Born in Zaragoza (Spain), Aladrén is since 2019 a soloist member at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg where he performs regularly many repertoire roles such as Pinkerton, Cavaradossi, Don Carlo, Ismaele, Turiddu, Calaf, Don Jose, Alfredo, Macduff, Rodolfo, among others.
The new Season 2024/25 opens for Aladren at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein where he will perform eleven shows in the new production of Verdi`s Nabucco in Düsseldorf. In the meantime he will be part of the Open Air Haniel Classic Gala in Duisburg in September 24. Aladren will return to the Teatro Real in Madrid in January and February 2025 to perform the tenor role Paco in the Spanish opera “La vida breve” from Manuel de Falla. Some other concerts to follow and to be soon announced, and ending the season in the role of Don Jose within several performances of Bizet`s Carmen at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Aladren completed and exciting 2023/24 season with engagements at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg including several performances of Madama Butterfly in the role of Lieutenant Pinkerton, eight performances of Turandot in the role of Calaf, and several performances as Turiddu in Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria Rusticana. He also had his debut in the role of OTELLO in Verdi’s homonymous opera, which he performed up to eleven times between May and June 2024 at the Staatstheater Kassel. He was also a guest with the Belgrader Philharmoniker and at Theater Bonn where he performed in both venues Madama Butterfly. In addition to this, he performed in several concerts, such as the NRW Minister-President Konzert which was held open air in Aachen in August 2023 and broadcasted by the NRW television channel in Germany, or his reunion with the Philharmonie Reutlingen with a Zarzuela and Opera concert in July 2023.
Engagements along the 2022/23 season included his debut in the role of Macduff in the opera Macbeth, his return to the role of Maurizo in the opera Adriana Lecouvreur and the oft-performed role of Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Germany. Additionally he was back at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar with Radames (Aida) and made his debut at the Oper Leipzig singing Alfredo (Traviata) and Lt. Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly).
The 2021/22 season brought his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid, in the role of Ismaele in Nabucco, as well as his debut at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana. Aladrén also performed Radamés in the new production of Aida at the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar as well as Don José (Carmen), Turiddu (Cavalleria) and Alfredo (Traviata) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Rodolfo (Boheme) at the Aalto Theater Essen and Lt. Pinkerton (Butterfly)at the Opera of Freiburg.
Despite the dramatic Covid conditions along Season 2020/21, Aladrén had his debut as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana at Opera Bergen (Norway). He also made his debut at the Cervantes Theater in Málaga together with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga singing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in December 2020.
Aladrén’s Season 2019/20 included his debut as Calaf at Festival Pucciniano de Torre del Lago (Italy) and the Latvian National Opera in Riga, his return to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – Düsseldorf in the roles of Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Alfredo in Traviata and Don Carlo. Outstanding also his debut with the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo with the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. Long awaited was also his debut as Rodolfo in the new production of La Boheme at the Opera Duisburg (Germany). Concluded the season with several concerts with the Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen in Tonhalle Zurich, among other venues.
Engagements along season 2018/19 included his return to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein –Düsseldorf in the roles of Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Don Carlo. He also performed Lt. Pinkerton at the Latvian National Opera in Riga and the Teatro Principal of Palma de Mallorca (Spain). Aladrén also made his debut as the soloist tenor in Verdi’s Requiem at the Opera Theater of Halle and later on at the Opera House in Bonn, both in Germany. Remarkable was also his debut in the new production of Verdi’s opera Don Carlo at the St. Gallen Opera House in Switzerland.
Season 2017/18 included his debut at the Opernhaus Düsseldorf in the roles of Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Cavaradossi in Tosca, several performances of Tosca at Opera Theater Halle and Staatstheater Braunschweig, his debut in the role of Mauricio in Adriana Lecouvreur in Halle, Don Carlo in the 5 Acts Verdi’s homonimous opera in Braunschweig, his debut in Norway with Tosca at Opera Bergen, several concerts with the South Denmark Philharmonie, his debut in concert at the Gasteig Philharmonie Hall in Munich, an opera gala at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, and his already traditional benefit tv-broadcasted concerts for UNICEF Germany.
Engagements along season 2016/17 included his return at the opened-air Neue Eutiner Festspiele as Don Jose in Bizet’s opera Carmen, his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the role of Lt. Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, four different productions of Tosca at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein-Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Bühnen Halle, Staatstheater Braunschweig, andStaatstheater Cottbus, , his debut at the Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow with Tosca, theprincipal tenor, Jorge, in the spanish opera Marina at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Radames in Aida with the Luglio Musicale Trapanese in Sicily, as well asseveralorchestra concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach (USA), and with the Spanish Radio & Television Orchestra and Chorus in Madrid.
Other outstanding engagements along the past season 2015/16 took him to his debut in the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, his debut at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in the role of Werther, h<is debut in the role of Radames in Verdi’s opera Aida at the Neue Eutiner Festspiele in Germany as well as some orchestra concerts , at the Adrianne Arsht Center in Miami, and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach Opera (USA).
Among his appearances in 2014/15, are his debut with the prestigious ABAO at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao first in the role of Gustavo in the zarzuela Los Gavilanes, and later in the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, debut also with the Opera de Oviedo and the Teatro Jovellanos (Gijón; Spain) in both occasions one more in the role of Lt. Pinkerton, his return to the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid with the zarzuela Catalina, his debut in the role of Lenski in Eugene Onegin at the Gran Teatre de Palma de Mallorca, his debut at the Teatros del Canal (Madrid) with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde”, a concert with the WDR Orchester (German Radio & TV Orchestra) in Cologne, as well his debut in concert with the Chicago Philharmonic at the Symphony Center in Chicago (USA) and the Ottawa Symphony at the National Arts Center in Ottawa (Canada), among others
Season 2013/14 included his debut in the role of Andrea Chénier at the National Theater Szeged (Hungary). Other engagements also included Cavaradossi in Tosca at Theater Heidelberg, Alfredo in Traviata in Stadttheater Bremerhaven and several orchestra concerts in USA, including the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, just to mention two of them. This also was the season of his debut in Canada in concert with the Calgary Philharmonic at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary and with the Strauss Symphony of Canada at the Winspear Center in Edmonton.
Along season 2011/12 he performed Alfredo in “La Traviata” in Theater Nordhausen and Lt. Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly”in Mecklenburgisches Staattheater Schwerin, both in Germany. He was called back at the Schwerin Schlossfestspiele 2012 for the role of Canio in Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” in collaboration with the internationally well-known RONCALLI Circus.
Outstanding were also his „last minute jump-ins“ along the season as Pinkerton with Opera Zuid (Netherlands), Cavaradossi at Stadttheater Bremen, and D. José at Potsdam-Berlin.
Last engagements along 2010/11 have taken him to his performances as “Luigi” in Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” in Bayreuth Stadthalle, “Alvaro” in Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” in the Schwerin Schlossfestspiele, “Don Jose” in Bizet’s “Carmen” in the Festival Sommer 2010 Musik und Theater Saar, “Pinkerton” in Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” in the Stadtteather Aachen and Cavaradossi in Puccini’s “Tosca” in the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, all of them in Germany.
He also performed along the season some concerts in the “Queen Elizabethsaal” in Antwerpen with the “Philharmonie Südwestfallen (Peter Falk), in the “Kurhaus Wiesbaden” with the “Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen (Ola Rudner)” in the “Stadthalle Heidelberg” with the “Philharmonie Südwestfallen (Volker Christ)”, with the “Orchestra Musica Viva (Nicolas Hrudnik)“ in the Grosse Saal der Glocke in Bremen and with the “Symphony of the Americas (J. Brooks-Bruzzese)“ in Miami (USA).
He started season 2008/09 performing “La Fanciulla del West” in Saint Bart’s Festival in the French West Caribbian Islands, the Soloist Tenor in the magnificent Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” with the Bellas Artes Theater Symphony Orchestra in Mexico D.F. and Beethoven’s Mass in C Mayor and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra in USA. December 2008 took him to his debut at Miami’s Adrianne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts as soloist in a Zarzuela Orchestra Concert under the auspices of the Florida Concert Association as well as the soloist tenor and designer in the show “TUTTO PUCCINI” at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach (FL) last March 2009. June 2009 took him to the Miami Dade County Auditorium for an Anthology of Cuban Zarzuela and to the Auditorium of Zaragoza (Spain) to perform Alfredo in La Traviata and an opera concert series tour in January / February 2010 with the prestigious Symphony of the Americas
Last July 2007, he made his debut at the Miami Dade-County Auditorium where he performed “Count Danilo” together with soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in the production of F. Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” and where he returned last April 2008 to perform the principal tenor (Rene) in Lehár’s “The Count of Luxemburg”.
From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Aladrén was a Resident Artist with the Palm Beach Opera (USA) where he performed more than ten principal roles on the main stage in Aida, Tosca, Magic Flute, Pagliacci, Thaïs, Werther, Butterfly, etc.
Mr. Aladrén was also a Young Artist with Utah Festival Opera 2005 (USA), where he performed several soloist roles at the season. In 2004 he performed Alfred in “Die Fledermaus” for Bayview Summer Festival (Michigan, USA) where he also was awarded First Prize in the Adrian Boyer Vocal Competition.
In 2005 Mr. Aladrén was first cast in the role of Rodolpho in the World College Premiere of William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge at Bloomington School of Music (Indiana University) with the composer in attendance.
In the realm of oratorio, Mr. Aladrén sang the tenor solos in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in October 2004 in the Auditorium of Zaragoza (Spain) in its 25th Anniversary Commemoration. Later that year he performed the tenor solo in Ariel Ramirez’s Creole Massat Freemason Hall (Indianapolis; USA).
Mr. Aladrén began studying voice at the Music Conservatory of Zaragoza (Spain). Concurrently, he pursued a degree in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Zaragoza. Later on, Mr. Aladrén graduated at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid (Spain), and also pursuing a Performance Diploma in Voice from the School of Music in Bloomington (Indiana University; USA).