Senior Counsel
Enrique Granados, is an Attorney, Notary Public and also a well known Opera Singer, who speaks Spanish, Italian and English.
In 1959, he began his studies at the University of Costa Rica: Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1965, he graduated from Law School and in 1969, he graduated from the Conservatory of Music. In 1973, he specialized in
Air and Space Law, degree awarded by the National Institute of Air and Space Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professionally, Attorney Granados has worked in both public and private sector.
Positions Held in Public Sector:
•Clerk of the First Criminal Hall (1959 to 1965).
•General Director of Immigration Department (July 1966 to September 1968).
•General Director and Chairman of the Board, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Ambassador (September 1968 February 1970).
•Cultural Counselor and then Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Costa Rica in Buenos Aires, Argentina (March 1970 December 1978).
•In November 1999, he had the high honor to be appointed, by the President of Costa Rica, as the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, as well as, President of the Costa Rican Institute of Sport and Recreation (ICODER)
and President of the Board of the Melico Salazar Popular Theatre.
Awards and Honors:
•Certificate of Recognition from the Union of Radio and Television (1967).
•Official Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1968).
•Honorary Citizen of the City of New Orleans, USA (1969).
•Keys to the City of New Orleans. E.U.A. (1969).
•President of the Coordinating Committee for the arrival in Costa Rica of the Governor of the State of New York, Mr. Nelson Rockefeller (1969).
•Founder and Artistic Director General and National Lyric Company (1980 83).
•And paragraph mention in the book "Voices, Teatro Colon 1908 1982" Enzo Valenti Ferro, Gaglianone Art Editions, Argentina, 1983.
•President of the Association for Art Lyrique (1984).
•Silver Trophy awarded by the magazine Popular Opera in Miami, Fla., United States (1984).
•Professor of Law at the Universidad Autonoma de Centro America (UACA) (Stvdivm Generale) (1985 - 2000).
•Scroll of Merit granted by the Bar of Attorneys for twenty-five years of professional practice (1993).
•Keys to the City of Cartegena de Indias, Colombia (2002).
Publications:
•"Opera and Delinquency, legal review of some Italian opera" (Thesis for the Bachelor degree in Law, University of Costa Rica).
•The Opera. Academic record. October 1990, Number 7.Universidad Autonoma de Centro America. Editor Jossmay (Sanse SA) 1990.
•National Lyric Company. Magazine "Classical" # 5, January 1994. Editor Sonia L. Marin. Printing Ser-Lit 1994.