Emerging from a family of Sicilian immigrants in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, the tenor cultivated his voice by busking in cabarets before being discovered by Gabriel Dussurget and largely teaching himself the operatic repertoire. A victory at the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition launched his professional debut as Alfredo in La traviata with the Glyndebourne tour, leading… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Tenor 2022 Great Performances 1971 Tosca 2001 Bizet: Carmen 2010 ★ 8.5 Verdi: Don Carlos 1996
Don Carlos, Infante of Spain ★ 10 Lucie de Lammermoor 2004
Edgard Ravenswood ★ 9 The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Madama Butterfly 2016
Lt. B. F. Pinkerton ★ 8 Gounod: Romeo et Juliette 1994
Romeo ★ 8 The Metropolitan Opera: Aida 2012
Radamès ★ 8 The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine 2009
Ruggero ★ 8 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette 2007
Roméo ★ 8 Roméo et Juliette 2002
Roméo ★ 7.7 Bizet: Carmen 2010
Don José ★ 7 Manon Lescaut - Metropolitan Opera 2016
Des Grieux ★ 7 Le Roi Arthus - Bastille 2015
Lancelot ★ 7 Don Carlo 2014
Don Carlo ★ 7 Roberto Alagna à Versailles - Un siècle d'opéra français - 2009 2012
Ténor ★ 7 Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore 2002
Nemorino ★ 6 The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila 2018
Samson ★ 6 Verdi: Aida 2006
Radamès ★ 6.9 Tosca 2001
Mario Cavaradossi Series ★ 6.1 Great Performances 1971
Romeo Oh la la, Alagna ! De la Sicile à Little Italy 2024
Ténor Roberto Alagna aux Folies Bergère, le concert anniversaire 2024
Ténor Le Sicilien aux arènes de Nîmes 2022
Ténor Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci - Royal Opera House 2019/20 2020
Canio The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen 2019
Don José Verdi: Otello (Wiener Staatsoper Live) 2018
Otello Bizet: Carmen 2017
Don José Carmen - Opéra National de Paris 2017
Don José The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca 2013
Cavaradossi Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner 2011
Joseph Tichatschek The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo 2010
Don Carlo Orphee et Eurydice 2008
Orphee Rigoletto 1994
Il Duca di Mantova Jules Massenet: Manon -
Le Chevalier des Grieux Start from another title 
