Tenor

Alex McKissick

Fledermaus

Biography

American tenor Alex McKissick made his Irish National Opera debut in 2024 when he performed Narraboth in Strauss’s Salome. During the 2024-25 season, he joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover the roles in Jeanine Tesori Grounded (Mission Commander), Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar (Bullfighter), John Adam’s Antony and Cleopatra (Eros), and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (Master of Ceremonies), working with conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, John Adams, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, as well as stage directors Michael Mayer, Deborah Colker, and Elkhanah Pulitzer. In concert, he will join Orchestra of the Triangle for De Falla’s La vida breve with Niccoló Muti on the podium. In previous seasons, he has performed with Washington National Opera, San Diego Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, North Carolina Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, Georg Solti Accademia, Berkshire Opera Festival, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Charleston Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors Franz Welser-Möst, John Adams, Eun Sun Kim, Daniele Callegari, Yves Abel, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Steven Mercurio, Nicole Paiement, in addition to stage directors David Alden, Francesca Zambello, Michael Mayer, Tomer Zvulun, and Octavio Cardenas. Alex also toured with trumpeter Chris Botti to Texas, Arizona, Utah, and California performing Satori and Puccini. His recording of Bernstein's Songfest, released on Naxos, was considered for a Grammy Award nomination and his CD Una notte a Napoli, recorded live at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, is available at select locations. Alex graduated from the Juilliard School of Music and is an alumnus of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera.  

February 2025.