Alexander Sprague

Alexander Sprague’s most recent and future engagements include SNOUT A Midsummer Night’s Dream Teatro de la Maestranza, GASTONE La Traviata Glyndebourne Opera, ARON in the world premiere of Mikael Karlsson’s Fanny and Alexander La Monnaie, concerts of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Fondazione Arturo Toscanini Parma and Festival Respighi Bologna, PRINZ LILO TARO Die Blume von Hawaii Theater Magdeburg, and APOLLO L’Orfeo Royal Danish Opera.

Past performances include SHEPHERD II/APOLLO L’Orfeo Royal Opera House, Covent Garden at the Roundhouse, YWAIN Birtwistle’s Gawain Salzburger Festspiele, OCTAVIUS in the world premiere of Battistelli’s Julius Caesar Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, The Fairy Queen Staatstheater Stuttgart, ELECTRICIAN Powder Her Face, ACIS Acis and Galatea and PLIABLE/SUPERSTITION Pilgrim’s Progress ENO, GRAF ELEMER Arabella Theater Dortmund, ELECTRICIAN Powder Her Face and EDUARDO Exterminating Angel Royal Danish Opera, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao and Nationale Reisopera, JONATHAN DALE Kevin Put’s Silent Night Wexford Festival and Atlanta Opera, FLUTE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Stadttheater Klagenfurt, EURIMACO and GIOVE Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria Longborough Festival, SCARAMUCCIO Ariadne auf Naxos Edinburgh Festival and Opéra National de Montpellier, EDGAR LINTON Wuthering Heights and SCARAMUCCIO Opéra de Nancy, JANEK The Makropulos Case and THIBAULT Les Vêpres Siciliennes and JÜNGLING Moses und Aron Welsh National Opera and on tour to the ROH, GONZALVE L’heure espagnole and GASTON/VICTORIN Die Tote Stadt Angers Nantes Opera and Opéra National de Lorraine, PASTORE II Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Opéra National de Lorraine and Les Talens Lyriques at the Salle Pleyel, ALBERT HERRING (title role) and KUDRYASH Katya Kabanova Opera North, DON OTTAVIO Don Giovanni Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg and Opera Theatre Company Dublin, The Golden Dragon and GONZALVE L’heure espagnole Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, NOVICE Billy Budd Göteborg Opera, and LYNGSTRAND The Lady from the Sea Scottish Opera and Edinburgh Festival.

Alexander appeared in concert with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall, London Festival Orchestra at The Royal Festival Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Northern Sinfonia RIAS Kammerchor and in recitals at Leeds Lieder Festival, London Handel Festival and Handel House. He has worked with Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Charles Mackerras, Ingo Metzmacher, Martyn Brabbins, John Wilson, Laurence Cummings, Christophe Rousset as well as Claus Guth, Richard Jones, John Copley and Alvis Hermanis. He studied at The National Opera Studio and The Royal Academy of Music and won the Michael Oliver Prize of the London Handel Singing Competition.