Salvador Novoa
Salvador Novoa is a Mexican dramatic tenor. He is especially known for the operas of Alberto Ginastera.
Novoa made his operatic debut with the Mexican Opera Company, in 1960, as B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. His first great success occurred in 1967, when he created the role of Pier Francesco Orsini in Ginastera's Bomarzo, for the Opera Society of Washington.He began his tenure with the New York City Opera in 1966, where he appeared regularly until 1972, in Tosca, Carmen, Gianni Schicchi, Der Rosenkavalier, La traviata, Bomarzo, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Rodrigo, and Mefistofele.
In 1974, Novoa sang in a Concert Version of Mefistofele, alongside Treigle and Nancy Shade, at London's Royal Festival Hall. The tenor also sang with major companies in Buenos Aires, Toronto, Vancouver, Marseille, Stuttgart, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Houston, Omaha, Philadelphia, Portland, and San Diego. In 1978, he sang in Nabucco, in New Orleans, with Kostas Paskalis, Rita Hunter, and Ferruccio Furlanetto.Discography
