Nicola Alaimo studied in Palermo, his hometown. He then specialised with Vittoria Mazzoni and his uncle Simone Alaimo. He won the 'Giuseppe Di Stefano' competition in Trapani and debuted the role of Dandini in La Cenerentola at the San Sebastian Festival in '97. He attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, debuting the role of Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory under the baton of Alberto Zedda, and then became a reference artist over the course of the seasons, performing titles such as: La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Matilde di Shabran, Guillaume Tell (Mariotti/Vick), La Gazzetta, Il turco in Italia and Torvaldo e Dorliska.

The beginning of his career is marked by important productions, such as: Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore at the Ravenna Festival (conducted by Cristina Mazzavillani- Muti); Procolo in Le Convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali in Bergamo (conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati); Pharaon in Moise et Pharaon at the Teatro alla Scala (conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by Luca Ronconi); Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Torre del Lago; Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera in Bari and Palermo; Taddeo in L' Italiana in Algeri in Toulon; Belcore in L'Elisir d'amore in Savona (directed by Davide Livermore); Leporello in Don Giovanni in Taormina; Don Giovanni in Il dissoluto assolto by Azio Corghi; Don Pasquale in a Ravenna Festival production on tour in Cologne, Paris and Liège under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

Amongst the engagements of the beginnings it is worth mentioning also: Poliuto (Severo) and Il Trovatore at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Falstaff in Berne; La Forza del destino (Fra Melitone) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Zubin Metha; Paisiello's Matrimonio inaspettato (Tulipano) at the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg and then on tour in Italy conducted by Riccardo Muti; La Traviata (Giorgio Germont) at the Ravenna Festival and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Otello (Jago) in Salzburg. In 2009 he made his debut in the USA with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) conducted by James Levine, then he returned to the United States where at the Metropolitan in New York he was once again the protagonist of Simon Boccanegra and L'Elisir d'amore (conducted by Maurizio Benini) and Falstaff (conducted by Levine).

In past seasons he performed: Ernani (Don Carlo) in Catania; Falstaff in Montpellier, Piacenza, at the Teatro alla Scala conducted by Daniele Gatti, Bamberg and Marseille; Moise et Pharaon in Salzburg and Rome; Simon Boccanegra and Lord Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor in Palermo; Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Ravenna directed by Damiano Michieletto, in Liège, Padua and Paris (Opera National); Gianni Schicchi in Trieste; Francesco in I Masnadieri in Montpellier; Lo frate 'nnamurato in Jesi; La Forza del destino, La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell at the Opéra National de Paris; L'Elisir d'amore (Belcore) at the Wiener Staatsoper (debut) and as Dulcamara in Munich and Naples; Don Quichotte (Sancho Panza) in Cagliari; Attila (Ezio) at the opera in Rome conducted by Muti; Don Pasquale at the Teatro alla Scala; Belisario in London recorded for Opera Rara; La Traviata and the debut in I Puritani conducted by Mariotti at the Teatro Regio di Torino; Guillaume Tell in Amsterdam conducted by Paolo Carignani, Brussels with Evelino Pidò and in Monte Carlo; Stiffelio (Stankar) in Monte Carlo; Gianni Schicchi and Don Pasquale in Madrid, the latter conducted by Muti and in Rome directed by Campanella; Le Comte Ory, Falstaff, Luisa Miller in Liège and was Dandini in the successful production of La Cenerentola directed by Michieletto and conducted by Spinosi at the Salzburg Festival.

Recently he performed in: Il Pirata, La Cenerentola and La Cena delle Beffe at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Simon Boccanegra in Antwerp; Cenerentola, Trovatore and I Masnadieri in Monte Carlo; La Traviata at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London with Yves Abel and in Toulouse; Don Quichotte at the Chicago Opera; L'Italiana in Algeri and La Forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera; Guillaume Tell at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festspiele conducted by Marco Armiliato; Il turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, La Bohème and Adriana Lecouvreur in Bologna; Falstaff in Budapest, Palermo, Florence, Venice, Tokyo and Nice; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona, at the Salzburg Festival and in Monte Carlo; Simon Boccanegra in Paris; Rigoletto in Marseilles; Guillaume Tell in Orange and Lyon; he debuted the role of Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola in Amsterdam and later at the Teatro Comunale di Modena and in Madrid, along with La Traviata; L'Elisir d'Amore and Don Pasquale in Vienna; La Forza del Destino and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Florence; L'Italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in Zurich; L'esule di Roma with Opera Rara in London; debut in Nabucco in Geneva; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona; Le Comte Ory in Bologna; La Cenerentola in concert version in Prague (Smetana Hall); Don Pasquale in Turin; Gianni Schicchi in Monte Carlo; L'Italiana in Algeri in Zurich; Roberto Devereux in Geneva.

He was engaged in a successful tour alongside Cecilia Bartoli in Il Turco in Italia and La Cenerentola conducted by Gianluca Capuano in Monte Carlo, Martigny and Vienna.

Plans include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Verona and New York; L'Equivoco stravagante and Il Viaggio a Reims (concert version) in Pesaro; Adriana Lecouvreur in Madrid and Toulouse; Madama Butterfly in Florence; L'Elisir d'amore in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell in Liège; Roberto Devereux in Naples; Falstaff in Dresden and La rondine in London.

He received the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” award 2016.

August 2024