Alexander Teliga graduated from the Conservatory in Lvov and started his international career with Kammeroper Wien, where he has been in fixed engagement for several seasons. He has been in fixed engagement with State opera Prague in addition.

Alexander Teliga has since performed with many opera houses singing leading bass parts. Highlights include Banco in Macbeth (Leipzig), The Varangian in Sadko (Venice), Thibaut in The Maiden of Orleans (Wexford Festival), Zaccaria in Nabucco (St. Margarethen Opera Festival and Warsaw), Scribe in The Maynight (Bologna), Inquisitore in Don Carlos (Dublin), Boris Godunov (Madrid Philharmonics and Bologna), Surin in The Queen of Spades (Bologna, Dublin, and Milan), Kruszyna in Prodana nevesta (Bologna), Verdi’s Requiem (Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Jurowski, Mexico City Philharmonics, Moscow International House of Music, c. Dm. Jurowski), Ramfis in Aida (Warsaw), Tchaikovsky’s Cherevichki and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin (Milan), and Englishman in The Gambler (Staatsoper Berlin, conductor Daniel Barenboim, Milan).

He was heard as Il Re in Aida, Zaccaria in Nabucco, Dikoy in Káťa Kabanová, Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer (Warsaw), The General in The Gambler, Geronte de Ravoir in Manon Lescaut (Lyon), the bass part in Rachmaninoff’s Bells with The State Philharmonic Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Old Convict in Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Varlaam in Boris Godunov, Dikoy in Káťa Kabanová (Santiago de Chile), the bass solo in Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and Archbishop in Szymanowski’s Krol Roger (debut at Liceu Barcelona), Vodnik in Rusalka (Mexico City), Gremin in Eugene Onegin (Krakow, Poznan, Buenos Aires), Dodon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, Boris Timofeevich in Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Banco in Macbeth (Montevideo), Ivan Yakovlevitch in The Nose (Rome), Sobakin and Maluta in The Tsar’s Bride (Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg), Le Grand Inquisiteur in Don Carlos, Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer, and Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Theater Bonn).

Recent and upcoming engagements include Priest and Old Convict in Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk by Shostakovich and Le Directeur in Prokofiev’s The Gambler (Monte Carlo), Zaccaria in Nabucco, Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer, Skoluba in Straszny Dwor by Moniuszko (Warsaw), Padre Augustine in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery (Toulouse), and Il Marchese de Calatrava in La Forza del Destino (Grand Théâtre de Genève) among others.