AlexRosen

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• Cavalli | La Calisto - Jupiter

  Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

  Jun 2025 - Jul 2025

  • Another versatile singer was Alex Rosen as the formidable Jupiter. His role presents two clear challenges: making an amoral character somewhat likable, and being both funny and compelling while singing in falsetto as Diana. Though the staging made both tasks harder, I believe Rosen was competent and—by the third act—quite successful. His falsetto is resonant and mellifluous, and his bass voice never descended into the cavernous tone that feels out of place in Cavalli.

    • João Marcos Copertino, Opera Wire
    • 23 July 2025

  • Il remplit la scène, compose un vrai personnage plein de vivacité et d’autorité avec son compère Mercurio, mais surtout il montre une voix souple, ductile, adaptable qui passe indifféremment de la basse à la voix de tête pour imiter Diane. Il nous offre une vraie performance d’acteur et de chanteur, parfaitement au point du point de vue de l’expression, de la diction de la couleur. Un futur chanteur sans doute inévitable dans ce type de répertoire. - He fills the stage, creating a truly vivid and authoritative character alongside his sidekick Mercurio, but above all he displays a supple, flexible and adaptable voice that switches effortlessly from bass to head voice to imitate Diana. He gives us a true performance as both actor and singer, perfectly polished in terms of expression, diction and tone. A future singer who is undoubtedly inevitable in this type of repertoire.

    • Guy Cherqui, Wanderer
    • 17 July 2025

  • Un caractère qui contraste avec celui de Jupiter, campé par la basse américaine Alex Rosen… il déploie un ambitus impressionnant, des graves profonds projetés avec autorité, rondeur et surtout une justesse rare, aux aigus de contre-ténor déclamés dans une sorte de parlé-chanté extrêmement comique, accentué encore par son aisance scénique, surtout lors de ses manigances avec Mercure. - Jupiter, played by American bass Alex Rosen… he displays an impressive range, with deep bass notes projected with authority, roundness and, above all, rare accuracy, and countertenor high notes delivered in a kind of extremely comical spoken-sung style, further accentuated by his ease on stage, especially during his scheming with Mercury.

    • Rémi Clavier, Olyrix
    • 14 July 2025

  • Alex Rosen se joue de ces nombreuses transpositions de registre, en utilisant la voix de tête …et en étant capable de changer fréquemment de registre, parfois dans la même phrase, ce qui n’a pas manqué d’ajouter un bel effet comique. - Alex Rosen plays with these numerous register transpositions, using his head voice ... and being able to change register frequently, sometimes within the same sentence, which added a nice comic effect.

    • Thierry Verger, Forum Opera
    • 18 July 2025

  • La distribution vocale est en tous points brillante…. Jupiter a le timbre souverain d’Alex Rosen. Il n’hésite pas à transformer sa belle voix de basse envoix de tête pour se faire passer pour Diane. Sourires du public ! - The vocal casting is brilliant in every respect... Jupiter has the commanding timbre of Alex Rosen. He does not hesitate to transform his beautiful bass voice to pass himself off as Diana. Smiles from the audience!

    • André Peyrègne, Classic News
    • 21 July 2025

• Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Seneca

  Reisopera Netherlands

  Apr 2025 - May 2025

  • Een ander vocaal en theatraal hoogtepunt was voor mij de sterfscène van Seneca. De bas Alex Rosen heeft een prachtige donkere en warme stem, die hij werkelijk indrukwekkend weet te gebruiken. Daarbij acteert hij geloofwaardig en ontroerend. - Another vocal and theatrical highlight for me was Seneca's death scene. Bass Alex Rosen has a beautiful dark and warm voice, which he uses to great effect. His acting is also credible and moving.

    • Bo van der Meulen, Place de l'Opera
    • 09 April 2025

• Venables | We Are The Lucky Ones - Eight

  Dutch National Opera

  Mar 2025

  • Enfin Alex Rosen (Eight) allie basse éloquente et roulade arrière avec une aisance remarquable. - Finally, Alex Rosen (Eight) combines eloquent bass and back roll with remarkable ease.

    • Anne Ibos-Augé, Diapason
    • 20 March 2025

• Handel | Alcina - Melisso

  il Pomo d'Oro Europe Tour

  Dec 2024

  • Alex Rosen prête sa voix de basse solidement ancrée au personnage de Melisso. Si un seul air lui est dévolu, il y projette, cependant, une solide empreinte dans un registre grave riche de résonances. - Alex Rosen lends his solid bass voice to the character of Melisso. Although he only has one aria, he makes a strong impression with his rich, resonant low register.

    • Frédérique Epin, Olyrix
    • 09 December 2024

• Charpentier | David et Jonathas - Samuel / Achis

  Lorraine, France

  Jan 2024

  • Whether in the abysmal bass of the Shadow of Samuel or in the authority and brilliance of King of the Philistines Achis, Alex Rosen is impeccable with the ideal darkness of the vocal timbre.

    • resmusica
    • 16 January 2024

• Handel | Alcina - Melisso

  Philharmonie de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu

  Feb 2023

  • Bass Alex Rosen (Melisso) , asserts a solid vocal presence, impressive with its resonant bass.

    • Olyrix
    • 08 February 2023

  • Alex Rosen impresses with his warm, powerful, even beguiling voice, giving Melisso a real interest

    • Concerto Net
    • 08 February 2023

  • Alex Rosen brings the velvet of his tone and his exemplary pronunciation to the too short role of Melisso

    • Alta Musica
    • 08 February 2023

• Monteverdi | Orfeo- Charon

  Barcelona - Gran Teatre del Liceu

  Nov 2022

  • Alex Rosen's Charon was also among the best performances of the evening with a robust, seamless voice, in that deep register that characterizes the gates of Hades.

    • Bachtrack
    • 21 November 2022

• Handel | Ariodante (II Pomo d'Oro) - Lurcanio

  Barcelona - Palace of Catalan Music

  Nov 2022

  • Alex Rosen's voice is majestic: broad and forceful, he shone for the strength of his bass in the aria of the first act Voli co' la sua tromba.

    • Scherzo
    • 04 November 2022

  • The young California bass Alex Rosen has a splendid instrument and sings with the ideal expression a thankless role and little drawn theatrically. The aria "Voli colla sua tromba la fama" is brilliant and he knows how to use it with the desired poise and brilliance.

    • Opera World
    • 05 November 2022

• Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea - Seneca

  Aix-en-Provence Festival

  Jul 2022

  • The Seneca by Alex Rosen brings its grave welcome to this concert of tessitura which is an opera by Monteverdi (who remembers the madrigal). The emission is calm, the declamation stoic, while the hyper-bass is reached with delicacy and lands on the floor of the set, at the moment of agony. He seems to have two tongues in his mouth, one harsh, the other soft. Like his partners, the singer modulates each incise, even each important word. Endowed with their madrigal ornamentation, they become sound images prefiguring, who death, who power, who desire, who ecstasy.

    • Olyrix
    • 11 July 2022

  • Alex Rosen portrays a Seneca full of good words and philosophy, seeking the most faithful resonance with each note. It thus hatches a line of accumulation, joining favourably the process of thought and the “operation” of singing.

    • Opera Online
    • 11 July 2022

  • How serious are those of Alex Rosen in his role as Seneca! A bass in top form, with a voice of sweeping strength and that presented us, along with Ardetti's Nerone, one of the most spectacular duets of the entire night, due to the extreme dedication of both singers.

    • Platea Magazine
    • 12 July 2022

  • Alex Rosen was a portentous Seneca, with a beautiful deep bass voice.

    • Mundo Clasico
    • 14 July 2022

  • Alex Rosen portrays a remarkable Seneca; the scene of his death is one of the highlights of the work, interspersed with eloquent silences, which end on an extraordinary final note in the ultimate bass.

    • ResMusica
    • 19 July 2022