Requiem
Saint-Saëns’s “Christmas Oratorio”
Verdi’s Requiem
Kodály’s “Te Deum”
Schumann’s “Dichterliebe”
Schubert’s “Die Schöne Müllerin”
Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major
Vaughan Williams’s “Songs of Travel”
De Falla’s “Seven Spanish folksongs”
Turina’s “Poem in a form of songs”
Strauss’s “Sechs Lieder aus Lotosblätter”