Daniel Muñoz

Muñoz studied voice at the opera school of the Teatro Colón in his native Buenos Aires, and subsequently with Carlos Guichandut. He made his debut at the Colón in 1979 and was an immediate success, which led to his European debut at the São Carlos in Lisbon and an engagement at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid in 1980. After additional studies with Fernando Bandera in Milano, he seriously started his career in 1982: Santander, A Coruña, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas, Málaga, Rome, Catania, Messina, Genova, Trieste, Athens, Dresden, Dortmund, Augsburg, Bonn, Metz, Nancy, Liège, St. Gallen, Bern, Budapest, Helsinki, Glasgow, Cape Town and so on, plus Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and regularly at the Colón in Buenos Aires. He even sang half an evening at the Met, stepping in for Lando Bartolini halfway through Aida in 1994. Not a great career, but still a surprisingly good one, for a singer with such a bad wobble already in young years, and such screamed and pushed high notes.

Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens; reference 2: Muñoz' website