Maxime Alvarez de Toledo

Baritone

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Maxime Alvarez de Toledo is an actor and singer who recently appeared on TV in The Sopranos (Soprano Home Movies, Episode 78), Guiding light (Jimmy) and All My Children (Henri). Since making his American film debut in One Last Thing, starring Ethan Hawke and Cynthia Nixon, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival 2006, he was seen in Foulard (Teacher, Cannes Film Festival 2007), The Women (The Man), The Last Beat (Marcos), The Dead (Hank) and Ten Easy Steps of Being Dead inside (Zach).

On stage, Maxime was recently heard in Showboat (Carnegie Hall), Camelot (Live from Lincoln Center on PBS, with the New York Philarmonic) and the New York production of Yank (Mitch, opposite Bobby Steggert). Other New York credits include the off-Broadway productions of Oh Lady Lady! (Willoughby), and Mademoiselle Modiste (Rene), A Life in the Theater, The Rhythm of Life: a Cy Coleman Celebration, and Soloist in a gala concert with Marin Mazzie under the direction of Paul Gemignani.

Regionally, Maxime appeared in the acclaimed version of Camelot at the Schubert Theater in Boston, playing Lancelot with the North Shore Music Theatre, a role he reprised last year with the Arts Center of Costal Carolina. Other regional credits include The Sound of Music (Captain Von Trapp), Gigi (Gaston Lachaille), Hair (Tribe) and Titanic (Charles Lightoller).

Trained as a classical singer, Maxime performed many operatic roles throughout the world including both Giovanni and Leporello in Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Cosi fan Tutte), Colline (La Bohême), Publio (La Clemenza di Tito), Zuniga (Carmen), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Dottore (La Traviata). Concert works include Opera Scenes Concerts around Japan, Haydn’s Seven Last Words in Sicily and Mozart’s Requiem.

Also active in contemporary music, Maxime can be heard in the world premiere recordings of Pasatieri’s The Seagull (Sorin) by Chekov, Ward’s Roman Fever (Eduardo) and Eyerly’s The House of the Seven Gables (Lord Mayor). All three recordings have been released on Albany Records.

A native of Paris with Franco-Spanish origins, Maxime is fluent in English, French and Italian and also speaks Spanish, German and basic Chinese. He currently lives in New York City.

10/01/08