AlexRosen
- Bass
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 2024-25 season, Alex makes two house debuts; first, at Opera Köln as Raphael in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and as The King of Scotland in Handel’s Ariodante at Opéra national du Rhin. Following these debuts, he returns to work with il Pomo d’Oro on their European tour of Alcina (Melisso), to Dutch National Opera and Ballet for the world premiere of Philip Venables We Are The Lucky Ones, to NederlandseReisopera for Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence for their new production of Cavalli's La Calisto (Giove). On the concert platform, Alex sings Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and two performances of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea.
Future seasons will see Alex make his house debut at Opéra national de Paris and return to both Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Grand Théâtre de Genève. On the concert stage, he will return to work with Pygmalion, Jupiter Ensemble, il Pomo d’oro and Les Arts Florrisants, amongst others.
Recent highlights include Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Il Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo) at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, The Cunning Little Vixen (Parson/Badger) at Detroit Opera, L’Orfeo (Caronte) with Nederlandse Reisopera, and Handel’s Semele with Opera Philadelphia. On the concert platform, Alex has toured Japan and South Korea with Les Arts Florissants in performances of the St John Passion, toured Europe with Pygmalion in Mozart’s Requiem, and performed Honegger’s Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Alan Gilbert.
A passionate recitalist, Alex maintains an ongoing collaboration with pianist Michał Biel, with whom he won Second Prize at the 2018 International Hugo Wolf Academy Competition. As laureates of the Royaumont Foundation’s Art Song Academy, the duo has performed at distinguished venues including Wigmore Hall and the LIFE Victoria Festival in Barcelona.
Alex Rosen is a graduate of The Juilliard School and made his international debut with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, performing in tours of Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Contact
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Dominic Domingo
Grace Hewett
Representation
Season Highlights
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)
News
Askonas Holt sends 19 artists to Opéra National de Paris in the 2025/26 season
Miles Mykkanen, Germán Olvera and Alex Rosen debut in the world premiere of We Are The Lucky Ones
Carnegie Hall 2025/26: 24 AH artists and new annual celebration in co-presentation with Askonas Holt
15 Askonas Holt artists to appear at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025
Askonas Holt welcomes bass Alex Rosen
Press
Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea
Aix-en-Provence FestivalJul 2022The 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
Handel - Ariodante (II Pomo d'Oro)
Barcelona - Palace of Catalan MusicNov 2022Alex 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 - Orfeo
Barcelona - Gran Teatre del LiceuNov 2022Alex 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 - Alcina
Philharmonie de Paris, Gran Teatre del LiceuFeb 2023Bass 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
Charpentier - David et Jonathas
Lorraine, FranceJan 2024Whether 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
Miles Mykkanen, Germán Olvera and Alex Rosen debut in the world premiere of We Are The Lucky Ones
Miles Mykkanen, Germán Olvera and Alex Rosen take the stage at Dutch National Opera tonight for the world premiere of Philip Venables’ We Are The Lucky Ones singing the roles of Five, Seven and Eight respectively. The production is part of the Opera Forward Festival.
Alex’s appearance this evening also marks his debut at Dutch National Opera. He began the 2024/25 season with his debut at Oper Köln singing Raphael in Die Schopfung conducted by Marc Minkowski. Coming up, Alex returns to Festival Aix-en-Provence making a role debut as Giove in a new production of La Calisto. Next season brings his Carnegie Hall debut singing Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 alongside Laurence Kilsby with the Orchestra of St Luke’s.
For Miles, the appearance follows his debut at Dutch National Opera this past December as Alfred in Barry Kosky’s production of Die Fledermaus conducted by Lorenzo Viotti. This season also saw Miles debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Graf Albert in Die tote Stadt. Next season, Miles sings the title role in the new Metropolitan Opera commission The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Germán returns this summer to the Glyndebourne Festival singing Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra following his appearance at the festival last year as Danilo in The Merry Widow. He also sang Figaro earlier this season at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo.
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