INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Acclaimed opera tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz will carry out “God Bless America” throughout pre-race ceremonies for the Indianapolis 500.
Chacón-Cruz is the winner of the 2024 Worldwide Opera Awards’ Readers’ Award and has carried out in additional than 60 main roles in 30 nations. He’s appeared in main opera homes resembling New York’s Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, San Francisco Opera and Vienna’s Staatsoper.
Chacón-Cruz is acclaimed within the operas of Verdi, Puccini and the French Romantic repertoire, with signature roles together with Werther, Don Carlo, Cavaradossi, Hoffmann and Manrico.
In 2018, he was named GQ Latin America’s Man of the Yr.
Based mostly in Miami along with his spouse and son, Chacón-Cruz continues to signify each his Mexican heritage and American journey. He turned an American citizen in 2010 and mentioned singing “God Bless America” on the Indy 500 is “a moment that reflects my artistic path and the country I now call home.”
IMS and IndyCar President Doug Boles referred to as the Indy 500 pre-race ceremony and singing of “God Bless America” probably the most vital tributes to the US.
“Arturo has carried out all through the world, on a number of the largest phases, so it’s solely becoming that he now provides his expertise to ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’ on the Racing Capital of the World,” Boles mentioned.
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