Roberto Alagna Tenor

Season 24/25 Artist

Throughout his thirty-year career, Roberto Alagna has amassed a repertoire that includes over sixty roles (Alfredo, Manrico, Nemorino, Calaf, Radamès, Rodolfo, Don José, Mario, Werther…). In 2014, he performed the title role in Otello at the Chorégies d’Orange Festival and then went on to expand his repertoire with the roles of Eléazar in La Juive (Munich, 2016), Samson in Samson et Dalila (Vienna, 2018), and the title role in Andrea Chénier (London, 2019). He also likes to explore lesser-known works, such as Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, Le Cid and La Navarraise, Lalo’s Fiesque, Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac, Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus, and Meyerbeer’s Vasco de Gama... Two operas have even been written for him, Vladimir Cosma’s Marius et Fanny and David Alagna’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man. He makes regular forays into the realms of popular music. Indeed, his Little Italy singing tour, a tribute to his origins and Italian musical culture in all its variety, has taken him to over fifteen French cities. In June 2014, he took part in a special performance in Fez entitled Mediterraneo, which featured sacred and traditional works and works from the opera repertoire. He has participated in numerous events ranging from singing La Marseillaise on the Champs-Elysées on July 14, 2005 to performing in a concert in the gardens of the Château de Versailles in 2009 under the baton of Michel Plasson. He has also appeared in several films, including Benoît Jacquot’s Tosca in 2001 and Barbara Willis Sweete’s Romeo and Juliet in 2002. His discography, on the Erato, Sony, EMI, and Deutsche Grammophon labels covers a wide range of recordings: from full-length performances to duos, oratorios, collections of great lyrical works, operas, sacred arias, and songs. Credo, Viva Opéra, Airs de Berlioz, Bel canto, Robertissimo, Luis Mariano, Sicilien, Pasión, and My Life is an Opera (which illustrates his life and his career through fifteen original arias and duets) Malèna (a tribute to the Neapolitan and Sicilian songbooks), and Puccini in Love (with Aleksandra Kurzak) are just some of the many albums that make up a catalogue that bears testimony to the musical eclecticism which has marked his career. During the 2019-2020 Season, he sang in Don Carlo at the Paris Opera, Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Pagliacci at London’s Royal Opera House, Turandot at the Vienna Staatsoper, Fedora (Loris Ipanov) at Milan’s La Scala, and Otello at the Munich Festival.