Akane Takada is a Japanese ballerina and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. Her lead roles have included the title role in Giselle, Nikiya in La Bayadère, Kitri in Don Quixote, and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Born in Paris, into an Armenian family who were originally from Istanbul, Altinoglu studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. After finishing his studies at the Conservatoire, he joined the school's faculty and became director of the conducting class t...

The French bass, Alain Buet, completed his studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Caen and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris; then he went on mastering his vocal techniques under Richard Miller.

Alain Buet embarked on a career as soloist under the direction of such...

Born Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth in Chicago, he began his career as a model before becoming an actor, appearing in local newspaper ads.
His looks did not go unnoticed in Hollywood. He began appearing in films in the late 1930s, making his screen debut in Winterset (1936). His film activit...

Alberto Allegrezza is a singer, a musician, a dramatist and an actor. He graduated in recorder at the Department of Early Music of the Vicenza’s Conservatory “A. Pedrollo”.
Since 2015, he teaches historical gestures and staging for the baroque opera laboratories in Bazzano (BO), within the framew...

As a conductor, Alejo Pérez possesses an inherent stylistic awareness and the ability to bring every detail of the most complex score to life. This has consistently secured him a firm place on the international opera and concert scene.

In recent seasons, the conductor has shown his worth at th...

Aleksandar Denić is a Serbian stage designer and film production designer. He is known as a scenographer of feature films, as well as for his work at major theatres including Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Paris, Zurich, Wien, Salzburg, Köln and Munich.

Aleš Briscein ( January 25, 1969, Liberec ) is a Czech opera singer, performing in Czech and foreign stages. In 2018, he placed 7th in the ranking of the busiest opera singers from the professional music portal Bachtrack.

He originally studied clarinet and saxophone and then opera singing at the...

Alessandra Marianelli (born 1986) is an Italian soprano. She made her professional debut in 2002 as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro and went on to sing leading roles in the opera houses of her native country and internationally. Her recordings include Amour in Orphée et Eurydice for Decca Records...

Conductor and harpsichordist Alessandro De Marchi is renowned as one of the leading specialists in historically informed performance practice on both historic and modern instruments. His repertoire ranges from the late Renaissance to modern and contemporary music, with particular emphasis on the ...

Alessandro Liberatore born in Rome where he did his musical studies. Winner of the prestigious "Enrico Caruso" and "Zandonai" international competitions, he made his singing debut as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
Pupil of Luciano Pavarotti and under the guidance of Leone Magiera he studied most of...

Graduated from Conservatory “G.Verdi” in Milano, Alessandro Spina is one of the most talented basses of his generation. Trained also in stage acting, he has made his operatic debut as Lunardo in I Quatro Rusteghi by W. Ferrari at Teatro Verdi di Pisa.

He has performed in such venues as Teatro al...

Alessio Pizzech, was born in Livorno in 1972, while still a child he dedicated himself to singing, he worked in a circus up to 18 years and in a moment, from the promise of the theater, critics define him as one of the most significant Italian directors. With extraordinary energy, he stages appro...

Alexander Campbell was born in Sydney, Australia in 1986. He was attracted to ballet at the age of five after seeing the work of his grandmother who was a ballet teacher at the time. Both his maternal grandmother and grandfather, Valma Briggs and Mario Desva, had been professional dancers with Ba...

Alex Esposito is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer, best known for singing Mozart roles, especially Leporello in Don Giovanni.

Esposito was born in Bergamo. He debuted at the Royal Opera in 2007 as Alidoro in La Cenerentola and sang Leporello in the 2008/09 and 2013/14 seasons, when he will ...

Romanian dancer Alina Cojocaru is a former Principal of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet School for six months in 1997 on a Lausanne scholarship and on graduation joined the Kiev Ballet as a principal. After one season with Kiev she entered the corps of The Royal Ballet in 1999, prom...

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher is a British composer, pianist and violinist. Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-l...

German Bass-Baritone Andreas Wolf is a regular guest at international opera houses and concert halls, working with conductors such as William Christie, René Jacobs, Andrea Marcon, Jérémie Rhorer, Raphaël Pichon, Maxim Emelyanychev, Peter Dijkstra, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Alessandro De Marchi, Ri...

Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965) is a British conductor and violinist living in Germany.

Born in Beckenham, United Kingdom, Manze read Classics at Cambridge University. Manze studied violin and worked with Ton Koopman (his director in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra) and Simon Standage (his t...

Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons made his Royal Opera debut in December 2009 with La bohème, and has since returned to conduct Madama Butterfly, Salome, Elektra, Der fliegende Holländer and Der Rosenkavalier, and in the 2017/18 Season conducts Lohengrin. He is Music Director of Boston Symphony Or...

Anja Jung began her career as a soloist at Theatre Freiburg, where she has performed several major roles. Guest engagements have included appearances at Opéra Bastille, the Bavarian State Opera, Theater Kiel, the state theatres of Dortmund, Darmstadt, Brunswick, Hanover and Leipzig, working with ...

She made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera as the Gänsemagd (Goose girl) in Humperdinck's Königskinder, at La Scala as Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, at the Salzburg Festival 2006 as Aminta in his Il re pastore, staged and conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock,and at the Paris Opera as Antonia in...

Annie Dutoit was born in Switzerland in a family of prominent classical musicians. After her secondary studies in classical languages and civilizations (Greek and Latin), she moved to the United States and received a B.A. in comparative literature from Princeton University, an M.A. in journalism ...

Murray was born in Dublin. Having won a number of prizes at the Feis Ceoil, she studied singing at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin) with Nancy Calthorpe, as well as arts and music at University College Dublin. In 1968, she made her Irish opera debut perfo...