Sergio Alapont
Winner of II Competition for Conductors City of Granada Orchestra, Sergio Alapont is one of the leading conductors of his generation, Muisc Director of Orizzonti Festival in Italy, Principal Conductor of Orquesta Manuel de Falla and Artistic Director of Opera Benicàssim.
Alapont has also worked extensively as a guest conductor at such houses as Orchestra of the Spanish Radio Television (ORTVE), Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta de Valencia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Orquestra Simfònica de Balears, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquestra de Cambra de Granollers, Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra Clássica de Espinho, Orchestra do Algarve, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Silesian Philarmonich, Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Kiev Orchestra, Orchestra of the Macedonian National Opera, Poznan Opera Orchestra, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach Collegium-Stuttgart, Monterrey Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Città di Ferrara, Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Scottish Opera, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of the Wexford Opera Festival, Orchestra of Den Norske Opera in Oslo or Orchestre National dÎle de France in Paris.
Recent Opera highlights include Attila at the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania, Don Bucefalo at the Wexford Opera Festival, Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Wexford Opera Festival, Don Pasquale at Las Palmas Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Opera Gala with soprano Ainhoa Arteta, Poliuto at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos of Lisbon, Gianni Schicchi and Pierrot Lunaire at the Orizzonti Festival, Don Giovanni In Opera Tenerife, La Cenerentola in Treviso and Ferrara, Una cosa rara at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia and at the Teatro Calderón of Valladolid, Le nozze di Figaro in Catania, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Norma, Roméo et Juliette and Aida in Sassari, Tosca in Skopje, Don Pasquale at the Teatro Comunale di Treviso, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Festival di Pollença and Festival of Santanyí, La Traviata in Poznan (Poland), Rigoletto at the Teatro Principal de Alicante, Madama Butterfly in Granada or L’Elisir d’Amore in Opera Benicàssim. He assisted Marco Armiliato in severals productions at the Metropolitan, as Madame Butterfly, La bohème or Sly. And he was assistant conductor also at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival.
He has conducted in festivals as Shanghai Opera Week, Quincena Musical Donostiarra of San Sebastian, Euro Arts Leipzig, Varna Summer Festival, Orizzonti Festival, Segovia International Festival, Opera Benicàssim, Ravello Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Dobbiaco Mahler Festival, or Carinthischer Sommer Festival. He has collaborated with singers as Celso Albelo, Ainhoa Arteta, Dimitra Theodossiou, Isabel Rey, Fabio Armiliato, Lorenzo Regazzo, Bruno Praticò, Yolanda Auyanet, Ofelia Sala, Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Carlos Chausson, Jorge de León, Tomas Mohr, Plácido Domingo, Teresa Berganza, María José Montiel, Juan Francisco Gatell, Erika Miklosa or Juan Pons, and with soloists as Nemanja Radulovic, Pavel Berman, Boris Berman, Pablo Sainz Villegas, Sunao Goko, Anna Tifu, Detlef Roth, Paula Murrihy or Measha Bruggergosman. He has recorded for the discographic labels EGT and UNIVERSAL. He also has recorded for Spanish National Radio and Television, RAI and RTÉ Ireland.
In September 2008 he debuted at the Großer Saal of the Vienna Musikverein.
Future engagements for Mr. Alapont include a collaboration with La Fura del Baus, Idomeneo at the Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg, and at the Palau de Les Arts of Valencia, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, Tosca in Bari, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, a symphonic concert with the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, Orquesta de Valencia, La Traviata at the Festival Orizzonti 2016, or Otello at the Teatro Calderón of Valladolid in 2016, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and Andrea Chenier in Sassari or Adriana Lecouvreur in Las Palmas or Le nozze di Figaro in Haiffa (Israel).
He has studied orchestral conducting in New York with Maestro Marco Armiliato, and in Pescara with Maestro Donato Renzetti, finishing his studies with qualification “Cum Laude”.
Alapont was studing in depth the operatic repertoire with Maestro Marco Armiliato and he also pursued conducting studies with Jorma Panula (Royal College of Music of Stockholm), Helmuth Rilling (Bachakademie of Stuttgart), Masaaki Suzuki (Bach Collegium of Japan) and Semyon Bychkov.