Álvaro Corral Matute
Chorus Master & Children's Chorus Master
© Ana Álvarez
Álvaro Corral Matute joins Den Norske Opera in Oslo in the 2026/27 season, as their new Chorus Master. He was Chorus Master and Children's Chorus Master at Oper Frankfurt from April 2025 until the end of March 2026, after joining the company in 2021/2022. During his time in Frankfurt he trained the chorus (voted »Chorus of the Year« by critics from Opernwelt magazine 2o22, 2023 & 2024) and children's chorus for new productions of Madame Butterfly and Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer many and revivals, including Cosi fan tutte, Król Roger , Il trittico , Tosca, Hänsel und Gretel, Manon Lescaut, Werther, Don Giovanni , The Cunning Little Vixen, Hercules, Rigoletto, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Aida, Le nozze di Figaro, Christmas Eve and Nielsen's Masquerade. He also prepared the chorus and children's chorus for the first performances in Frankfurt of two of Britten's Church Parables: The Prodigal Son and The Burning Fiery Furnace. Before coming to Frankfurt he was a chorus and soloists' coach at Theater Bonn and Atlanta Opera, where he was a member of their Studio Programme. Other engagements have taken this Spanish born musician to places including France, Italy, Spain and the USA. He has worked with artists including Maestro Gary Wedow and the baritone Paolo Gavanelli, played for masterclasses held by Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas and Lawrence Brownlee and led family concerts with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa. Álvaro Corral Matute studied piano, orchestra management and coaching at leading music institutions including the Royal College of Music (GB), Musikene (Spanien), the Manhattan School of Music and Jacobs School of Music (USA) with Maciej Pikulski, Arturo Tamayo, Arthur Fagen and David Neely. He was awarded a full scholarship from the Spanish CaixaBank Foundation for his masters degree at Jacobs School of Music.