Nicola Alaimo studied in Palermo, his hometown. He won the
G. Di Stefano competition in Trapani, where he made his debut in 1997 in La
Cenerentola (Dandini). He then attended the Accademia Rossiniana in
Pesaro, performing Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory under the baton of Alberto
Zedda, and performed several times at the Wexford Festival Opera. Nicola Alaimo
specialized under the guidance of Simone Alaimo and Vittoria Mazzoni.
Mr Alaimo made his stage debut at the Ravenna Festival in Il
Trovatore (il Conte di Luna), directed by Cristina Mazzavillani-Muti.
Amongst engagements of the beginnings it is worth mentioning: Le
Convenienze e Inconvenienze Teatrali (Procolo) in Bergamo; Un Ballo in
Maschera in Palermo; Il Dissoluto assolto (Don Giovanni) at the
Teatro alla Scala directed by G. Cobelli; Falstaff (title role) in
Ravenna and on tour in Italy; Don Pasquale (title role) in Palermo
conducted by K.L. Wilson; Donizetti's Poliuto (Severo); L'Italiana
in Algeri (Taddeo) in Pisa; La Forza del Destino (Fra
Melitone) at the Maggio Musicale in Florence under Zubin Mehta.
He enjoys a prolific collaboration with
Riccardo Muti, having performed: Il Matrimonio Inaspettato (Tulipano)
at the Salzburger Festspiele and in Ravenna; Otello (Jago) in Salzburg
and in Rome; Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon (Pharaon) at the Teatro alla
Scala in Milan staged by Luca Ronconi and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; and
Don Pasquale in Vienna, Liege, Köln, Paris (Salle Pleyel), at the
Ravenna Festival, in Malta, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Particularly interesting
is his collaboration with the Rossini Opera Festival where he made his debut in
2010 singing La Cenerentola and becoming a reference performer for the
main Rossini's roles; in the past seasons he returned to Pesaro starring in
important productions such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Matilde di Shabran, Guillaume
Tell (Mariotti/Vick); La Gazzetta; Il turco in
Italia and Torvaldo e Dorliska.
Highlights of his successful career include: La
Traviata (Germont) at the Ravenna Festival conducted by Patrick
Fournillier and staged by Cristina Mazzavillani-Muti and at the Teatro
dell'Opera in Rome under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti; Falstaff in
Montpellier, in Piacenza, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bamberg; Moïse
et Pharaon at the Salzburger Festspiele; Caterina Cornaro
(Lusignano) in Amsterdam; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo) Ravenna,
Palermo, Liège and Padova; a brilliant US debut with Simon Boccanegra
(Paolo) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine,
then at the Metropolitan in New York well he also sung L'Elisir
d'Amore. Then he starred in: Lucia di Lammermoor
(Lord Enrico Ashton) in Palermo; I Masnadieri (Francesco) in
Montpellier; La Forza del Destino (Fra Melitone) at the Opéra
Bastille in Paris.
Mr. Alaimo made his debut in Wien with L'Elisir d'Amore
(Belcore), and he sang for the first time Dulcamara in Messina and Sancho in
Massenet's Don Quichotte in Cagliari; Don Pasquale
(title role) at La Scala in Milan, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opera in Rome; Attila
(Ezio) at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome under the baton of Riccardo Muti; La
Cenerentola at the Opéra National de Paris and at the Salzburg Festspiele
with Cecilia Bartoli; Belisario in London recorded for Opera Rara; Stiffelio
(Stankar) at the Opera de Monte Carlo; Gullaume Tell (title role)
at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Brussels (under Pidò) and Monte Carlo and at
the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris with great success of critics and
public. Among his recent success it is worth mentioning: L'Elisir d'Amore
(Dulcamara) in Berlin, Naples and in Modena; Luisa Miller in Liège; Le
Comte Ory (Rimbaud) and Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in
Milan; I Puritani (Sir Riccardo Forth) at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Gianni
Schicchi at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Rossini's Stabat Mater
in Santander, Alberto Zedda conducting; Fauré's Requiem in Florence.
Recently he performed in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris (Opéra
National); La Cena delle Beffe at La Scala in Milan; Mahler’s Lieder eines
Fahrenden Gesellen at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Simon
Boccanegra in Antwerpen; La Cenerentola,
Il Trovatore e I Masnadieri in
Monte Carlo; La Traviata at the Royal Opera House Covent
Garden, conducted by Yves Abel; Don Quichotte (Sancho Panza)
at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; L’Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo), La
forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera; Guillaume Tell at
the Bayerische Staatsoper; Adriana Lecouvreur in
Palermo; Il turco in Italia and La Bohème in
Bologna; Falstaff in Budapest and Montecarlo; Il
Pirata (Ernesto) and La Cenerentola (Dandini) at Teatro
alla Scala in Milan; Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena in Verona; La
Traviata in Toulouse and Madrid; Simon Boccanegra in Paris; Rigoletto in
Marseille; Guillaume Tell in Orange; Adriana Lecouvreur in
Salzburg under Marco Armiliato and a Gala Concert at the Rossini Opera Festival
in Pesaro; Guillaume Tell in Lyon; La Traviata in Madrid; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) in Amsterdam and Modena; Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'amore in Vienna; series of concerts in Pesaro; Falstaff at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Adriana Lecouvreur in Bologna (opera movie), Florence and Vienna; La Cenerentola in Madrid and in Bologna (Emma Dante directing); Il Turco in Italia in Monte Carlo; L'Italiana in Algeri in Zurich; Il Barbiere di Siviglia and a gala concert at the Salzburg Festival; La Cenerentola and Il Turco in Italia on tour with Cecilia Bartoli; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Florence under Daniele Gatti.
Plans include: Falstaff in Venice and Tokyo; La Forza del Destino at the Opéra in Paris; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Monte Carlo; L'Italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in Zurich; Nabucco and Roberto Devereux in Genève; Simon Boccanegra in Florence; I Due Foscari in Chicago; La Cenerentola and Adriana Lecouvreur in Toulouse ; Guillaume Tell in Liège.
October 2022