Alex Mansoori, Tenor

Biography

Tenor Alex Mansoori has been called “Outstanding” and “Hilarious” by critics. His performances have been hailed as “solid and convincing” and “smartly characterized” (New York Times).

In 2011-2012 season, Mr. Mansoori will appear in a Messiah in Orland Park and will return to Merkin Hall with the New York Festival of Song in “A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking up & Breaking Up”. He will also return to the Ravinia Festival as Monostatos in a concert production of Die Zauberflöte with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon, and make his Chicago Opera Theater debut in September in the same opera.

Last season, Mr. Mansoori returned to Seattle Opera as Juan in Massanet's Don Quichotte, appeared at Juilliard in Les mamelles de Tirésias and sang in a workshop production of the new opera Senna, by Michael Torke, based on the life of F-1 formula racer Ayrton Senna. He also appeared in concert with Steven Blier and in an evening dedicated to the music of composer Martin Hennessy.

From 2008-2010, he was a Young Artist with the Seattle Opera, where he sang Tanzmeister/Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos), Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), Flute (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), and Mime in Siegfried and the Ring of Fire, a part of their Opera in School program. With the Aspen Music Festival, he sang Remendado in Carmen, Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen, and Lenia in the North American premiere of Cavalli’s Eliogabalo. He sang Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) as an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera and Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) as a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. With Glimmerglass Opera, he sang Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro) as a member of the Young American Artist Program. While at Juilliard, he sang Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) and the Stage Manager in the New York premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town/

His concert work includes Haydn’s The Creation with the Huntington Choral Society, Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit with the St. James Cathedral Chamber Orchestra and Mozart’s Requiem with the Aspen Music Festival. He has appeared with the New York Festival of Song on several occasions, most recently for Bernstein and Bolcom: A Celebration. He has also appeared with NYFOS for tributes to Harold Prince, Cole Porter, and Johnny Mercer.

Mr. Mansoori has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and New York’s famed Rainbow Room. He sang an evening of French Holy Music with the Juilliard Choral Union and appeared in Candide in Concert with The New York Philharmonic that was also broadcast on PBS.

A native of Seattle, Washington, he received his B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School, where he was awarded the William Schuman Prize and was a winner of the Juilliard Vocal Honors Recital, singing a collection of spirituals by Harry T. Burleigh and Moses Hogan. He received the Donald S. Graham Memorial Award from the Santa Fe Opera, and was a finalist in the 2008 Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers at the Houston Grand Opera.