Greek bass Alexandros Stavrakakis is the First Prize Winner of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and is a member of the ensemble at Semperoper Dresden, where his roles this season include Chelio (The Love for Three Oranges) Filippo II (Don Carlo) and Colline (La bohème) amongst others.
In seasons past, Alexandros marked his house debuts at Metropolitan Opera, New York, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Schloss Elmau, Verbier Festival and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as well as Carnegie Hall and Symphony Hall Boston.
This season he will make important house and role debuts with Hermann (Tannhäuser) at Houston Grand Opera and Vodnik (Rusalka) at Teatro del Liceu Barcelona. On the concert scene, he will sing a new commission by Fazil Say and Mozart’s Requiem with the Luzerner Symphonieorchester. Future seasons will see his return to the Metropolitan Opera New York, as well as house debuts at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, L’Opéra de Montreal, L’Opéra national de Paris and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
As a soloist, Alexandros has appeared in opera productions of the Greek National Opera and the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, worked in numerous radio broadcasts and recitals in Athens, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Syros (Apollo Theater), Corfu, Kefalonia, Delphi, Dresden, Berlin, Baden-Baden, Kaiserslautern, Landau, Bad Elster, Istanbul, collaborating with orchestras such as the Greek Symphony Orchestra of ERT, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Deutsche Philarmonie Orchester SWR, Staatskapelle Dresden,
He collaborated with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ivan Repušić, Omer Meir Wellber, John Fiore, Andris Nelsons, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Nikolaj Znaider, Michele Mariotti, Damiano Michiletto Jonathan Darlington, Daniele Rustioni, Joana Mallwitz, Marco Armiliato, Antonello Manacorda and Mark Wigglesworth. Notable stage directors include Damiano Michiletto, Christof Loy, David Mc Vicar, Katharina Thalbach, Andreas Homoki, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Grischa Asagaroff and Dmitry Bertman.
Alexandros’ recital programmes range from Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann to Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
He began his musical education at an early age receiving piano lessons from his mother. At the age of eight, he became a member of the Children’s Choir of ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation). Two years later he joined the ”Manolis Kalomiris Children Choir” of the National Conservatory, which allowed him to participate in numerous opera productions of the Greek National Opera. In 2014, he graduated with honours and special prize and in the same year he was awarded the Maria Callas Scholarship.
In addition to his victory at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Alexandros won the 3rd Wagner International Competition in Leipzig and is a winner of the Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition (Riga, 2018).