About
Winner of First Prize at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and an Associate Artist of Classical Opera, Alessandro Fisher is a member of the BBC New Generation Artist Scheme. He read read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar at Clare College, furthering his studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
His operatic engagements have included Don Ottavio Don Giovanni for the Sinfonia d’Amici, Don Polidoro La finta semplice and Christian The First Commandment for Classical Opera, First Armed Man / Priest Die Zauberflöte for Garsington Opera at West Green House, Bellecourt Vert Vert for Garsington Opera, the title role Dardanus and the B Minor Mass for English Touring Opera, Law Student in Matthew Rogers’ And London Burned for the Temple Church and Count Bandiera in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi for Bampton Classical Opera. For Glyndebourne Opera’s Jerwood Project, he sang Banquo in Luke Styles’ Macbeth for at Glyndebourne and in the Linbury Studio Theatre of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
He appeared in Jonathan Miller’s production of the St Matthew Passion at the National Theatre and was featured on BBC Radio 3’s Spirit of Schubert with Graham Johnson. Concert engagements have further included Evangelist St John Passion at Milton Court, Handel Dixit Dominus andMessiah at the Jesuitenkirche, Innsbruck, Testo Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda for Andrew Lawrence-King and The Wallace Collection, Roussel’s Evocations with the BBC Philharmonic, Stravinsky’s Mass with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, recitals at the English Song Festival, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Wigmore Hall and Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery and BBC Radio 3’s Big Chamber Day.
Alessandro Fisher sang Delmiro / Alindo Hipermestra at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival and made his debut at the 2018 Salzburg Festival as Lucano / First Soldier L’Incoronazione di Poppea. He makes his BBC Proms debut this Summer and his current engagements further include Fabio Berenice for the Royal Opera, London, Bastien Bastien und Bastienne for Classical Opera, Fenton Falstaff for The Grange Festival, Britten’s War Requiem in Lincoln Cathedral, Roussel’sEvocations with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, The Complete Songs of Clara Schumann at St John’s, Smith Square, and recitals for Leeds Lieder as well as at the Buxton and Cheltenham Festivals. At the Oxford Lieder Festival, he appears in An Italian Songbook and Schubert Abroad, whilst for Retrospect Opera he will record Harlequin in Ethel Smyth’s Fête Galante with Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez.
His recordings include Theodore in Edward Loder’s Raymond and Agnes with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Richard Bonynge for Retrospect Opera, Bastien und Bastienne with Classical Opera conducted by Ian Page on Signum CD (Nominated for a 2019 International Classical Music Award) and Roussel’s Evocations with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan-Pascal Tortelier on Chandos CD.