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Rafa Casette
Rafa Casette at Sitges Film Festival 2012
Born	(1965-08-20) August 20, 1965 (age 59) Zaragoza, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation(s)	Actor and singer
Years active	1995–present

Rafa Casette (born August 20, 1965) is a Spanish actor and singer. His career began aged 30 in a Spanish zarzuela called La Verbena de la Paloma in 1995. After his participation in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim in 2009 at the Teatro Español de Madrid, he has been involved continuously in audiovisual projects, including his first lead role in the upcoming film La mujer que hablaba con los muertos (The woman who talked to the dead) by director César del Álamo.

Career

Casette began singing at a young age. After finishing high school he decided to become a lawyer and started his studies at Autonomous University of Madrid, while singing as a hobby in several amateur choirs of progressive quality, performing in international tours (France, Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Poland). He abandoned his law studies due to financial difficulties and over the years he worked as a burger cook, insurance salesman, Internet webmaster, telemarketer, electronic music composer, CGI designer, and comics illustrator.

He made his acting debut in 1995 in the Spanish zarzuela called La Verbena de la Paloma (The Fair of the Dove), filling in for a choir member at the Teatro Calderón de Madrid company of director José Luis Moreno. He first appeared as a chorus singer and support actor, with roles of increasing importance owing to the support of director José Tamayo and his acclaimed international show Antología de la Zarzuela and other zarzuela Spanish directors. In the following years he studied Music and Acting at several public and private schools.

In 2008, he was selected from a cast of 1,200 to play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the musical thriller by Stephen Sondheim in 2009 at Teatro Español de Madrid. Taking advantage of free time between rehearsals and plays, he shot his first homemade videobook and enrolled in several talent agencies, starting a continuous audiovisual career; it includes a wide variety of short movies, TV series, international TV commercials, radio broadcast acting and host, and his first lead role in the upcoming film La mujer que hablaba con los muertos (The woman who talked to the dead) by director César del Álamo, which will be released in May 2014 at Nocturna, Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival.

Nominations

• Premios Max (2013) — Best Supporting Actor for Pocahontas, El Musical

Filmography

Television

Theatre

Zarzuela being his main activity, Casette has worked throughout Spain over the past eighteen years with many lyric companies including the Teatro de la Zarzuela National Company and the Royal Theatre National Company and he has been involved in the main theater seasons on the Iberian Peninsula. He has a repertoire of over fifty zarzuelas, opera and operetta. He has also participated in the following plays:

References

1. ^ "Sweeney Todd". todoMUSICALES (in Spanish). October 15, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
2. ""LA MUJER QUE HABLABA CON LOS MUERTOS" TEASER TRAILER". César del Álamo Youtube Channel (in Spanish and English). February 2, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
3. "79 Notable alumni of Autonomous University of Madrid - 67. Rafa Casette". edurank.org. Edurank.org. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
4. "Klinskiy commercial". GateFilms Vimeo Channel (in Russian). Retrieved November 23, 2013.
5. "La Banda". Elena en el País de los Horrores (in Spanish). Retrieved November 23, 2013.
6. "Rafa Cassette: El teatro en la época de Eurípides". Onda Cero (in Spanish). August 5, 2012. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
7. "La mujer que hablaba con los muertos – entrevista a Rafa Casette" (PDF). Revista Digital Ángulo 13 (in Spanish). May 19, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
8. "LA MUJER QUE HABLABA CON LOS MUERTOS". Nocturna, Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
9. "Candidatos a la 16ª EDICIÓN (2013) de los Premios Max" (PDF). Junta de Andalucía (in Spanish). December 18, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
10. "EL VISITANTE". El rincón del corto (in Spanish). October 5, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
11. "ESTRELLITA". El rincón del corto (in Spanish). February 6, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
12. "TUS GRITOS ME DAN RISA – A Short Film By Sergio Morcillo". Horror Cult Films. September 13, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
13. "Sergio Morcillo's LAST TRANSMISSION Competing in JAMESON NOTODO FILMFEST". Horror Cult Films. March 4, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
14. "MARÍA & MARTA". El rincón del corto (in Spanish). March 7, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
15. "Hablando con los muertos – El blog de rodaje de la nueva película de César del Álamo". Blogger.com (in Spanish). Retrieved November 23, 2013.
16. "El Teatro Arlequín propone un verano de zarzuela con dos espectáculos diferentes". Artez blai (in Spanish). July 24, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
17. "SWEENEY TODD arrasa en los Premios Gran Vía de Teatro Musical 2009". todoMUSICALES (in Spanish). June 2, 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
18. "LA ANTOLOGÍA Y EL MUSICAL DE MUSICALES se estrena en Elche". todoMUSICALES (in Spanish). February 2, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
19. "'Pocahontas El Musical' llega al Teatro Coliseum de Madrid". BroadwayWorld Spain (in Spanish). March 4, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
20. "'El espiritu de Esperanza, tu y yo' y 'Viceversa' microteatro en la sala Fotomatón Bar de Madrid". BroadwayWorld Spain (in Spanish). April 12, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.

External links

• Rafa Casette at IMDb
• Rafa Casette Youtube Channel
• Podcast Casette – iVoox Channel

• 1965 births
• Male actors from Zaragoza
• Spanish male film actors
• Spanish male musical theatre actors
• 20th-century Spanish male actors
• 21st-century Spanish male actors
• Spanish male voice actors
• Autonomous University of Madrid alumni
• Living people