Winner of the 2016 Abbiati Prize, the baritone Nicola Alaimo is one of the most appreciated and versatile interpreters of the current international music scene. He is a regular guest of prestigious venues, such as the Metropolitan Opera (New York), La Scala (Milan), Teatro Regio (Turin), Arena (Verona), Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Salzburg Festival, La Monnaie (Brussels), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Opéra of Montecarlo, Opéra of Paris, Opera of Rome, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London), Teatro Real (Madrid), Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Opernhaus (Zurich); and of the Rossini Opera Festival, becoming one of its leading interpreters. Hugely successful was his performance in Guillaume Tell in the theatres of Paris, Montecarlo, Amsterdam, Chorégies d’Orange, Munich, and Brussels.

Nicola Alaimo has worked with some of the most renowned conductors, such as Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Michele Mariotti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Evelino Pidò, Jean Christophe Spinosi, and John Eliot Gardiner.

Some of his more recent engagements included a tour with La Cenerentola, Il Turco in Italia, and a Rossini Gala alongside Cecilia Bartoli under the baton of Gianluca Capuano; a triumphant Falstaff with John Eliot Gardiner in Florence and with Myung Wuhn Chung in Venice; his iconic Melitone in La forza del destino in Paris; an acclaimed Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) in Salzburg; Fastaff in Tokyo and Nice; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Montecarlo; La Cenerentola in Zurich; L’Esule di Roma at London’s Barbican Center for Opera Rara; Nabucco in Geneva; Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena of Verona; Le Comte Ory in Bologna; L’Italiana in Algeri in Zurich; Don Pasquale in Turin; and Gianni Schicchi in Montecarlo.

Following, are some of Nicola Alaimo’s future projects: La Cenerentola and Adriana Lecouvreur in Toulouse; Roberto Devereux in Geneva; Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena of Verona and MET of New York; L’equivoco stravagante at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Adriana Lecouvreur in Madrid; Cenerentola at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; L’elisir d’amore in Montecarlo; Guillaume Tell in Liege; Roberto Devereux at the San Carlo in Naples; Falstaff in Dresden, and La rondine at London’s ROH.