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Alasdair Kent

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“Sound[ing] to the bel canto born with his evenly-produced tenor, refined technique and intense expressiveness,” (Opera News) and with a “voice so beautiful.. it’s like listening to sunshine,” (Opera-Világ) Australian tenor Alasdair Kent is gaining notice throughout the world for his “serious bel canto credentials.. with finesse in the melismatic pyrotechnics and a lyrical legato tone up to some very high notes” (Washington Classical Review).

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Following his European debut with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Il cavaliere Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims, Mr. Kent’s international career has seen critically acclaimed debuts across Europe, the United States and Australia. In 2021-22, he makes several important debuts, including his house debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Antonino Fogliani conducting. He returns to The Dallas Opera and debuts with Oper Köln in the same role. He makes a role debut as Pepé in Donizetti’s Deux hommes et une femme at the Konzerthaus Berlin with the Berliner Operngruppe. Kent returns to The Israeli Opera for Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky’s lauded production, and also to Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier in a new production of La Cenerentola. On the concert stage, he debuts at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in L’italiana in Algeri and with Sinfonieorchester Basel for Britten’s Gloriana Symphonic Suite with music director Ivor Bolton conducting.

Mr. Kent started 2020-21 with his role debut as Arturo in 
I puritani with Ópera de Oviedo in Emilio Sagi’s production. He returned to The Israeli Opera for L’italiana in Algeri. In concert he appeared with Insula Orchestra at La Seine Musicale with Laurence Equilbey conducting Magic Mozart, a program of Mozart arias and ensembles, and with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Torino for Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Scheduled engagements also included Il barbiere di Siviglia for his house debut with Opernhaus Zürich and performances with Oper Köln and the Komische Oper Berlin, Magic Mozart at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Die Zauberflöte with The Israeli Opera, and Così fan tutte with Opéra de Toulon, which were cancelled or postponed due to the global pandemic.

In 2019-20, Mr. Kent’s performances included Il conte d’Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Theater Basel, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Opera House Muscat. He made his house debut with the Teatro Regio di Torino, reprising the role of Paolino in Il matrimonio segreto. Performances as Fenton in Falstaff for Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, as Ferrando in Così fan tutte for Opéra National de Bordeaux, and as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni on tour in Israel with Les Musiciens du Louvre were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Performances in 2018-19 included his role debut as Argirio in Tancredi with the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Il matrimonio segreto for the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Così fan tutte with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Israeli Opera, and with the Rete Lirica delle Marche, and L’italiana in Algeri with the Hungarian State Opera. On the concert stage, he appeared as first tenor soloist in performances of Rossini’s Messa di Gloria with the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn. Mr. Kent also featured as Prince Frederic in the world premiere recording of Poul Ruders’ new opera The Thirteenth Child on Bridge Records.

Previous season highlights included his house debut at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in Mosè in Egitto, as well as principal roles in L’italiana in Algeri & La Cenerentola with Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Opéra de Toulon, the Hungarian State Opera, Portland Opera and Opera Queensland, a new production of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with Opera Philadelphia, as well as concerts with The Dallas Opera, and in gala concert at Carnegie Hall for the Licia Albanese-Puccini and the Gerda Lissner Foundations.

The tenor has won First Prizes in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation Bel Canto Award, the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, the Loren L. Zachary Society National Vocal Competition, the Mildred Miller International Voice Competition, the Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition, and both First Prize and the Audience Prize in the Academy of Vocal Arts’ Giargiari Bel Canto Competition. He was also awarded the Marten Bequest by the Australia Council, one of Australia’s most important artistic awards.

Mr. Kent is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where his roles included Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He is a proud alumnus of Opera Philadelphia’s Emerging Artist Program, the Merola Opera Program, the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, and spent two seasons with Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Young Artist. He is certified to provide first aid by St John Ambulance Australia, and is a polyglot, speaking English, Italian, German and French. Kent makes his home in Basel, Switzerland.

September 2021

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