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Promotional photograph of Alex Rosen
Promotional photograph of Alex Rosen

About Alex

American bass Alex Rosen has built longstanding partnerships with many of the world’s foremost ensembles, including Pygmalion, Il Pomo d’Oro, Jupiter Ensemble, and Les Arts Florissants. A frequent collaborator with leading conductors such as Raphaël Pichon, Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie, and Jonathan Cohen, he is a sought-after artist across both opera and concert stages.

This season features an array of projects and debuts. He embarks on four major tours: Handel’s Theodora (Valens) with Jupiter Ensemble; two tours of Bach’s St Matthew Passion- one with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, and the other with Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen; and Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Achilla) with Il Pomo d’Oro, to be recorded by Warner Classics. He makes a notable house and role debut at Opéra national de Paris as Bembo Ercole Amante and returns to Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Additional concert engagements include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Raphaël Pichon, marking his Carnegie Hall debut; Haydn’s The Creation with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Jonathan Cohen, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, also with Cohen. He also reprises his role in Philip Venables’ We Are The Lucky Ones at Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts and Tiroler Festspiele Erl.

Recent engagements included role debuts as Giove in Festival d'Aix-en-Provence ‘s new production of La Calisto and as Eight in the world premiere of Philip Venables’ We Are The Lucky Ones at Dutch National Opera. He made two house debuts; as Raphael in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at Opera Köln and as the King of Scotland in Handel’s Ariodante at Opéra national du Rhin. He also returned to work with Il Pomo d’Oro for a European tour of Alcina (Melisso) and to NederlandseReisopera as Seneca in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

Alex is based in Paris

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Season Highlights

Oct 2025 - Oct 2025
Jupiter Ensemble Tour
Handel: Theodora (Valens) Thomas Dunford (conductor)
Dec 2025
Musiikkitalo Helsinki
Haydn: The Creation Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Dec 2025
Philharmonie Cologne
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Gürzenich-Orchester Köln Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Feb 2026
Il pomo d'Oro Tour
Handel: Giulio Cesare Francesco Corti (conductor)
Mar 2026 - Apr 2026
Arcangelo Tour
Bach: St Matthew Passion Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
May 2026 - Jun 2026
Opéra national de Paris
A. Bembo: L'Ercole Amante Leonardo García-Alarcón (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

Bembo

Ercole Amante (Nettuno)

Britten

Albert Herring (Superintendent Budd)   •   The Rape of Lucretia (Collatinus)   •   A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince/Bottom)

Cavalli

La Calisto (Giove)

Charpentier

David et Jonathas (Achis)

Handel

Ariodante (The King of Scotland)   •   Alcina (Melisso)   •   Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus)   •   Radamisto (Farasmane)   •   Semele (Cadmus/Somnus)   •   Theodora (Valens)   •   Giulio Cesare (Achille)   •   Riccardo Primo (Berando)

Haydn

Die Schöpfung (Raphael/Adam)

Janáček

Kat’a Kabanová *english* (Dikoj)

Monteverdi

L’incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca)   •   L’Orfeo (Caronte/Plutone)   •   Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo)

Mozart

La clemenza di Tito (Publio)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo/Antonio)   •   Don Giovanni (Masetto)

Purcell

The Fairy Queen (All bass roles)

Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio)

Strauss

Ariadne auf Naxos (Truffaldin)

Venables

We are the lucky ones (Eight)

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Press

  • Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea

    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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

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

    • 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.

  • Handel - Ariodante (II Pomo d'Oro)

    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.

    • 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.

  • Monteverdi - Orfeo

    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.

  • Handel - Alcina

    Philharmonie de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu
    Feb 2023

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

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

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

  • Charpentier - David et Jonathas

    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.