Biography
BORN IN – England
VOCAL FACH – Baritone
MUSICAL EDUCATION – Leicester University
IMPORTANT ROLES – Georgio Germont (»La Traviata«), Alberich (»Siegfried«), Gunther (»Götterdämmerung«), Escamillo (»Carmen«), Ford (»Falstaff«), Jochanaan (»Salome«), Nick Shadow (»The Rake’s Progress«), Alfio (»Cavalleria Rusticana«), Tonio (»I Pagliacci«), Sharpless (»Madama Butterfly«), Scarpia (»Tosca«), Enrico (»Lucia di Lammermoor«), title roles in »Gianni Schicchi«, »Rigoletto« and »Don Giovanni«, Pizarro (»Fidelio«), Escamillo and Scarpia, Conte di Luna (»Il trovatore«), Jago in »Otello«, Achilles (Schoecks »Penthesilea«), Kurwenal (»Tristan und Isolde«), Wotan (»Das Rheingold«/»Die Walküre«), Tamare (Schreker‘s »Die Gezeichneten«).
ENGAGEMENTS – Sydney Opera House, RTE Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Oper Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oslo, Basel, Lyon, Lille
IMPORTANT DIRECTORS – Calixto Bieito, La Fura del Baus
AT OPER LEIPZIG – i.a. Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper in »Lulu«, Jack Rance in »La fanciulla del West«, Telramund in the shortened version of »Lohengrin«, Wanderer in »Siegfried«, Wotan in »Die Walküre« and Telramund in »Lohengrin«.