ALEX DESOCIO, BARITONE
Described by The New York Times as having a “buttery, booming baritone," Alex DeSocio (Wichita, KS), received his BM from Northwestern University and his MM at the University of Maryland.
Alex has worked in many US opera companies as a principal artist including, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Pensacola Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Memphis, Livermore Valley Opera, Castleton Festival, Opera Santa Barbara, and the Pacific Opera Project.
Awards include being a 2 Time-Metropolitan Council Audition Semi-Finalist, Winner/Laureate with the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
ABOUT
Described by The New York Times as possessing a “buttery, booming baritone,” Alex DeSocio has established himself as a compelling presence on opera stages across the United States.
This season, Mr. DeSocio will sing Baron Douphol in La traviata at the Cheffe d’orchestra Festival de Musique de Saint Barthélemy, cover the title role of Don Giovanni at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and workshopping the new chamber opera Eliza, commissioned by the Spoleto Festival. He recently made his company debut at Opera Philadelphia, appearing in Il viaggio a Reims under the direction of Damiano Michieletto and the baton of Corrado Rovaris. He also returned to Florida Grand Opera as Lt. Audebert in Silent Night. In addition, Mr. DeSocio received a Grammy Award nomination for his performance as the lead antagonist in An American Soldier.
In the 2024/25 season, Mr. DeSocio made his Florida Grand Opera debut as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He then joined Opera Fort Collins for Don Pasquale (Malatesta) and Heartbeat Opera for Faust (Valentín). He later made his Knoxville Symphony debut in Carmina Burana. In the summer of 2024, Mr. DeSocio performed with Central City Opera in Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King).
Highlights of the 2023/24 season include covering the role of Travis in the world premiere of Intelligence with Houston Grand Opera, and his PAC NYC debut as the villainous Sergeant Aaron Marcum in the New York premiere of An American Soldier; the subsequent studio recording received a 2025 International Opera Awards nomination for Best Recording (Complete Opera). He also performed Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Livermore Valley Opera and joined the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago as the baritone soloist in Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht. Additional summer performances included appearances at Central City Opera’s Theatre of Dreams Gala and Yellow Rose Ball Concert.
In the 2022/23 season, Mr. DeSocio portrayed Figaro in Shreveport Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Schaunard in La bohème with Pensacola Opera, and Marcello in La bohème with Fargo-Moorhead Opera. Other engagements include La bohème (Marcello) with Opera Birmingham, Pagliacci (Silvio) with Opera Memphis, L’elisir d’amore (Belcore) with Sarasota Opera, Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio) with Pensacola Opera, and Carmen (Morales) with Vero Beach Opera.
RECENT/UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
October 10th-November 1st
The Lyric Opera of Chicago 2026/27 Season kicks off with a thrilling fable of deceit and retribution. Under the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola, sharp humor, high drama, and an exquisite score intertwine in the story of a charismatic seducer whose unrepentant lustfulness brings about a most spectacular demise.
Singing with a voice that can “shake the heavens” (Opera Today), bass-baritone and Lyric veteran Christian Van Horn stars as one of opera’s most infamous anti-heroes, crowning a stellar cast.
Director Robert Falls’s instant-classic take on this morality tale for the ages offers an expansive and hard-hitting Don Giovanni sure to satisfy anyone with a wicked taste for drama.
December 1st-16th
Set in Charleston in 1782, ELIZA unfolds in the waning days of British occupation. In the
bustling Beef Market, the women who have long fed both redcoats and rebels gather at dawn to
barter in the shadows before the daily opening bell. Among them is Eliza Binda, a widowed
oyster woman determined to reclaim the home the British seized during the war. And Leah, a
shopkeeper and Jewish femme sole merchant, a trusted confidante whose own livelihood and
community standing have been threatened by the occupation. Both women navigate the
occupation alone—Eliza widowed by war; Leah suspended in an uncertainty worse than grief,
her husband unaccounted for since going off to serve in the war. And Jinny, a cunning huckster,
who in her unabashed flirtations with British soldiers learns two things: that the fleet may soon
evacuate Charleston, and that the deed proving Eliza’s home was hers remain in British hands.
January 8th -18th
The Saint-Barthélemy Music Festival is the oldest and largest cultural event on the island of Saint Barthélemy. We will celebrate its 43rd anniversary from January 8 to 18, 2027 !
The Festival brings together each year in January the best musicians from the largest classical music orchestras in the world (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, California, Germany, England, France, Japan, Israel, Brazil, etc.).
More than forty Musicians, Opera Singers and Conductors are invited to form a unique Symphony Orchestra in the Caribbean. For a week the public of Saint-Barthélemy has the chance to listen, see and interact with exceptional musicians who are in high demand throughout the world.
In addition to concerts, the festival also offers workshops for young local musicians, providing learning and development opportunities which allow young emerging talents to perform in front of an audience and receive advice from renowned experts.
The Saint-Barthélemy Music Festival today lives up to the excellence and prestige of our island.
Lucy Foxx
April 17th, 18th
Prepare for one of the most powerful choral works ever written as the Missoula Symphony and Chorale present Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Famous for its thunderous opening movement, O Fortuna, this dramatic masterpiece draws on medieval poetry celebrating the unpredictability of fate, the joys of spring, and the pleasures of life. Massive choruses, driving rhythms, and unforgettable melodies make Carmina Burana one of the most exhilarating works in the orchestral repertoire.
