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Biography

In a career spanning forty years, the French-Sicilian tenor Roberto Alagna has performed over sixty roles. In addition to the great works of the repertory, he has also explored lesser-known works through productions, concerts, and recordings. He sings Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama, the rarely performed critical edition of L'Africaine, and Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac in its original 1935 version. Two contemporary operas were written for him: Marius et Fanny by Pagnol and Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné by Hugo. His discography includes integrals, duets, oratorios, poetry anthologies, operas, sacred arias, songs...

In the operatic field, he sang Cavalleria rusticana at the Royal Opera House in London at the end of 2023, then Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He continues with Adriana Lecouvreur at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Tosca at the Chorégies d'Orange and Carmen in Verona. In the spring of 2024, he created a program entitled Seigneur, which he toured under the vaults of several of France's great cathedrals. He also gives a series of tribute concerts to Puccini, notably at La Scala in Milan in June 2024.

During the 2024-2025 season, he appeared in a number of operas and opera concerts, including Fedora in Geneva, Tosca in Vienna, Otello in Puerto Rico, Carmen and Aida in Verona, and Tosca in Torre del Lago. At the same time, in early 2025, he reprised the songs from the musical Al Capone in a singing tour entitled Hors-la-Loi in France and Belgium.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo di Ravenswood), 1995; La Bohème (Rodolfo), 1996, 2001, 2003; Manon (le Chevalier des Grieux), 2004, 2022; Le Trouvère (Manrico), 2003, 2018; Francesca de Rimini (Paolo Il Bello), 2011; Faust (title role), 2011; Werther (title role), 2014; Le Cid (Rodrigue), 2015; Le Roi Arthus (Lancelot), 2015; L'Élixir d'amour (Nemorino), 2015; Carmen (Don José), 2017; La Traviata (Alfredo Germont), 2018; Otello (title role), 2019; Don Carlos (title role), 2019

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