Nicola Alaimo
baritone
One of the leading artists of his generation Nicola Alaimo recently gained great successes at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (L’italiana in Algeri; Falstaff/title role; L'Elisir d'Amore), at the La Scala in Milan (Falstaff/title role, La Cena delle Beffe/Neri Chiaramantesi, Don Pasquale /title role, Comte Ory/ Rimbaud), at Teatro Regio in Turin (Sir Riccardo Forth, I Puritani; Germont, Traviata) at the Salzburg Festival (Dandini, La Cenerentola), at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam, at the Opéra in Monte Carlo and in Paris-TCE (Guillaume Tell / title role), at the Opéra de Paris (Il Barbiere di Siviglia/ Bartolo), at the Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio; Don Pasquale), in London (Belisario - title role, recorded by Opera Rara) at the Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola/Dandini; La Forza del Destino/ Frà Melitone, ), at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Don Pasquale; Gianni Schicchi), at the Opéra de Monte Carlo (Stankar, Stiffelio), in Berlin (L'Elisir d'Amore).
Also a reference performer of Rossini’s roles Nicola Alaimo made his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2010 singing La Cenerentola, then he starred in Il barbiere di Siviglia (2011) Matilde di Shabran (2012), Guillaume Tell (title role), staged in 2013, La Gazzetta and a solo recital (2015), and as Don Geronio in Il Turco in Italia(2016).
Mr. Alaimo gained great success performing Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen in Bologna with Michele Mariotti, in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Don Quichotte at the Lyric Opera in Chicago.
Mr. Alaimo regularly collaborates with conductors as Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Gianluigi Gelmetti, James Levine, Michele Mariotti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Evelino Pidò, Jean Christophe Spinosi, Alberto Zedda.
Plans include: La Cenerentola, I Masnadieri, Falstaff, Il Trovatore at the Opéra in Monte-Carlo; Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo; Don Pasquale (title role) in Vienna; Rigoletto in Marseille; Guillaume Tell in Lyon; La Traviata at the Opera House Covent Garden Yves Abel conducting; Simon Boccanegra (title role) in Paris, Antwerp, and Luxembourg; Torvaldo e Dorliska at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Falstaff in Budapest; other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
In 2016, the Association of Italy’s Music Critics awarded Mr. Alaimo with the prestigious “Premio Abbiati”.
December 2016
