Born in Bergamo, Alex Esposito has rapidly emerged as one of the most interesting young Italian basses of his generation and is especially noted for his interpretations of works by Mozart and Rossini. Mr. Esposito begins the 2011-12 season at the Vienna State Opera with Don Giovanni (Leporello) – a role he will also sing during this season at Venice’s La Fenice, Valencia’s Palau de les Arts and London’s Royal Opera. He also appears at the Netherlands Opera in the title role of Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia and as Dandini in La Cenerentola at Paris’s Opera Bastille and the Opera de Monte Carlo.

Future engagements include: Don Giovanni in Munich, Venice, London, Vienna, Berlin, Toulouse and San Diego; La Cenerentola (Dandini) in Paris, Munich and Vienna; Il Turco in Italia (Selim) in Amsterdam; Le Nozze di Figaro in Paris; Die Zauberflöte in Munich; L’Italiana in Algeri in Marseille; Lucrezia Borgia andL’Elisir d’amore in the Berlin; Così fan tutte in Houston.

Among Mr. Esposito’s recent engagements have been four new productions of Don Giovanni at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival;Die Zauberflöte in Venice and Turin,La Cenerentola in Munich and London;Così fan tutte in Parma and Toulouse; Tancredi, L’Elisir d’amore, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro and William Tell in Rome, Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni at La Scala; La Boheme, La Gazza Ladra and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna; La Clemenza di Tito in Madrid; Figaro in Brussels and Toulouse; La Gazza Ladra, Zelmira, and Mosè in Egitto at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival.

Mr. Esposito has also taken part in the Faurè’s “Requiem” in Verona; Haydn’s “Stabat Mater” conducted by Franz Brüggen at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Turin; Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” in Madrid; as well as Mozart concert arias with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Among the conductors with whom Mr. Esposito collaborates include Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano and Antonio Pappano.

In 2006, Alex Esposito was  recognized by the Italian critics’ most prestigious music prize, the Premio Abbiati, as Best Singer of the 2005-20006 season.