Alasdair Kent

Alasdair Kent is a British-Australian operatic tenor, principally known for his interpretations of Rossini and Mozart.
Early life and education.
Alasdair Kent was born in Perth, Western Australia. He studied music and performance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the University of Western Australia with mezzo-soprano Megan Sutton, as well as English literature, and Italian, French and German languages. He sang with the West Australian Opera Chorus for several seasons in various repertoire, and also took part in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program. In 2017, he received an Artist Diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied with Bill Schuman and sang performances of Lindoro ("L'italiana in Algeri"), Ferrando ("Così fan tutte"), Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") and Rinuccio ("Gianni Schicchi"). He was an Emerging Artist with Opera Philadelphia, and a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, where he performed as Ritornello in Florian Leopold Gassmann's "L'opera seria", and Giocondo in Rossini's "La pietra del paragone". He also took part in the Martina Arroyo Foundation's Prelude to Performance and the Merola Opera Program.
Career.
Kent made his professional debut in Australia at the age of 25, as Don Ramiro in "La Cenerentola" with Opera Queensland in 2013. While at AVA, he made his US concert debut with The Dallas Opera in 2015, and his US operatic debut in 2016 with Opera Philadelphia in "Cold Mountain", an operatic adaptation of Charles Frazier's novel composed by Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon. His European debut followed in 2017, as Cavaliere Belfiore in "Il viaggio a Reims" for the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, marking the beginning of his international career. Since then, he has sung at several important theatres, including the Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest continuously active opera theatre in the world, in performances of Rossini's "Mosè in Egitto" celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the opera's premiere at the San Carlo.
A tenore di grazia frequently associated with bel canto, his principal repertoire includes roles of Rossini, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, Bizet, and Verdi, though he has also performed works by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Of these composers, he has sung most frequently:
Other notable operatic performances include Paolino in Cimarosa's "Il matrimonio segreto", with the Festival della Valle d'Itria and the Teatro Regio di Torino, Tamino in "Die Zauberflöte" for the Royal Opera House Muscat, Argirio in Rossini's "Tancredi" with the Teatro Petruzzelli, and his debut as Arturo in "I puritani" with Ópera de Oviedo in 2020. In concert and recital, the tenor's performances include various repertoire, ranging from Rossini's virtuoso "Messa di Gloria" to Lili Boulanger's intimate song cycle "Clairières dans le ciel".