Carlos Álvarez
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”.
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Filmography
The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
2026
as Diego
Tem
2024
Rigoletto - ROH
2022
as Rigoletto
The Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly
2022
as SHARPLESS
Tosca - Teatro Real
2021
as Barón Scarpia
Viva la Mamma!
2021
as Mamma Agata
La del manojo de rosas
2020
as Joaquín
Katiuska
2019
as Pedro Stakof
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
2018
as Giacomo
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
2016
as Sharpless
W.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
2016
as Il Conte
Don Giovanni
2015
as Don Giovanni
I Puritani
2015
as Sir Riccardo Forth
Carmen (Arena di Verona)
2014
as Escamillo
La Forza Del Destino
2011
as Don Carlo
Don Giovanni
2009
as Don Giovanni
Verdi: Otello
2008
as Jago
Mozart: Don Giovanni
2005
as Don Giovanni
Macbeth
2004
as Macbeth
Le Nozze di Figaro
2001
as Figaro