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Nicola Alaimo - Falstaff
Following recent critically-acclaimed performances at the Rossini Opera Festival
in Pesaro (Rossini’s Guillaume Tell- title role), Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don
Pasquale- title role), Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio,
cond.
Riccardo Muti and Don Pasquale, cond. Bruno Campanella) London (Belisario- title
role, recorded by Opera Rara) Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola, Dandini- La Forza del Destino, Fra
Melitone), Teatro Real de Madrid (Don Pasquale, cond. Riccardo Muti),
Teatro Regio in Turin (Traviata, Giorgio Gérmont), Opéra de Monte Carlo (Stiffelio,
Stankar, cond.
Maurizio Benini), Nicola Alaimo makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York singing the last Verdi’s masterpiece.
Still a teenager Nicola Alaimo won the Giuseppe Di Stefano competition in
Trapani, debuting in the role of Dandini in La
Cenerentola. A versatile artist, he was chosen by Riccardo Muti for the
title role of Don Pasquale in Ravenna Festival and on tour in
Europe and Russia, then invited him also forMoïse et Pharaon at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and
for Il Matrimonio Inaspettato by Cimarosa in Pisa and Ravenna. Mr.
Alaimo made his debut in the U.S.A. in Simon
Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani) with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine, title that marked also his debut
at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Other debuts include: Poliuto
at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Simon Boccanegra
and
Lucia di Lammermoor
at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo,
La Traviata
in Rome directed by Franco Zeffirelli,
L’Elisir
d’Amore in Vienna.
Future plans: Guillaume Tell at the Théâtre Royal de
la Monnaie in Brussels Evelino Pidò conducting and in Monte Carlo;
Falstaff in Marseille, Ravenna
(and on tour in Italy); Luisa
Miller in Liège;
Le Nozze di Figaro in Los Angeles;
Simon Boccanegra (Paolo)
at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opposite Placido Domingo in the title
role; L'Elisir d'Amore
as Dottor Dulcamara in Berlin and as
Belcore at the Metropolitan in New York; La
Cenerentola under the baton of Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Salzburg
Festival; Le Comte Ory
(Raimbaud) at the Teatro alla Scala in
Milan; Don Quichotte
at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, Yannis
Kokkos directing. Mr. Alaimo will also star in other important future
productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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