Biography

Forthcoming and recent appearances include Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Swedish Opera, and Tamerlano in Handel’s Tamerlano for English Touring Opera, and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Hannover Staatsoper.

In recent seasons he has appeared at opera houses and festivals such as The Royal Swedish Opera, Theater an der Wien, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Confidencen Baroque Theatre Stockholm, Kilden Teater Kristiansand, Berwaldhallen Stockholm, Swedish Church Music Symposium, Festival le Bourget, among others.

His voice has been recorded as a guest soloist in several albums, among them “Chorus Gloriosus" conducted by Erik Westberg released in 2017 and "Pure Hautecontre” which is a solo album produced by Rodrigo himself, released in 2017, where he performs as both conductor and target soloist. He combines the alto/mezzo repertory with the french haute-contre and italian tenore-contraltino repertory of the 17th century.

He has performed twelve opera roles of which four have been written for his voice within contemporary operas by living composers. At the age of 16 he had his oratorio debut singing the countertenor solo in C. Orff’s Carmina Burana, three years later his opera debut as The Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, in a production by the Catalan Baroque Orchestra.

Born in Mérida, Venezuela, Rodrigo studied conducting in Spain, Germany and Austria where he graduated in 2013 in the class of Johannes Prinz. He studied singing in Switzerland and Sweden where he finished his masters in early music singing with Susanne Rydén 2016 and in June 2018 his masters in opera performance under the tutelage of Erik Årman.

Several prizes in international singing competitions such as, among others, the Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona, the Renata Tebaldi International Voice Competition in San Marino, the Stenhammar International Music Competition in Norrköping have been given to Rodrigo in 2017-18, as well as the Cesti Baroque Opera Competition in Innsbruck, where he has been a finalist and a role awardee.

In 2020 Rodrigo was awarded the Friends of Drottningholm Theatre’s Opera Stipend.

Website: https://rodrigososadalpozzo.com/

Reviews

“…unusual richness and colour…”

The most intriguing performance came from Italian-Venezualan countertenor Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo. His voice, of unusual richness and colour, proved entirely persuasive in music purloined from fruity Russian mezzos (“Mjortvoje pole” from Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky), and both he and the normally stoic Lintu seemed to have a whale of a time in Rinaldo’s “Or la tromba”.

— Bachtrack, review of Mirjam Helin Competition final

“…un chant sensible et concentré”

Le contre-ténor Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo prête une couleur tendre, idéale, à son Flammiro dont, avec un naturel confondant, il dépasse le ridicule par un chant sensible et concentré. Outre la souplesse d’une voix sainement cultivée, l’aisance en scène et le charisme signent sa prestation.

— anaclase.com

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