Ivan Lopez-Reynoso

Iván López Reynoso (born 19 April 1990) is a Mexican opera and symphonic conductor, pianist, violinist and countertenor.

Early life

López Reynoso was born in 1990 in Guanajuato, Mexico, to mechanical engineer Gustavo López and computer engineer Guadalupe Reynoso. He studied violin, piano, choir conducting and he graduated summa cum laude in orchestra conducting.

Career López Reynoso is the musical director of the Orchestra of Teatro Bellas Artes hosted at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He started as assistant conductor at Opera de Bellas Artes, located at Palacio de Bellas Artes at the age of 20. He would later make his opera debut as opera conductor with The Marriage of Figaro.

A special relationship connects López Reynoso to the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro where he made his opera debut in 2014 with the opera Il viaggio a Reims, invited by Alberto Zedda. It then followed an invitation to conduct the concert with Ildar Abdrazakov. López Reynoso also conducted Damiano Michieletto's production of Rossini's opera La scala di seta on tour at the Royal Opera House Muscat.

He currently is Principal Guest Conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonia and was Associate Conductor of Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM) in 2019 and 2020 in Mexico City. During the seasons 2017-18 and 2018-19 López Reynoso held the position of Erster Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Braunschweig where he collaborated with opera directors Jürgen Flimm, Andrea Moses and Brigitte Fassbaender among others.

Opera repertoire Vincenzo Bellini: I puritani Georges Bizet: Les pecheurs de perles Gaetano Donizetti: La fille du régiment Gaetano Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore Gaetano Donizetti: Viva la mamma Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte ("The Magic Flute") Giacomo Puccini: Tosca Giacomo Puccini: La Bohéme Giacomo Puccini: Madame Butterfly Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Gioachino Rossini: Il turco in Italia Gioachino Rossini: La scala di seta Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola Gioachino Rossini: Le comte Ory Giuseppe Verdi: Aida Dmitri Shostakovich: Moscow, Cheryomushki Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe Xavier Montsalvatge: El gato con botas

Chronology