The Portuguese tenor Rodrigo Carreto has been appointed for the 11th edition of ‘Le Jardin des Voix‘ in the 2023/24 season with Les Arts Florissant, William Christie and Paul Agnew. He took part in the ‘2021 Bach Young Soloists Masterclass’ of Collegium Vocale Gent under Phillippe Herreweghe, with whom he has been working and performing since the 2021/22 season. Carreto was awarded the 3rd prize at the “2021 American Music Talent Competition”. In March 2020, he was invited to sing in the masterclass at Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart where he performed, among other works, the Cantata “Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt” BWV 244a with the JSB Ensemble under Hans-Christoph Rademann.

Great versatility enables Rodrigo Carreto to sing works from the Baroque to the 21st century. He has been mainly dedicated to the interpretation of masterpieces by J. S. Bach and G. F. Händel, french Baroque haute-contre repertoire as well as Romantic German Lieder cycles and other major works such as the W. A. Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ and ‘C Minor Mass’, J. Haydn’s  ‘The Creation’, F. Mendelssohn’s ‘Paulus’ and ‘Lauda Sion’, C. Gounod’s ‘St. Cecilia Mass’, C. Saint-Saëns’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ and B. Britten’s ‘Cantata Misericordium’. He regularly performs as a soloist with the Capriccio Barockorchester and La Chapelle Ancienne and in 2019 he gave the modern-day premiere of the  ‘Te Deum’ with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In 2021, together with the Os Músicos do Tejo, Rodrigo presented in Lisbon the cantata ‘Pyrame et Thisbé’ by L. N. Clérambault.

In the opera field, Rodrigo Carreto has sang the roles of Spoletta in G. Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ at the Lisbon OperaFest 2020 with the MPMP Ensemble, Belfiore in W. A. Mozart’s ‘La Finta Giardiniera’ under Johannes Schlaefli and Annette Uhlen at the Theater der Künste Gessnerallee, Zürich May 2021, amongst others. In December 2021 he performed and recorded as D. Fuas in “As Guerras do Alecrim e da Manjerona”, at the CCB in Lisbon. 

Other than for the Collegium Vocale Gent, Rodrigo Carreto is also part of the pool of singers for the Schweizer Vokalconsort under Marco Amherd, and has collaborated with La Capella Nacional de la Catalunya under Jordi Savall, J. S. Bach-Stiftung under Rudolf Lutz, La Cetra under Andrea Marcón and  Chœur de Chambre Namur under Leonardo García Alarcón and La Grande Chapelle under Albert Recasens. Between 2017 and 2019, Rodrigo Carreto was part of the Gulbenkian Choir, where he worked regularly with Michel Corboz, Paul McCreesh and Lorenzo Viotti, as well as in projects with Ton Koopman, Gustavo Dudamel, David Afkham, John Nelson and Alain Altinoglu.

Rodrigo Carreto has extensive concert and festival experience throughout Europe and further afield, including in Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain and China, and has performed on such prestigious stages such as Berliner Philharmoniker and Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie Paris, Het Concertgebouw and Auditorio Nacional de Música. 

After completing his degree in Choral Conducting and Music Theory at the University Escola Superior de Música in his home city of Lisbon, and vocal study with Joana Nascimento, Rodrigo Carreto moved to Switzerland to undertake a Master in Singing Performance at the Zurich University of the Arts under the tuition of Scot Weir, and also had his musical and technical development in parallel with guidance from British singers Peter Harvey and Robert Murray. Rodrigo has attended workshops and masterclasses with internationally acclaimed singers such as Dame Emma Kirkby, Werner Güra, Margreet Honig, Peter Kooij, Yvonne Naef, Jill Feldman, Geert Smits, Lothar Odinius, Flavio Ferri-Benedetti and Xavier Moreno.