Roberto Alagna - tenor

Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna - tenor

Alagna är född i Frankrike, men hans familj kom ursprungligen från Sicilien. Han är i huvudsak självlärd och influerad av Mario Lanza. Han vann Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition occh debuterade professionellt 1988 som Alfredo Germont i La traviata med Glyndebournes turnésällskap.Detta ledde till olika engagemang i Frankrike och Italien. Hans rykte växte vilket ledde till engagemang på La Scala som Alfredo Germont i La traviata. Han debuterade på Covent Garden 1992 och på Metropolitan som Rodolfo i La Bohème. Han gjorde stor succé som Romeo i Gounods Roméo et Juliette på Covent Garden 1994. Han invigde den nya Köpenhamnsoperan i rollen som Radames i Aida 2005.

Wiener Staatsopera about

At the age of 24, Roberto Alagna won the Pavarotti International Voice Competition in 1988 in Philadelphia. Within a very short time span, he was engaged in Glyndebourne, Monte Carlo and La Scala in Milan. There – under the direction of Riccardo Muti – the tenor impressed the audience first as Alfredo in Verdi´s La traviata and later also as duke in Rigoletto as well as as Rodolfo in Puccini´s La Bohème. Since then, Roberto Alagna is a regular guest in the world´s most significant opera houses, for example in New York, Paris, London and Vienna. Furthermore, he performed very successfully as Roméo in Gounod´s Roméo et Juliette, as Don Carlos in the French version of Verdi´s Don Carlos, as Des Grieux (Manon), Faust, Don José or as Edgar in the French setting of Donizetti´s Lucia di Lammermoor, as Manrico (Il trovatore), Canio (Pagliacci), Radames (Aida), Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Werther. Roberto Alagna made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1992 as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore). Since then, he has sung Rodolfo, Des Grieux, Duca, Don José, Don Carlo, Cavaradossi, Gustaf III., Werther, Alfredo and the title-role in Charles Gounod’s Faust.

Aktuella och kommande engagemang

Jul 17		Turandot	Calaf it	Royal Opera, London	C: D Ettinger; D: A Serban
May-Jun 17		L’elisir d’amore	Nemorino it	Royal Opera, London	C: Bertrand de Billy; D: L Pelly
May 17		Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano	The Metropolitan Opera, New York	C: Marco Armiliato; D: F Zambello
Mar-Jul 17		Carmen	Don José fr	Opéra National de Paris	C: Bringuier / Mark Elder; D: Bieito
Feb 17		Il trovatore	Manrico	Wiener Staatsoper	C: Marco Armiliato; D: D Abbado
Jan 17		Concert	ténor	Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris	C: Croci;
Dec 16-Feb 17		Il trovatore	Manrico it	Royal Opera, London	C: Farnes; D: David Bösch
Oct 16		La juive	Le Juif Eléazar fr	Bayerische Staatsoper, München	C: Bertrand de Billy; D: Bieito
Oct 16-May 17		L’elisir d’amore	Nemorino it	Deutsche Oper Berlin	C: Gnann; D: Irina Brook

Länktips

Wikipedia In English

Wiener Staatsoper

Opera de Paris

Operabase

Metropolitan Opera

Roberto Alagna´s web-site

Sammanställt av Mogens H Andersson