What is "alessandro"

Alessandro is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Alexander. Notable people with the name include:

• Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), Italian portrait painter
• Alessandro Botticelli (1445-1510), Italian painter
• Alessandro Bovo (born 1969), Italian water polo player
• Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795), alias of occultist and adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo
• Alessandro Calcaterra (born 1975), Italian water polo player
• Alessandro Calvi (born 1983), Italian swimmer
• Alessandro Cortini (born 1976), Italian musician
• Alessandro Criscuolo (born 1937), Italian judge
• Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974), Italian footballer
• Alessandro Evangelisti (born 1981), Italian footballer
• Alessandro Grandi (1586–1630), Italian composer
• Alessandro Juliani (born 1978), Canadian actor
• Alessandro Lindblad (Alesso) (born 1991), Swedish musician, DJ and producer
• Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist
• Alessandro Martini (1812–1905), Italian businessman and founder of Martini & Rossi distillery
• Alessandro Matri (born 1984), Italian footballer
• Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510–1537), ruler of Florence from 1530 to 1537
• Alessandro Mori Nunes (born 1979), Brazilian footballer
• Alessandro Nesta (born 1976), Italian footballer
• Alessandro D'Ottavio (born 1927), Italian boxer
• Alessandro Pagani (born 1937), Italian Roman Catholic bishop
• Alessandro Petacchi (born 1974), Italian professional road cyclist
• Alessandro Pezzatini (born 1957), Italian race walker
• Alessandro Safina (born 1963), Italian tenor
• Alessandro dos Santos (born 1977), Brazilian and naturalised Japanese footballer
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725), Italian composer
• Alessandro Viana da Silva (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
• Alessandro Stratta (born 1964), celebrity chef
• Alessandro Sturba (born 1972), Italian footballer
• Alessandro Tiarini (1577–1668), Italian painter
• Alessandro Trentacinque (-1599), Italian writer and jurist
• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist
• Alex Zanardi (born 1966), Italian racing driver
• Danilo Alessandro (born 1988), Italian footballer
• Jonatan Alessandro (born 1987), Argentine footballer
• Victor Alessandro (1915–1976), American orchestra conductor

Alessandro ( HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas. The original cast also included Francesco Bernardi who was known as Senesino.

Handel had originally planned Alessandro to be his first contribution to the 1725—1726 season of the Royal Academy. However, Bordoni did not arrive in London in time to stage Alessandro, and Handel substituted his own Scipione in March and April 1726 until her arrival. The opera received its first performance on 5 May 1726 at the King's Theatre, London, and was received "with great applause".

The story recounts Alexander the Great's journey to India and depicts him less in a heroic vein than as vainglorious as well as indecisive in matters of the heart. The work's charm and lightness of touch make it at times almost a comic work.

Alessandro is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname.

Alessandro may also refer to:

• Alessandro, California, an unincorporated community
• Alessandro (opera), an opera composed by Handel in 1726