Nicola Alaimo - Gianni Schicchi
One of the leading artists of his generation Nicola Alaimo recently gained great
successes at the Teatro Regio in Turin (Sir Riccardo Forth, I Puritani; Gérmont, Traviata)
at the Salzburg Festival (Dandini, La Cenerentola), at the Rossini Opera
Festival, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam
Opéra de Monte Carlo and Paris-TCE (Guillaume Tell - title role), at the
Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale - title role; Rimbaud, Comte
Ory), at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, cond.
Riccardo Muti
and Don Pasquale, cond. Bruno Campanella), in London (Belisario -
title role, recorded by Opera Rara) at the Opéra de Paris (Dandini, La
Cenerentola; Fra Melitone, La Forza del Destino), at the Teatro Real
de Madrid (Don Pasquale, cond. Riccardo Muti), at the Opéra de Monte Carlo
(Stankar, Stiffelio cond. Maurizio Benini), at the Metropolitan Opera (Falstaff,
cond. James Levine, L'Elisir d'Amore, cond. Maurizio Benini), in Berlin (L'Elisir
d'Amore).
Future
plans include: Falstaff (title role)
and La Cena delle Beffe at La Scala in Milan; La Gazzetta (Don
Pomponio) and a recital at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; I Puritani in
Madrid; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris (Opéra National); Leoncavallo’s Zazà and
Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini in London (concerts and recordings for Opera
Rara) while at the Opera House Covent Garden he will perform La Traviata; Simon
Boccanegra (title role) in Antwerp and Luxemburg; Don Quichotte (title
role) at the Lyric Opera in Chicago; Il Trovatore and I Masnadieri in
Monte Carlo; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Santander; L’Italiana in Algeri and
other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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