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Nicola Alaimo - Guillaume Tell
Following recent critically-acclaimed performances include 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), 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),
Metropolitan Opera (Falstaff, cond. James Levine and L’Elisir d’Amore, cond.
Maurizio Benini)Nicola Alaimo returns to sing the title role of Rossini
masterpiece, he performed with huge success in Amsterdam and more recently at
the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
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 Paisiello 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 include: 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; La Cenerentola under the baton
of Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Salzburg Festival; Le Comte Ory (Raimbaud)
and Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Don Quichotte at
the Lyric Opera in Chicago, Yannis Kokkos directing; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in
Paris; Il Trovatore and Guillaume
Tell in Monte Carlo. Mr. Alaimo
will also star in other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York.
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