Sergio Alapont

INTRODUCTION

Cutting a magnetizing figure on the podium, Spanish conductor Sergio Alapont is known for his passionate, compelling, and inspirational conducting and is one of the leading conductors of his generation. In 2016, Alapont won the Best Conductor in Italy Award at GBOSCAR– L’Eccellenza dell’Opera.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Recent opera highlights include La rondine at the Opéra-Théâtre de l’Eurometropole de Metz, Nabucco at the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville and the Teatro Real de Madrid, La bohème at Irish National Opera, Carmen at the Teatro Calderon of Valladolid, his US debut conducting La Rondine at Minnesota Opera, a new production of Idomeneo at Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, L’heure espagnol and Gianni Schicchi at Opera Lombardia, La Voix Humaine with the European Youth Orchestra «Ferruccio Busoni», Carmen at the Opera de Oviedo, The Merry Widow at the Teatro Filarmonico – Fondazione Arena di Verona, Le nozze di Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor and Norma at the Teatro Comunale di Treviso, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, and Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi, Poliuto at the Glyndebourne Festival with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, La forza del destino and Don Pasquale at the Opera de Las Palmas, Don Bucefalo at the Wexford Opera Festival, Il capello di paglia di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the Wexford Opera Festival, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo.

Maestro Alapont’s recent appointment as Music Director at Orquestra Clássica do Centro in Coimbra takes him to Portugal for a variety of symphonic repertoire throughout the season.

His most recent/future engagements include Carmen at the Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, and Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, and Alexander Nevsky and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania.

BIOGRAPHY

Equally strong in opera as he is in symphonic repertoire, Maestro Alapont has conducted many of the leading opera and symphony orchestras of the world, always winning outstanding reviews. Orchestras he has led include many in his own country, and guest engagements have taken him to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Ile de France de París, Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est, Orchestre, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Orchestra of The Norwegian National Opera, The Orchestra of the Scottish Opera, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Arena di Verona, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Poznan’s Teatr Wielki, Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana (Palau de Les Arts), Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes in México, and many others. He has conducted the leading artists of our time, including Ermonela Jaho, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Erwin Schrott, Gregory Kunde, Placido Domingo, Juan Pons, Celso Albelo, Anna Pirozzi, Désiree Rancatore, Ainhoa Arteta, Fabio Armiliato, Ewa Plonka, Maximilian Schmidt, Alexander Vinogradov, and Lucio Gallo, to name a few; his recordings are available on the labels of RAI, RTVE, RTÉ Ireland, Euroradio, Signum Classics, Ibs Classical, and Universal Music.

Sergio Alapont’s studies took him to Valencia, Madrid, and Munich before he continued his training at the Conservatoire of Music in Pescara with Donato Renzetti, graduating “Cum Laude”. He also studied with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music of Stockholm, Helmuth Rilling at Bachakademie of Stuttgart, and Masaaki Suzuki at Bach Collegium of Japan. Additionally, he had the opportunity to assist Marco Armiliato at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, Semyon Bychkov, Antonio Pappano, Nicola Luisotti, Enrique Mazzola, and Ottavio Dantone.