British-Canadian baritone Alexander Dobson has been praised for his musicality and dramatic awareness in a range of repertoire on both opera and concert stages. Opera highlights include his riveting title role portrayal of Wozzeck and Don Giovanni both conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Hamilton, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette for l’Opéra de Montréal, Silvio in Opera Quebec’s Pagliacci, Marcello in La Boheme for Saskatoon Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria, De Retz in Bard Summerscape’s production of Les Huguenots and his Royal Opera Covent Garden debut in The Midnight Court.

A dedicated concert and recital artist, Alexander has appeared with the Orchestre Métropolitain for Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfayer; the National Arts Center Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand”; Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony; in recital at Toronto’s Aldeburgh Connection; at the Vancouver New Music Festival; and as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Montréal’s Theater of Early Music which he will tour with the group in the spring of 2012. He has sung Schubert’s Winterreise to great acclaim in Canada, England, and France. Alex spent this past summer as bass soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival under the direction of Paul Goodwin and will return next summer to sing arias in the B Minor Mass and Handel's Alexander's Feast.

An ardent singer since childhood, Alexander's solo début was at twelve years old, as a treble soloist in the Canadian premiere of Lloyd Webber's Requiem under conductor Elmer Iseler.

Last updated October 2011