Alessandro Fisher

The British tenor Alessandro Fisher was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme from 2018 to 2021 and is an associate artist with The Mozartists. He has worked with conductors such as Martyn Brabbins, David Bates, Laurence Cummings, Diego Fasolis, Anna-Maria Helsing, Kirill Karabits, Ludovic Morlot, Ian Page, Simon Rattle, Dinis Sousa and Mark Wigglesworth.

He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 as Lucano in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Other opera engagements have included performances for Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, at the Grange Festival and for Opera Rara, as well as for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. As a recitalist he has appeared at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Leeds Lieder Festival and the Oxford International Song Festival.

His engagements in the 2022/23 season included Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Grange Festival, Le nozze di Figaro with The Mozartists, First Brother in Kurt Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden with the London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle, Donizetti’s Messa da Requiem with the Orchestra della Svizerra Italiana, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the Huddersfield Choral Society and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In the 2023/24 season he appeared in Bent Sørensen’s St Matthew Passion with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, in The Mendelssohns at the Oxford International Song Festival and in the project 1774 — A Retrospective with The Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall.

Alessandro Fisher has been noted as ‘One to Watch’ by the magazine Gramophone, who also selected his debut album with the pianist Anna Tilbrook, A Gardener’s World, recently recorded with Rubicon Classics and released in May 2024, as ‘Editor’s Choice’.

Alessandro Fisher studied modern and medieval languages at Cambridge University, where he was a choral scholar at Clare College, and continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. In 2016 he was a prizewinner at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and in 2022 he received a scholarship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.