Alice Rossi

With her expressive, colourful and flexible voice, the Italian soprano Alice Rossi is equally sought after to perform Baroque music and to interpret modern works. She made her opera debut in 2013 in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia under Arturo Tamayo in Lugano. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden, where she appeared as Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and La Musica (L’Orfeo).

Alice Rossi has co-created, given the premieres of and performed numerous works by contemporary composers, including José María Sánchez-Verdú’s Il giardino della vita in Lugano, Harrison Birtwistle’s Songs by Myself and Nenia: The Death of Orpheus with Das Neue Ensemble under Stefan Asbury and Birtwistle’s dear dusty moth and Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures at the Eight Bridges Festival in Cologne. She sang Hilda Mack in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers at the Wilhelma Theatre in Stuttgart and the title role in Leo Dick’s Antigone-Tribunal at the Stuttgart State Opera.

As an early music interpreter she has appeared in Caldara’s oratorio San Giovanni Nepomuceno with La Divina Armonia under Lorenzo Ghielmi in Salzburg, performed with the Baroque ensemble Il Gardellino under Peter Van Heyghen at the MA Festival in Bruges and sung cantatas by Bach and Buxtehude at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Her CD recordings include Bach Concertos with La Divina Armonia under Lorenzo Ghielmi and Josef Mysliveček’s oratorio Adamo ed Eva with Il Gardellino under Peter Van Heyghen.

Alice Rossi studied singing at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music Performance and Interpretation degree with Luisa Castellani, and has participated in masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake, Ioan Holender, Robert Holl, Katalin Károly, Helmut Lachenmann, Jennifer Larmore and Mitsuko Shirai. She is currently completing her studies at the opera school of HMDK Stuttgart with Turid Karlsen.

She is a prize-winner of numerous international competitions, including the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck (2015), the Concorso Internazionale Elsa Respighi in Verona (2017), the International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition in Vienna (2017) and the Concorso Internazionale San Colombano in Piacenza (2020).