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Piran Legg Baritone C.V. 2018 Summer Piran Legg Bass - Baritone www.piranlegg.com/[email protected] Height: 6’ 3 Guildhall School of Music & Drama Masters, Opera Course, Artist Diploma (2014-16) Teacher: Katherine Paterson Operatic Experience Winter 2018 Role in New Opera, Dickens A Christmas Tree Barbican May 2019 Action, Bernstein West Side Story Bath Festival Summer 2018 Colas and Buff, Mozart Der Schauspiel Direktor/Bastien und Bastienne Pop Up Opera Summer 2018 Ferrando, Verdi Il Trovatore Winslow Hall Opera Spring 2018 Chorus, Wagner The Flying Dutchman Bergen Nasjonale Opera Oct 2017 Vassal, Ein Mann, Wagner Götterdämmerung The Master Singers Summer 2017 Samuel, Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera Winslow Hall Opera Feb 2017 Cheong Opposites, World Premiere LSO St. Luke’s Oct 2016 Semi Chorus, Bellini I Capuleti e I Montecchi Bergen Nasjonale Opera July 2016 Giorgio Germont, Verdi La Traviata Clonter Opera Feb 2016 Satie, Garner Seven Velvet Suits workshOPERA, BasicSpace Festival Oct 2015 Danieli, Wagner Das Liebesverbot Cadogan Hall, Chelsea Opera Group July 2015 Crow, Salorian Boys of Paradise workshOPERA, Tête a Tête Festival July 2015 Guide, Polish Father, Boy on Boat, Britten Death in Venice Garsington Opera Jun – Aug 2015 Ulysses (young Artist), Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses Iford Arts Jun 2014 Martin the Cooper, Arne The Cooper Guildhall Opera School April 2014 Horloge and Chat, Ravel L’enfant et les sortiléges Barbican, National Children’s Orchestra March 2014 Gepetto, Dove The Adventures of Pinnochio Guildhall Opera School Dec 2013 Schaunard, Puccini La Boheme Cadogan Hall, Sinfonia d’Amici Jul-Oct 2013 Falke, Strauss Die Fledermaus Clonter Opera Jun 2013 Owen, Britten Owen Wingrave Guildhall Opera School March 2013 Antonio, Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Guildhall Opera School Nov 2012 Bandit, Massenet Don Quichotte Queen Elizabeth Hall, Chelsea Opera Group Oct-Nov 2011 Vieillard, Thomas La cour de Celimene, Rioter 1, Statkowski Maria, Guccio, Puccini Gianni Schicchi Wexford Festival Opera Nov 2010 King Erysichthon, Rushton Cicadas London Symphony Orchestra Selected Concert and Recital Appearances Nov 2018 Bach Christmas Oratorio Ashford Choral Society June 2018 Solo Recital Wenlock Festival April 2018 Handel Alexander’s Feast Cranbrook Choral Society Nov 2017 Handel Dettingen Te Deum and Messiah, Gravesham Choral Society Nov 2017 Mozart Reqiuem Sussex Choral June 2017 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius, Shaldon Festival April 2017 Bach St. Matthew Passion Wombourne and District Choral Society May 2016 Walton Belshazzar’s Feast Canterbury Cathedral Mar 2016 Beethoven Mass in C University of Kent Symphony Orchestra June 2015 CPE Bach Magnificat Oxford Bach Choir Mar 2015 Handel Messiah Hesdins and Amiens Cathedral, Concert Tour Jan 2015 Faure Requiem Brandenburg Sinfonia, St. Martin in the Fields Nov 2014 Handel Messiah and Purcell Sacred Songs Montreuil sur Mer, Concert Tour July 2014 Iford Young Artist Opera Gala Iford Arts, Christian Curnyn Nov 2013 Clonter Opera Gala Clonter Opera May 2013 Song Recital Chipping Camden Music Festival June 2012 Dvorak Te Deum Orange County SO, Birmingham Town Hall and Westminster Hall Jan 2011 Russian Song Recital Barbican Oct 2010 Schumann Song Recital Oxford Lieder Festival Awards and Prizes International Opera Awards Young Artist Bursary Winner Canterbury Festival Music Prize Winner Worshipful Company of Fishmongers Music Scholar Recordings Available Song in the City: Voices of London, Songs of the Big Smoke (Available on Spotify) Selected Scenes Experience Mozart: Don Giovanni, Leporello, Guglielmo, Il Conte, Figaro, Antonio, Papageno Puccini: Schaunard, Marcello, Scarpia Britten: Billy Budd, Mr. Redburn, Owen Wingrave, Demetrius, Tarquinius Rossini: Figaro, Bartolo, Malatesta, Belcore Verdi: Giorgio Germont, Rigoletto, Rodrigo Delibes: Frédéric Bizet: Escamillo, Le Dancaïre Wagner: Wolfram, Hans Sachs Handel: Zoroastro, Argante Full Roles in Repertoire Antonio, Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Colas, Buff, Mozart Der Schauspiel Direktor/Bastien und Bastienne Il Re, Donizetti Francesca di Foix Schaunard, Puccini La Boheme Giorgio Germont, Verdi La Traviata Samuel, Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera Ferrando, Verdi Il Trovatore Owen, Britten Owen Wingrave Guide, Polish Father, Boy on Boat, Britten Death in Venice Gepetto, Dove The Adventures of Pinnochio Falke, Strauss Die Fledermaus (English) Ulysses (young Artist), Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses (English) Horloge and Chat, Ravel L’enfant et les sortiléges Siméon, Debussy L’enfant Prodigue Danieli, Wagner Das Liebesverbot .
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