Gastón Efficace

Gastón Efficace is an Argentine tenor based in Berlin. In 2022 he completed a Master’s degree in Opera Singing at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź. He also holds a Licenciatura in Composition from the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires.

His stage work in Germany spans opera and operetta. His performed roles include Arlecchino in Pagliacci, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Spoletta in Tosca, Lord Arturo Bucklaw in Lucia di Lammermoor and Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte. He appeared as a Lehrbub in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Theater Bonn. His operetta roles include Camille von Rosillon and Cascada in Die lustige Witwe and Gustav von Pottenstein in Das Land des Lächelns.

Internationally, he has sung Cecco in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna in Poland and Norway, Mercure in Rameau’s Platée in Poland, and Adolfo Pirelli in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with North/West Opera in Ireland. In Argentina, his appearances included Borsa in Rigoletto and Bastien in Bastien und Bastienne. His concert work includes the tenor solo parts in Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria.

In 2019 he received a scholarship for the Lotte Lehmann Akademie summer programme in Perleberg. In 2023 he was a semifinalist in the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano. Alongside his stage career, he accompanies singers at the piano and teaches piano and voice. Through Il Bacio di Tosca, his Spanish-language YouTube channel with more than 70,000 subscribers, he produces educational videos about opera and classical music.