Alessandro Fisher

Tenor Alessandro Fisher has won some of British music's top career development awards. By the early 2020s, he had already notched a long list of appearances on recordings. Fisher's mother was an opera singer and voice teacher, and he grew up surrounded by opera; the first album he owned was a recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, K. 620. He was never pushed into a musical career, however. Fisher was a choral scholar (a singer who receives scholarship support in return for performing at university functions such as chapel services) at Clare College, Cambridge University, where he studied Modern and Medieval Languages. He went on for further studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Fisher's first major professional position was as an Associate Artist with the Mozartists, a group dedicated to historically oriented performance of unusual Mozart works. He scored a breakthrough with a first prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in 2016. From 2018 to 2021, Fisher was a member of the BBC New Generation Artist Scheme, which brought performing and recording opportunities. In 2018, Fisher made his recording debut with the Mozartists and the Classical Opera Orchestra on a recording of Mozart's Grabmusik, K. 42, and Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50, on the Signum Classics label. He has made several more recordings with the Mozartists. Fisher quickly found opportunities with other companies and is equally at home in early music and traditional repertory. He appeared at England's Glyndebourne Festival in multiple roles in Francesco Cavalli's Hipermestra, as Bellecourt in Jacques Offenbach's Vert Vert at the Garsington Opera, and in the title role of Rameau's Dardanus with the English Touring Opera. His career has begun to extend beyond Britain, including an appearance as Lucano and the First Soldier in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival. Fisher is in demand as a recitalist and has appeared in the songs by Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with pianist Stephen Hough at the BBC Proms. In 2022, Fisher received the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. The following year, he made his solo debut on the Albion Classics label with a recording of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ian Venables.
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