Alex Richardson’s recent engagements include performances in the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood singing the role of Vogelgesang in Act III of Wagner’s Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Maestro James Levine and the tenor solos in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Recent opera roles include the role of Fatty in Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Tanglewood, Alfred in Die Fledermaus at Opera Southwest and Will Tweedy in Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree at Amarillo Opera. He also recently made his European debut singing Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Festival Lyrique-en-mer in Belle-Ile, France. Other opera roles include Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, Camille in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème, Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring, and Flute in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2005 Mr. Richardson completed his second apprenticeship with Santa Fe Opera, singing the role of the Soldier Ruiz Alonzo in Osvaldo Golijov’s Grammy Award-winning opera Ainadamar in the acclaimed Peter Sellars production. He has also sung the role of the Bullfighter in Ainadamar with the Atlanta Symphony at the Ravinia and Ojai Music Festivals, in Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center, and most recently in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony.

Mr. Richardson has appeared as a concert soloist in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Trinity Church – Wall Street, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Boulder Bach Festival, as well as many other recitals and concerts across the country. Concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor masses, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Shostakovich’s Songs From Jewish Folk Poetry, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and Handel’s Messiah, among others. Alex Richardson is on the roster of singers at the Marilyn Horne Foundation, appearing on their "On Wings of Song" recital series in the 2005/2006 season. Also under the auspices of the Horne Foundation he has completed residencies and recitals for the Brownville Concert Series in Brownville, Nebraska and Huntsville Chamber Music Guild's Celebrity Series in Huntsville, Alabama.

Upcoming engagements for Mr. Richardson include the tenor solos in Handel's Messiah with the Jacksonville Symphony, the role of Rinuccio at Amarillo Opera and he will also give a solo recital at Trinity Church-Wall Street on their "Concerts at One" series. Mr. Richardson will also be featured in a television broadcast of Regina Resnik Presents singing the tenor solos in the Shostakovich Songs from Jewish Folk Poetry.