Winner of the 2016 Premio Abbiati prize, Alaimo performs regularly in prestigious theatres and festival around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, Salzburg Festival, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Paris Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. The great success of his interpretation of the title role in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell has seen acclaimed performances in opera houses worldwide.
Recent engagements include: La Cenerentola, Il Turco in Italia and a Rossini Gala with Cecilia Bartoli directed by Gianluca Capuano; Simon Boccanegra (title role) in Antwerp; Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo; La forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera; La bohème in Bologna; Il trovatore in Monte Carlo; Falstaff in Budapest; La cena delle beffe, Le comte Ory and Il pirata at La Scala; and Messa di Gloria by Puccini in Madrid. He has collaborated with conductors including Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Michele Mariotti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Evelino Pidò and Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Future engagements include Falstaff in Venice and Tokyo; La forza del destino in Paris; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Monte Carlo; L’Italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in Zürich; Nabucco and Roberto Devereux in Geneva; Simon Boccanegra in Florence; I due Foscari in Chicago; La Cenerentola and Adriana Lecouvreur in Toulouse and Guillaume Tell in Liège.