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Grace Hewett

Grace Hewett

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt



About Alex

American bass, Alex Rosen is quickly finding a home in the concert, operatic, and song repertoire. After completing his studies at the Juilliard School, Alex Rosen made his international debut with Les Arts Florissants, under the direction of William Christie, in two tours of Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Acis and Galatea.

This 2024-25 season, Alex makes two house debuts; first, at Opera Köln as Raphael in Haydn’s Die Schöpfungand later as The King of Scotland in Handel’s Ariodante at Opéra national du Rhin. Following these debuts, he will return to work with il Pomo d’Oro on their European tour of Alcina (Melisso), to Dutch National Opera and Ballet for the world premiere of Philip Venables We Are The Lucky Ones, to work with Nederlandse Reisopera in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence for their new production of Cavalli's La Calisto (Giove). On the concert platform, Alex will sing Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and two performances of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea.

Last season, Alex joined Theatre de Caen’s tour of David et Jonathas around France, performed the role of Alidoro La Cenerentola with Theatre du Capitole, sung the roles of Parson/Badger The Cunning Little Vixen at Detroit Opera and returned to Aix-en-Provence festival for Monteverdi’s ll ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Il tempo/Nettuno/Antinuoo). On the concert platform he toured with Les Arts Florissant around Japan and South Korea performing St John’s Passion, sung performances of Handel’s Messiah across Europe with Accentus and Honegger’s Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher with the Berliner Phiharmonic/Alan Gilbert.

Alex is based in Paris

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt



Season Highlights

Oct 2024
Oper Köln
Die Schopfung (Raphael) Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Opéra National du Rhin
Ariodante (Il Re di Scozia/The King of Scotland) Christopher Moulds (conductor)
Dec 2024
MusikTheater an der Wien, Teatro Real de Madrid, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Alcina (Melisso) il Pomo d'Oro Francesco Corti (conductor)

Selected Repertoire

BrittenAlbert Herring (Superintendent Budd)   •   The rape of Lucretia (Collatinus)   •   A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince/Bottom)
CharpentierDavid et Jonathas (L’Ombre de Samuel / Achis)
HandelAriodante (il Re)   •   Alcina (Melisso)   •   Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus)   •   Radamisto (Farasmane)   •   Semele (Cadmus/Somnus)
JanáčekKat’a Kabanová *english* (Dikoj)
MonteverdiL’Orfeo (Caronte/Plutone)   •   Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo)   •   L’incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca)
MozartLe nozze di Figaro (Bartolo/Antonio)   •   Don Giovanni (Masetto/il Commendatore)
PurcellThe Fairy Queen (All bass roles)
RossiniIl barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio)
StraussAriadne auf Naxos (Truffaldin)

News

Press

  • Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea

    Aix-en-Provence Festival
    Jul 2022
    • The Seneca by Alex Rosen brings its grave welcome to this concert of tessitura which is an opera by Monteverdi (who remembers the madrigal). The emission is calm, the declamation stoic, while the hyper-bass is reached with delicacy and lands on the floor of the set, at the moment of agony. He seems to have two tongues in his mouth, one harsh, the other soft. Like his partners, the singer modulates each incise, even each important word. Endowed with their madrigal ornamentation, they become sound images prefiguring, who death, who power, who desire, who ecstasy.

    • Alex Rosen portrays a Seneca full of good words and philosophy, seeking the most faithful resonance with each note. It thus hatches a line of accumulation, joining favourably the process of thought and the “operation” of singing.

    • How serious are those of Alex Rosen in his role as Seneca! A bass in top form, with a voice of sweeping strength and that presented us, along with Ardetti's Nerone, one of the most spectacular duets of the entire night, due to the extreme dedication of both singers.

    • Alex Rosen was a portentous Seneca, with a beautiful deep bass voice.

    • Alex Rosen portrays a remarkable Seneca; the scene of his death is one of the highlights of the work, interspersed with eloquent silences, which end on an extraordinary final note in the ultimate bass.