Sandro Rossi
Countertenor
The Flemish-Italian countertenor Sandro Rossi initially learnt violin and piano, before completing a bachelor’s degree in drama at the Antwerp Conservatory. He performed in the folk band New Rising Sun and worked as an actor, director and lecturer. Subsequently he completed his singing studies at the Antwerp Conservatory with Stephanie Friede and Guy de Mey. In 2023 he won second prize at the Concorso Internazionale San Colombano.
He participated in the advanced training programmes of the Accademia del Belcanto ‘Rodolfo Celletti’ and the Summer Opera in Tel Aviv, and in the Lidal North International Opera Workshop of the Norwegian Opera in Oslo. He also took part in masterclasses with Sonia Prina, Sara Mingardo, Vivica Genaux, Deborah Voigt, Jennifer Larmore and Michael Schade.
His early roles included First Witch /Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas) in a production by Muziektheater Transparant at De Singel in Antwerp, Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) at the Festival Mezzano Romantica / Trentino Music Festival and Teseo in Andrew Lawrence-King’s reconstruction of Monteverdi’s Arianna at the Natalya Sats Theatre in Moscow.
His other performances have included Licida in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Prince Nilsky in Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice) under Sigiswald Kuijken at La Petite Bande Summer Academy in Collevecchio and the title role of Giulio Cesare at the Belgrade Baroque Academy.
In the 2025/26 season he has made his German debut at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin as Ottone.