Alex Esposito
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Alex Esposito is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer, best known for singing Mozart roles, especially Leporello in Don Giovanni.[1]
Esposito was born in Bergamo. He debuted at the Royal Opera in 2007 as Alidoro in La Cenerentola and sang Leporello in the 2008/09 and 2013/14 seasons, when he will also sing Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro.[2]
Repertoire
[edit]| Role | Title | Composer |
|---|---|---|
| Lorenzo | I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Bellini |
| Pére Laurence | Roméo et Juliette | Berlioz |
| Méphistophélès | La damnation de Faust | Berlioz |
| Bottom | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Britten |
| Enrico VIII | Anna Bolena | Donizetti |
| Dottor Dulcamara | L'elisir d'amore | Donizetti |
| Alfonso d'Este | Lucrezia Borgia | Donizetti |
| Méphistophélès | Faust | Gounod |
| Argante | Rinaldo | Handel |
| Idreno | Armida | Haydn |
| Simone | La finta semplice | Mozart |
| Figaro Conte d'Almaviva | Le nozze di Figaro | Mozart |
| Don Giovanni Leporello | Don Giovanni | Mozart |
| Guglielmo | Così fan tutte | Mozart |
| Papageno | Die Zauberflöte | Mozart |
| Publio | La clemenza di Tito | Mozart |
| Lindorf Coppélius Miracle Dapertutto | Les contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach |
| Canizzares | Il cordovano | Petrassi |
| Custode | Morte dell'aria | Petrassi |
| Colline | La Bohème | Puccini |
| Orbazzano | Tancredi | Rossini |
| Mustafà | L'Italiana in Algeri | Rossini |
| Selim | Il turco in Italia | Rossini |
| Don Basilio | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini |
| Alidoro | La Cenerentola | Rossini |
| Fernando Villabella | La gazza ladra | Rossini |
| Mosè Faraone | Mosè in Egitto | Rossini |
| Polidoro | Zelmira | Rossini |
| Assur | Semiramide | Rossini |
| Lord Sidney Don Profondo | Il viaggio a Reims | Rossini |
| Mahomet II | Le siège de Corinthe | Rossini |
| Moïse Pharaon | Moïse et Pharaon | Rossini |
| Nonancourt | Il cappello di paglia di Firenze | Rota |
| Creon | Oedipus rex | Stravinsky |
| Nick Shadow | The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky |
| Arlecchino | La vedova scaltra | Wolf-Ferrari |
References
[edit]- ^ "Alex Esposito". www.operaarts.com. Opera Arts. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Alex Esposito". www.roh.org.uk. Royal Opera House. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
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