Alek Shrader
Vocalists
— Tenor
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Manager: Angela Maria Blasi
Management Territory: Worldwide
"Alek Shrader, whose charming and rather imprudent Ferrando nicely blended a decent measure of boyish punch with finely-spun lyricism. " —Moore Parker, The Opera Critic, August 2011 Salzburg Festival
“Playing against type, Shrader was completely believable as the bespectacled nebbish Albert, with his Clark-Kent look, and awkward physical movements. Shrader possesses a youthful vibrant tenor and brought superb vocalism to his big moments, as with Albert’s pre-spree drunken soliloquy. In a difficult balancing act, Shrader managed to make Albert amusing, touching and loveable at the same time, while dexterously avoiding caricature." —Lawrence A. Johnson, Classical Review August 2010 Santa Fe Opera
“Vocally flawless….Alek Shrader (Egeo); one can imagine him in an entire palette of Rossini and Belcanto roles”. —Markus Thiel, Munich Merkur 2010 Bavarian State Opera
About
Mr. Shrader begins the 2012-13 season with two engagements at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He makes his house debut as Ferdinand in Ades’ ‘modern masterpiece’, "The Tempest", conducted by the composer himself and returns to sing Almaviva in the English version of "The Barber of Seville". He sings Don Ramiro in "La Cenerentola" at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and then returns to the U.S. for a North American recital tour, including Music for Youth in Connecticut, San Francisco Performances, Oberlin Conservatory and his Carnegie Weill Hall debut . . . . Baltimore audiences will have the opportunity to hear Mr. Shrader in a gala performance of bel canto arias and ensembles in the spring. Later in the season, he will be featured in an opera gala, sponsored by the San Antonio Opera. Mr. Shrader closes the season with the tenor solo in the Mozart "Requiem" at the Cincinnati May Festival with James Conlon conducting, followed by his role debut as Ernesto in Donizetti’s "Don Pasquale" at the Glyndebourne Festival.
