Awarded a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Associate Artist of The Mozartists and a former member of the BBC’s New Generation Artists Scheme, Alessandro Fisher won First Prize at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar at Clare College, furthering his studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He made his Salzburg Festival debut as Lucano L’Incoronazione di Poppea and his operatic engagements have further included Delmiro / Alindo Hipermestra for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Fabio Berenice for the Royal Opera, London, Bastien Bastien und Bastienne, Don Polidoro La finta semplice and Christian Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes for The Mozartists, Bellecourt Vert Vert for Garsington Opera, the title role in Dardanus for English Touring Opera and Fenton Falstaff for The Grange Festival.

His recordings include L’Incoronazione di Poppea with Les Arts Florissants on Harmonia Mundi CD, Bastien und Bastienne with The Mozartists on Signum CD (nominated for a 2019 International Classical Music Award), Roussel’s Évocations with the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos CD and Dame Ethel Smyth’s Fête Galante on Retrospect Opera CD.

Engagements in 2021 / 2022 include the B Minor Mass with the New London Orchestra, Britten Les Illuminations with the Ulster Orchestra, Mendelssohn Elias at the Badisches Staatstheater Klagenfurt, Monteverdi Vesperae della beate Vergine with La Nuova Musica at London’s Wigmore Hall, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 3 and On Wenlock Edge with the BBC Philharmonic, First Brother The Seven Deadly Sins on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (London, Cologne, Essen) and a New Generation Artist Recital at Stoller Hall. At the Wigmore Hall, he also appears in A Home for All Seasons and, with The Mozartists, The Swinging Sixties.

Mercadante’s Il proscritto is his debut with Opera Rara.