Alessandro Ravasio

The bass Alessandro Ravasio began his career singing in various opera choruses in Italy. His first solo engagements were as Angelotti (Tosca) and High Priest (Nabucco) at the Circolo Musicale Mayr-Donizetti in Bergamo and as Leporello (Don Giovanni) in Skopje.

While still a student he sang the role of Strabone in Giuseppe Sellitti’s La vedova ingegnosa in a conservatory production in Milan. He has sung in various early music ensembles, including Ensemble Micrologus, Concerto Romano, the Accademia d’Arcadia, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri and the Cappella Musicale of the Basilica Santa Maria Mag­giore in Bergamo. He has performed solos in works such as Bach’s St John Passion and Coffee Cantata, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah and Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass, and sung Polifemo in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, Plutone (L’Orfeo), Tempo in Cavalieri’s Rap­presentatione di Anima et di Corpo, Segesto in Bononcini’s Arminio, Testo in Stradella’s Ester, Atrace in Melani’s L’empio punito and Giove in Melani’s Ercole in Tebe.

Recent engagements have included Timagene in Handel’s Poro in Versailles; Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Ensemble Gli Angeli in Vézelay; Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Bach’s Cantata BWV 42 with the Or­ches­tra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Monteverdi madrigals with La Fonte Musica at the Stresa Festival; concerts with the Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri under Giulio Prandi; his role debut as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Bach’s Magni­ficat under Gianluca Capuano at the Festival Bach de Lausanne; Weill’s Die sieben Tod­sünden with the UNIMI Orchestra under Sebastiano Rolli in Milan; Caronte (L’Orfeo) at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona and on a European tour with La Fonte Musica; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with Cremona Antiqua; Speaker / First Priest (Die Zauberflöte) in Treviso and Padua; Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Prandi at the Maggio Musicale Fio­ren­tino; Time in Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth at the Theater an der Wien and Furore / Caronte in Landi’s La morte di Orfeo under Stéphane Fuget in Versailles.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included Mozart’s Requiem with the or­chestra I Pomeriggi Musicali under Diego Fasolis in Taranto and Lucera; Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore with Intende Voci in Rome; Zuniga (Carmen) in Treviso, Padua and Rovigo; Clistene in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade with LaFil Filarmonica di Milano under Federico Maria Sardelli; Furore / Caronte at the Theater an der Wien; Speaker / First Priest in Rovigo; Bach’s St John Passion with il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev at the Teatro Petruz­zelli in Bari and concerts with the Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Modo Antiquo and La Fonte Musica.