Alexander Köpeczi

The 2024/25 season sees Köpeczi make a series of important company debuts: at the Metropolitan opera as Colline La bohème; Dutch National Opera as Sparafucile in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Rigoletto; Semperoper Dresden again as Colline; and Atlanta Opera as Fafner Siegfried. Further highlights include Ramfis Aida at the Royal Ballet & Opera; the Bayerische Staatsoper as Il Re Aida; and a triple appearances at Tiroler Festspiele Erl as Sparafucile Rigoletto, Ferrando Il Trovatore and Dottore Grenvil La traviata.

Recent highlights include Alvise in a new production of La Gioconda at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; Sparafucile Rigoletto with Royal Ballet & Opera on tour to Japan; a hugely acclaimed debut as Ramfis in Damiano Michieletto’s new production of Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper, which was hailed by the press as a “Ramfis of pitch-black sonority with an erotic layer to the sound” (Der Merkur); company debut with Komische Oper Berlin as Sarastro Die Zauberflöte; Salzburg Easter Festival as Reinmar von Zweter Tannhäuser conducted by Andris Nelsons; Colline, Il Frate Don Carlo, Sacristan Tosca, Lodovico Otello and Leone Attila, all the Royal Ballet & Opera; Sarastro Die Zauberflöte at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Berlioz Festival at La Côte–Saint–André; the world premiere of Jenő Hubay’s Le luthier de Crémone; Il frate Don Carlo, Lodovico Otello, Il Re Aida, Jose Castro La fanciulla del West and Colline La bohème all at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest; the Levente Szörényi 75th anniversary concert and Kálmándy30 –Jubilee Gala, both in Budapest; Brander La damnation de Faust with the Transylvania State Philharmonic in Cluj-Napoca, Colline La bohème, Lodovico Otello and Zuniga Carmen at the Hungarian State Opera House in his native Cluj, Romania where he was a member of the ensemble.

Köpeczi began his musical training in Cluj, Romania as a pianist and accompanist. He then moved onto studying voice and made his professional stage      debut in 2014. A prize winner at the 57th Francisco Viñas Singing Competition in Barcelona, he was invited in the summer of 2021 to take part in the prestigious Young Artists Project at the Salzburg Festival. He made his international professional debut at the Royal Ballet & Opera in 2022 and was part of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble from 2022 to 2024 where his roles included Monk Don Carlo; Tom Un ballo in Maschera; Zweiter Geharnischter Die Zauberflöte; Moser i Masnadieri; Ramfis Aida; Zuniga Carmen; Orakel Idomeneo; and Reinmar von Zweter Tannhäuser.

He can also be heard as Jose Castro and Billy Jackrabbit on the PENTATONE recording of La fanciulla del West; and as Doctor Grenvil La Traviata on the same label.