Alberto Miguélez Rouco studied singing at the Musik Akademie Basel under the mezzosoprano Rosa Domínguez. He also studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Francesco Corti, Giorgio Paronuzzi and Jesper Christensen. He is a laureate of the Jardin des Voix Academy’s 10th edition (2021) and was a member of Philippe Jaroussky’s voice Academy for the 2020-2021 season. In 2022 he won Ópera Actual’s award for most promising young artist, presented at Teatro Real.

In opera, he most recently made his debut at Oper Köln in the role of Ottone in Ted Huffman’s production of L’incoronazione di Poppea under the direction of George Petrou, which he also performed for the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia under Leonardo García Alarcón.

This season Alberto sings Nireno in Calixto Bieito’s Giulio Cesare for his debut at the Liceu, Barcelona under the direction of William Christie. He has previously sung Telemann’s Orpheus (Ascalax) with René Jacobs, Händel’s Partenope (Armindo) conducted by William Christie (Paris Philharmonie, Valencia, La Coruña, Bucharest, Budapest, Luzern); Ottone (Adelberto) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen; Legrenzi’s La divisione del mondo (La Discordia) at Strasbourg, Nancy and Versailles conducted by Christophe Rousset; Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Umana fragilità and Pisandro) at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress and Spirit), conducted by Paul Agnew.

In 2018 he founded his own ensemble Los Elementos which he directs from the harpsichord, and in September 2019 he recorded José de Nebra’s baroque zarzuela Vendado es Amor, no es ciego, for the label Glossa. In 2021 he released their second album of Nebra’s Donde ay violencia, no ay culpa and their next release will be José de Nebra’s Venus y Adonis. In 2023 he conducted Nebra’s Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa with Los Elementos at the Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid) staged by Rafa Villalobos. This season Alberto, together with his group Los Elementos he will be Resident Artist at the National Centre for Mucical Difusión (CNDM) in Madrid where he will present five different programmes both singing and conducting