Countertenor
Logan Lopez Gonzalez
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Belgian countertenor Logan Lopez Gonzalez is a versatile artist, equally at home in baroque, contemporary, and operatic repertoire. He is known for his communicative energy and a timbre that is both sensitive and luminous. His performances have been praised for their depth and intensity, with Opera Magazine stating, "As for Logan Lopez Gonzalez, no praise is high enough. (…) claiming this repertoire for the countertenor voice."
A sought-after interpreter of baroque music, Logan collaborates regularly with ensembles such as Cappella Mediterranea, Concerto Soave, Il Groviglio, Le Concert Bourgeois, and the Orchestre Royal de l’Opéra de Versailles. At the same time, he is deeply engaged in contemporary music, having created roles in several world premieres, including Be My Superstar at LOD Muziektheater, Opera Vlaanderen, and Dutch National Opera, the title role in SOLAR, Icarus Burning at La Monnaie, the Wolf in Vasco Mendonça’s The Girl, the Hunter and the Wolf, and OGRES by Simon Voseček at the Prague National Theatre.
In the 2025/26 season, he will debut in the title role of Händel’s Ottone at l’Opéra de l’impératrice in Switzerland, and as Un page in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges at La Monnaie. He is also part of the contemporary opera creation A menina, o caçador e o lobo by Vasco Mendonça e Gonçalo M. Tavares in Rio de Janeiro and in Portugal. In concert, he will perform the role of Sesto in Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno on tour with Cappella Mediterranea, he will sing Händel & Vivaldi solo concerts with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, among many other projects. -
During the 2024/25 season, Logan took on the role of Argone in Händel’s Sosarme at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Opéra de Marseille. He also appeared as a soloist in staged performances of Amour à mort at the Opéra National de Lorraine and Bach’s St John Passion at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In concert, he performed and recorded Rinaldo by Händle (role: Argante) with ensemble Il Groviglio. He also performed Bach and Händel cantatas with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón at the Festival d’Ambronay, as well as a programme of Roman polyphony at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles, among others.
Logan also performed 555: Verlaine en prison in London, in a four-show run at the Arcola Theatre. Co-created with director Eleanor Burke, the production offers a queer reimagining of the life of French poet Paul Verlaine. After its 2023 premiere at La Monnaie, the piece was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2024. Following its run at the Grimeborn Opera Festival and the Arcola Theatre, Logan was nominated for Best Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards (UK). In the coming seasons, 555: Verlaine en prison will tour to Switzerland and Belgium.
Previous highlights included his debut at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele and the Opéra de Dijon in Bach’s St. John’s Passion in the acclaimed new production by Sasha Waltz and Leonardo García Alarcón, his debut at the National Theatre of Prague in the world premiere of Šimon Voseček opera OGRES, the role of Gloria in Vivaldi’s Gloria e Imeneo at the Théâtre de la Reine in Versailles, a concert tour to five Chinese cities with the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Händel’s Messiah at the Namur Concert Hall, the creation of Amour à mort at La cité bleue in Geneva, and song recitals in Belgium and France with his pianist Stella Marie Lorenz.
Logan trained at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons and the Royal Academy of Music, before joining the National Opera Studio of the United Kingdom, La Monnaie/De Munt Academy, and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. He made his professional debut aged 21, performing Frantík and the Grasshopper in The Cunning Little Vixen at La Monnaie and Amore in L’Incoronazione di Poppea during the same season at Angers Nantes Opéra in a production by Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier.
General Management: Tiben Artists
