Carlos Álvarez

Biography

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

Most Known For

Macbeth

as Macbeth

Rigoletto - ROH

as Rigoletto

Katiuska

as Pedro Stakof

Don Giovanni

as Don Giovanni

Verdi: Otello

as Jago

Tem

Le Nozze di Figaro

as Figaro

Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala

as Sharpless

Carmen (Arena di Verona)

as Escamillo

Tosca - Teatro Real

as Barón Scarpia

Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc

as Giacomo

Viva la Mamma!

as Mamma Agata

I Puritani

as Sir Riccardo Forth

Don Giovanni

as Don Giovanni

W.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro

as Il Conte

La Forza Del Destino

as Don Carlo

Mozart: Don Giovanni

as Don Giovanni

The Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly

as SHARPLESS

La del manojo de rosas

as Joaquín