Alberto Miguélez Rouco, countertenor and musical director of the ensemble Los Elementos, completed his higher studies in singing at the Musik Akademie Basel (Switzerland) with mezzo-soprano Rosa Domínguez. He also studied harpsichord and basso continuo at the same institution with Francesco Corti, Giorgio Paronuzzi and Jesper Christensen.
He regularly attends masterclasses with renowned artists such as Mariella Devia, Margreet Honig, Sara Mingardo, Philippe Jaroussky, Alessandro de Marchi, Christine Schäfer and Maria Cristina Kiehr, among others, and has worked under conductors including René Jacobs, William Christie, Georges Petrou, Christophe Rousset, Paul Agnew, Gabriel Garrido and Josep Pons. As a soloist he has collaborated with orchestras such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Les Arts Florissants, the Netherlands Bach Society, Les Talens Lyriques, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Elyma and the Trondheim Baroque Orchestra.
Winner of the 10th Jardin des Voix, he undertook a world tour (2021–2023) with Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie, singing the role of Armindo in Handel’s opera Partenope.
On stage he has appeared in operas such as Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Liceu), Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea(Cologne, Valencia), Telemann’s Orpheus with René Jacobs (Basel), Handel’s Partenope with William Christie (Paris, Barcelona, Lucerne, Valencia…), Handel’s Ottone (Innsbruck Festival of Early Music), Legrenzi’s La divisione del mondo (Strasbourg, Versailles, Nancy, Cologne), Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Vicenza), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Dido and Sorceress), Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Cesti’s L’Orontea, working with stage directors such as Jetske Mijnssen, Anna Magdalena Fitzi, Pablo Maritano, Els Comediants (Joan Font) and Deda Cristina Colonna.
As an oratorio soloist he has sung Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (René Jacobs), Bach’s St John Passion (René Jacobs), Handel’s Israel in Egypt (René Jacobs), Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Hasse’s Miserere, Pasquini’s Il martirio di San Vito, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Michael Haydn’s Requiem in C minor, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
With his ensemble Los Elementos he has embarked on a recording project of the complete stage works of the Spanish composer José de Nebra, recording Vendado es Amor, no es ciego in 2019, Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa in 2021 and Venus y Adonis in 2023. He also released his first solo album, Cantadas, in 2020. In 2023 he conducted the zarzuela Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, achieving great critical and public success.
During the 2024–25 season he was artist-in-residence at Spain’s CNDM, presenting several projects including the revival of Francisco Corselli’s opera El robo de las sabinas and Handel’s cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.
