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Nicola Alaimo - Guillaume Tell
Following
recent critically-acclaimed performances at the 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), Nederlandse Opera (Rossini’s Guillaume Tell,
title role), 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 returns to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro where in
the past seasons he was appreciated as Dandini in La Cenerentola, Bartolo
in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Aliprando in Matilde di Shabran,
roles that honored him as one of the greatest Rossini’s operas interpreter of
our generation.
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 for Moïse 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,
Falstaff (Sir John Falstaff) at the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon ,
L’Elisir d’Amore in Vienna.
Future
plans:
Guillaume Tell in Brussels (cond. Evelino Pidò); Falstaff at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Marseille, Ravenna and at the Fujiwara Opera
in Tokyo; Il Trovatore at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Luisa Miller
in Liège; 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 Munich and as Belcore at the Metropolitan in New
York; La Cenerentola under the baton of Jean-Christophe Spinosi and La
Forza del Destino 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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