Alexandros Stavrakakis

Greek bass Alexandros Stavrakakis is the First Prize winner of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and is currently member of Semperoper Dresden, where his roles include Colline (La Bohème), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Marchese d’Obigny (La traviata), High Priest of Baal (Nabucco), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro) and Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia). This season at Semperoper he will sing Oroveso, Grande Inquisitore, Sprecher, Reinmar von Zweter, Il Re, Commendatore, Bonze and Vodnik. He will also take part in a La Wally sung in concert with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Further ahead are debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Metropolitan Opera. Stavrakakis also won the 3rd Wagner International Competition in Leipzig in 2016, and received both Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Riga, in 2018.