Tenor Alessandro Fisher has won some of British music's top career development awards. By the early 2020s, he had already notched a long list of appearances on recordings.
Fisher's mother was an opera singer and voice teacher, and he grew up surrounded by opera; the first album he owned was a recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, K. 620. He was never pushed into a musical career, however. Fisher was a choral scholar (a singer who receives scholarship support in return for performing at university functions such as chapel services) at Clare College, Cambridge University, wher...