(Translated)
“The Argentinian has long been compared to Cecilia Bartoli, who was his Cleopatra in Handel’s sumptuous Giulio Cesare conducted by Marc Minkowski at the Zurich Opera in 2005 before also becoming a recording partner. He was not 24 Being mistaken for the masculine clone of the Italian diva probably has nothing to displease the man who will soon be the first countertenor in thirty years to win the prestigious Italian musical award Premio Abbiati in 2011. Doesn’t he, like her, have that virtuoso furia which, even in the opinion of his countertenor colleagues, and they are now legion, makes him unsurpassable? An amber timbre, three triumphant octaves, with an unusual power for that type of voice – proudly chesty lows, fiery projecting highs, through a ductile midrange.”