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
Movie Appearances
Tosca - Teatro Real
as Barón Scarpia
2021
Viva la Mamma!
as Mamma Agata
2021
The Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly
as SHARPLESS
2022
Le Nozze di Figaro
as Figaro
2001
I Puritani
as Sir Riccardo Forth
2015
Verdi: Otello
as Jago
2008
Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
2009
Carmen (Arena di Verona)
as Escamillo
2014
Tem
2024
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
as Sharpless
2016
La Forza Del Destino
as Don Carlo
2011
W.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
as Il Conte
2016
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
as Giacomo
2018
Macbeth
as Macbeth
2004
Mozart: Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
2005
La del manojo de rosas
as Joaquín
2020
Katiuska
as Pedro Stakof
2019
Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
2015
Rigoletto - ROH
as Rigoletto
2022