Carlos Álvarez
KS Carlos Álvarez was born in Málaga and studied at the conservatoire in his hometown. He made his debut as a singer in 1990. Since then, his international career has brought him to La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris, Amsterdam, San Francisco, the Hamburg State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Arena di Verona, the Zurich Opera House, the Opera House Bonn, Brussels, Valencia, the Salzburg Festival and the New Yorker Met. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1995 as Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia). Further roles at the Vienna State Opera include Germont (La traviata), Riccardo (I puritani), Posa (Don Carlo), Sulpice (La Fille du régiment), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Don Carlo (Ernani), Don Carlos (La forza del destino), Stankar (Stiffelio), duke of Nottingham (Roberto Devereux), Alphonse XI. (La Favorite), Escamillo (Carmen), Ford (Falstaff) as well as leading roles in Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro. In 2007 Carlos Álvarez was awarded the honorary title for singers in Austria “Kammersänger”. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Alvarez1.en.php
Verdi: Otello
as JagoPart of Tutto Verdi series - Otello (2008) Salzburg. 'Otello' is an opera in four acts by...
Movie pageThe Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly
as SHARPLESSCio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her...
Movie pageLa del manojo de rosas
as JoaquínLa del manojo de rosas, the Teatro de la Zarzuela's most emblematic and popular production,...
Movie pageCarmen (Arena di Verona)
as EscamilloHigh Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by...
Movie pageKatiuska
as Pedro StakofOperetta in two acts. A production by Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, co-produced by Teatro Campoamor...
Movie pageDon Giovanni
as Don GiovanniWolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni is performed live at the Theater an der Wien in this 1999...
Movie pageMozart: Don Giovanni
as Don GiovanniLluis Pasqual's powerful production for the Spanish capital sets Da Ponte's timeless story of...
Movie pageTosca - Teatro Real
as Barón ScarpiaA famous singer lives only for art and love. But when she finds herself caught in a web of...
Movie pageViva la Mamma!
as Mamma AgataFirst seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of...
Movie pageTeatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
as Giacomo"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and...
Movie pageMacbeth
as MacbethCarlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria...
Movie pageI Puritani
as Sir Riccardo Forth"This is Vienna State Opera live at home". March 2015
Movie pageLa Forza Del Destino
as Don CarloThe cast is a dream team wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of...
Movie pageW.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
as Il ConteFilmed production of the 2016 Scala production of the famous opera.
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