Biography

Nicola Alaimo

Current as of May 2022

Italian baritone Nicola Alaimo is one of the leading singers of his generation. In 2021/22 he was heard as Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Vienna State Opera, Dandini (La Cenerentola) in Bologna, Geronio (Il turco in Italia) in Monte Carlo and Taddeo (L’italiana in Algeri) in Zurich. Following his appearances as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival he will be heard as Dandini and Geronio at the Vienna State Opera as part of a series of guest performances by the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

Recent highlights of his career include Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Taddeo, the title role in Falstaff and Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Falstaff, Raimbaud (Le Comte Ory), Neri Chiaramantesi in Giordano’s La cena delle beffe, Don Pasquale, Ernesto (Il pirata) and Dandini at La Scala, Milan; Dandini at the 2014 Salzburg Festival; Guillaume Tell at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in Brussels, Monte Carlo, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, at the Bavarian State Opera, at the Chorégies d’Orange and in Lyon; Fra Melitone, Dandini, Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Paolo (Simon Boccanegra) at the Paris Opéra; Don Pasquale, Gianni Schicchi, Don Magnifico and Germont (La traviata) at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Francesco (I masnadieri) and Falstaff in Monte Carlo; Germont at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in Toulouse; Sancho Panza (Don Quichotte) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Bartolo at the Arena di Verona; Geronio, Marcello (La bohème), Dandini and Michonnet in Bologna; the title role in Simon Boccanegra in Antwerp; Rigoletto in Marseille; Michonnet and Falstaff in Palermo; Don Magnifico at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam; Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) and Don Pasquale at the Vienna State Opera and Michonnet at the 2021 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He was also heard as Michonnet in concert performances of Cilea’s opera under Marco Armiliato at the 2019 Salzburg Festival.

Nicola Alaimo can look back on a long collaboration with Riccardo Muti, under whose baton he made his Salzburg Festival and Ravenna Festival debuts in Paisiello’s Il matrimonio inaspettato in 2008. His subsequent work with Muti includes Iago (Otello) in Salzburg and Rome, Pharaon (Moïse et Pharaon) in Salzburg, at La Scala and in Rome and Don Pasquale at the Vienna Musikverein, the Ravenna Festival, the Teatro Real and elsewhere.

Since making his debut as Dandini at the Rossini Opera Festival, Nicola Alaimo has been closely associated with Pesaro as a leading Rossinian and has been heard there as Bartolo and Guillaume Tell as well as in leading roles in Matilde di Shabran, La gazzetta, Il turco in Italia and Torvaldo e Dorliska.

Plans include Il barbiere di Siviglia in Florence, Falstaff in Venice and Tokyo, La forza del destino in Paris, Il tabarro in Rome and Nabucco in Geneva.

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Adriana Lecouvreur Salzburger Festspiele 2019 Nicola Alaimo
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