Michael Alfonsi

Born in Rome, at the age of ten he was selected as the solo voice of the "Sistine Chapel" to perform in front of His Holiness John Paul II , recording CDs and participating in numerous tours in Italy and abroad. In 2000, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , on the centenary of the Tosca opera, gave him a great opportunity by entrusting him with the role of the “Little Shepherd” (alongside Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Placido Domingo and directed by Franco Zeffirelli). Later the same theater also engaged him for "Le joungleur de notre dame" by Massenet (un enfant) and in "The magic flute" by Mozart (dritter knabe). His debut as a tenor took place in 2008, in Lucca, on the occasion of a recital for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Puccini: in the same year he obtained the Diploma