Laureate of the Talents Adami Classique 2023, Alexandre Baldo won the Audience Prize at the 14th Cesti International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera (2023), the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Göttinger Handel Competition in Germany and both the Note 1 Music GmbH and Fiori Musicali Prizes at the International H. I. F. Biber Competition in Austria (2021).
Since then, he has performed with Le Concert Spirituel under the direction of Hervé Niquet, with whom he made his debut in 2022 at the Opéra de Reims, singing the roles of Le Mage and L’Espagnol in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Le Mariage forcé.
Further operatic appearances followed shortly including Antonio Sartorio’s Orfeo (Esculapio/Plutone) for both the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris and Théâtre Sénart under the baton of Philippe Jaroussky, the French version of La Cenerentola (Alidoro) in a Julien Lubek & Cécile Roussat staging and Die Zauberflöte (Sprecher) under Hervé Niquet, both at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. He also appeared as Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Jean-Marc Aymes and Concerto Soave at the Opéra de Marseille and as Abimélech in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila under Guillaume Tourniaire at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne. He furthermore took part in the world premiere in modern times of Lully’s Le Carnaval at both the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and the Teatro Comunale di Modena.
On the concert platform, Alexandre has sung La Resurrezione with Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie at Vienna’s Musikverein, the St Matthew Passion with Thibault Noally and Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Ecurie at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Die Schöpfung (Raphael/Adam) at the Opéra de Montpellier, and Messiah with the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
At the Internationales Brucknerfest in Linz, he performed Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Ádám Fischer leading the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as Bruckner’s Missa solemnis and Te Deum with the OÖ Jugendsinfonieorchester conducted by Markus Poschner.
Together with his Baroque ensemble Mozaïque, he gave a recital at the Brucknerhaus Linz and performed Emilia, a semi-scenic pasticcio based on music by Handel, at the Händelfestspiele in Halle.
Alexander Baldo’s first solo album “Caldara – Arias for Bass”, issued on the Pan Classics label, received the highest distinctions from the leading French classical music magazines Diapason (“5 Diapasons”) and Classica (“5 Étoiles”), and was nominated for the 2024 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).
He has also recorded the world premiere of the Oratorium de Passione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi by Franz Joseph Aumann with Ars Antiqua Austria and its director Gunar Letzbor (Pan Classics), as well as Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel (Alpha Classics).
Highlights of the 2026/2027 season include Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Verdi’s Don Carlos (Un Moine) under Michele Spotti at the Opéra de Marseille, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Victorien Vanoosten at the Opéra de Toulon, and Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Polifemo) with Le Banquet Céleste at the Opéra de Rennes.
Alexandre will also return to Lully’s Le Carnaval under Federico Maria Sardelli at the Theater an der Wien and embark on a concert tour in support of his new solo album, “Unusual Suspects” (Arcana), including performances at the Salle Cortot in Paris and the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing.
