Alex Birkus, bass, was born in Belarus. His repertoire includes Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Zaccaria in Nabucco. Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Banco in Macbeth (Verdi), Pimen in Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), Gremin in Yevgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Sarastro in Die Zauberflote (Mozart), Wagner’s Fasolt and König Marke, Oroveso in Norma, Rodolfo in La sonnambula, Giorgio in I Puritani (Bellini), Colline in La boheme (Puccini) and others. He performs in the opera houses of Nuremberg, Salzburg, Ferrara, Modena, Trieste, Graz, Cremona and others.