Carlos Álvarez
Date of birth: 1966-08-12
Place of birth: Málaga, Spain
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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 Credits
Tosca - Teatro Real
2021-09-03
A famous singer lives only for art and love. But when she finds herself caught in a web of politics,
Viva la Mamma!
2021-07-15
First seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of a s
The Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly
2022-09-27
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her roma
Le Nozze di Figaro
2001-06-18
I Puritani
2015-03-10
"This is Vienna State Opera live at home". March 2015
Verdi: Otello
2008-08-05
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Otello (2008) Salzburg. 'Otello' is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe V
Don Giovanni
2009-10-03
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni is performed live at the Theater an der Wien in this 1999 pro
Carmen (Arena di Verona)
2014-06-30
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc
Tem
2024-07-23
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
2016-12-07
La Forza Del Destino
2011-11-28
The cast is a dream team wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of Verdis L
W.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
2016-06-26
Filmed production of the 2016 Scala production of the famous opera.
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
2018-06-15
"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and thr
Macbeth
2004-01-01
Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi
Mozart: Don Giovanni
2005-10-12
Lluis Pasqual's powerful production for the Spanish capital sets Da Ponte's timeless story of sleaze
La del manojo de rosas
2020-11-13
La del manojo de rosas, the Teatro de la Zarzuela's most emblematic and popular production, turns 30
Katiuska
2019-03-06
Operetta in two acts. A production by Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, co-produced by Teatro Campoamor de
Don Giovanni
2015-07-04
Mozarts Don Giovanni, in the beautiful staging by legendary Franco Zeffirelli is a spectacle with a
Rigoletto - ROH
2022-11-18
Rigoletto is the sharp-tongued jester of the Duke of Mantua, himself a notorious womanizer. As the D