biography

Alex Esposito – Bass

September 2010

Alex Esposito has rapidly become one of the most interesting Italian basses of his generation. In 2007 Mr. Esposito has been awarded by the Italian National Association of Music Critics with the most prestigious music recognition for an Italian musician: the Premio Abbiati as Best Singer of the 2005/06 season.

During the last seasons he sang: Don Giovanni (Leporello) at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, La Boheme (Colline) at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, La Vedova Scaltra (Arlecchino) at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Faurè's Requiem in Verona, Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), Tancredi (Orbazzano) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro) at Teatro dell'Opera of Rome. Have followed Così fan Tutte (Guglielmo) with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Il Cordovano e Morte dell'aria of Petrassi, La finta semplice at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) and Stravinsky's Pulcinella at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Don Giovanni (Leporello) always at the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Teatro Regio of Turin, a concert of Mozart's arias with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. He sang under the direction of the most prestigious conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti and Myung-Whun Chung. In August 2007 he interpreted Fernando in Rossini's La Gazza Ladra at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, role grated with enthusiasm by the audience and the specialized critics. In the season 2007/2008 he sang the Haydn's Stabat Mater under the direction of Frans Brüggen at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, played the role of Walter in the Guillaume Tell at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the direction of Antonio Pappano, Alidoro in La Cenerentola at Covent Garden in London, Publio in the La Clemenza Tito at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro in Japan with the Salzburg Festival, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Teatro Regio in Parma and Masetto at the Salzburg Festival in the new production of Don Giovanni by Claus Guth.

In the season 2008/2009 he sang: the role of Leporello at the Covent Garden with Antonio Pappano, Figaro at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Petit Messe Solennelle by Rossini in Madrid, Pulcinella by Stravinsky with Daniele Gatti in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Turin at Lingotto, La Gazza Ladra in Bologna and Reggio Emilia, Le Nozze di Figaro at the La Monnaie in Brussels, Zelmira in Pesaro and Don Giovanni at the Reate Festival under the direction of M° Kent Nagano.

Among his recent and future engagements: Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper in Munich under the direction of Kent Nagano, at La Scala in Milan, at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in Berlin Deutsche Oper, London, Vienna and Toulouse, Lucrezia Borgia in Ancona, Le Nozze di Figaro in Rieti and Paris, Die zauberflöte at La Scala in Milan and in Munich, Cenerentola in Pesaro, Paris and Munich, Così fan tutte in Toulouse, Italiana in Algeria in Marseilles, Turco in Italia in Amsterdam.

Alex Esposito was born in Bergamo, where he also studied piano and organ. He studied singing with Romano Roma and Sherman Lowe.