Bios
Isidro Olmo Castillo,
Graduated in Dramatic Art at the Institut del Teatre-University of Barcelona in the speciality of interpretation, Isidro Olmo Castillo has worked with several independent theatre companies and has collaborated as an actor in films for cinema and television.
Expert in cultural management and production, a member of the Professional Association of Cultural Business Agents of Catalonia and interested in the research of the historical musical patrimony of the 18th century, at present his main effort is centred on his doctoral thesis "The authentic legacy of Farinelli", is about the period in which the famous castrated opera singer lived and worked in Madrid as an artistic director in the Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro and the operas that he programmed there.
In parallel, he carries out for the RCOC-Editorial the intensive task as the editor of antique music of composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
A long with Juan Bautista Otero, he has participated in the productions and stagings of the operas L'Arbore di Diana by Martín y Soler (National Reisopera and Dresden Festival, under the direction of Arnold Östman), La Gloria e Imeneo by Vivaldi, (direction of Juan Bautista Otero), Il Sogno e Ifigenia in Aulide by Martín y Soler, and Echo e Narcisso by Domenico Scarlatti, as in the production "Mariana Martinez, portrait of a composer".
In 2005 he participated in the production of Orlando, by Nicola Porpora for the Classical Music Festival of Aranjuez and in 2006-7 he participated in the productions of Ifigenia in Aulide by Martin y Soler and Aminta by Mazzoni in co-production with the festivals of Sarrebourg, Herne and the West Deutsche Rundfunk3 (WDR3) of Cologne.
A firm defender of the binomial Culture-Technology, Isidro Olmo is developing for RCOC, musical pedagogic projects related to the new technologies, with the goal to open up and create new audiences and bring them closer to the world of antique music. In this aspect, the project "Tradition and Modernity" of Cultural Television for Internet, is an initiative supported by the Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals.
At present he collaborates with Juan Bautista Otero, director of RCOC in the project "The trilogy of Terradellas" for the recovery of Artaserse, Sesostri and Merope, 3 of the most important serias operas by the Barcelona composer as well as the first recordings of the productions "Mariana Martínez, portrait of a composer" and the scenic cantata "Il Sogno by Vicente Martin y Soler.




