Catalan tenor, born Eduard Giménez i Gràcia; typically hispanicised to Eduardo Giménez. Originally a worker in the textile
industry, he studied voice in Barcelona (making his debut as Normanno in his native Mataró when still an amateur), then in Milano. His
professional debut took place in Reggio Emilia in February 1967 as Nemorino, which was to become his most-performed role.
In 1970, he made his debuts at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and at La Scala in Milano, in 1971 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, in
1973 at the Vienna Staatsoper (where he would mostly sing Almaviva). He made a very good career: Rossini Festival in Pesaro (Il viaggio a
Reims, 1984), Torino, Rome, Venice, Naples, Genova, Bologna; Buenos Aires (Don Ramiro at the Teatro Colón, 1986), Rio de Janeiro;
Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Nice, Lyon, Rouen, Monte Carlo; Budapest, Zagreb, Leningrad; Houston, Washington, Seattle;
Tel Aviv; plus he made a late debut at Covent Garden as Elvino in 1990, when his career was almost over. But the core of his activity was the
Liceu, where he would sing the occasional small role into the early 2000s.
I heard him as Almaviva, and was very explicitly not impressed.
From 1984, he taught voice at the Conservatori del Liceu, and at the time of writing (2024), he still does.
Reference 1, reference 2: Kutsch &
Riemens
