Omar Ebrahim

Gesar for the Munich Biennale and Tanglewood, and The Raft of the Medusa (Henze) with BBC Stephen Oliver's Beauty and the Beast for City of Symphony Orchestra. He also played Archie Birmingham Touring , Nigel Osborne's Cannibal in Chips with Everything at Leeds Terrible Mouth and Jonathan Dove's Siren Song Playhouse, Alan Yentob in new musical for Almeida Opera and Punch and Judy for Basel Committee at the Donmar Warehouse and Opera. For Opera Factory he has appeared in Danaos/Egytian Herald in The Suppliant Women roles ranging from Punch Punch & Judy though with the Actors Touring Company in Edinburgh, to Don Giovanni . He sang in the highly Dublin and at the Young Vic. acclaimed performance of Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus at the South Bank Centre's Birtwistle Recent successes include performances of Enno Festival. He has also sung concert performances Poppe’s new commission IQ – Enie Testbatterie at of 's Satyagraha at SBC and the Schwetzingen Festival, as well as premiere’s the title role in Laman's Agamemnon at the of The Navigator by Liza Lim with Elision Holland Festival. He sang in John Casken’s God’s Ensemble in Brisbane, Melbourne, Amsterdam Liar for Almeida Opera and , and Moscow, ’s The House of the the premiere of Peter Eotvos’s Angels in America Sleeping Beauties in Brussels, Paris and at the Chatelet Theatre Paris and Jonathan Amsterdam, Skellig by Todd Machover at The Lunn’s Tangier Tattoo for GTO. Sage Gateshead, and Enno Poppe’s Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung at the Munich Biennale, Other roles have included Schaunard La Vienna, Stuttgart, Venice, Madrid and Berlin. He Bohème and Tobias Sweeney Todd for New sang in Catherine Kontz’s Neige for Les Théâtres Israeli Opera, Bartolo Marriage of Figaro for de la Ville de Luxembourg. English Touring Opera, Escamillo Carmen and Der Kaiser von Atlantis for Opera Theatre Recent concerts include Caleb Raven Yan Tan Company Dublin, the lead role in Marschner's Tethera as part of the Birtwistle at 80 Festival at The Vampyr for BBC Television and Edward the Barbican Centre. He also sang Philip Glass’s Rushton’s Babur In London . He has performed In the Penal Colony at the Linbury Theatre The Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny , Covent Garden, subsequently recorded for CD “ That ever-remarkable Iolanthe and Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera release. Other recent engagements include and the title role in Richard Jones acclaimed collaborations with Ensemble Mosaik, an baritone Omar Ebrahim, always production of Verdi's Macbeth for Opera Go appearance at the Internationale Stiftung sensitive to text, had chilling Round. Mozarteum in Salzburg with MusikFabrik as part ” of their DIALOGE Festival, the role of Narrator in authority as the Officer Closely associated with Gyorgy Ligeti ’s A Flowering Tree by John Adams for Göteborg Fiona Maddocks, The Observer Aventures, nouvelles aventures , he has Opera and House of the Sleeping Beauties by performed the piece to critical acclaim with Yasunari Kawabata and Kris Defoort in Japan. ensembles worldwide, including Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Esa Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Highlights of the 2018/19 season include the title Philharmonic, also recording the work with role in Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood Salonen and the Philharmonia for Sony. More for Boston Lyric Opera, Aventures, nouvelle Omar Ebrahim became a chorister at the newly recently he has performed Aventures at the BBC aventures at Bergen International Festival and built Coventry Cathedral in 1964 and his Proms and in the Lincoln Center New York. Olga Neuwirth’s The Outcast at Hamburg subsequent exposure to a vibrant cultural life led Elbphilharmonie.. him to study singing at the Guildhall School of Other ensembles that Omar Ebrahim has worked Music and Drama. He served his performing with include Ensemble Modern, London apprenticeship at the Royal Shakespeare Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Company and in the Glyndebourne chorus, Royal Northern Sinfonia, musikFabrik, Bochum Valid for use until 1 September 2019 performing the role of Schaunard La Bohème for Symphoniker, Stavanger Symphony, For updated versions please contact

Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Vara Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Mosaik, Esbjerg [email protected] Ensemble and Ensemble Umze at the He has been involved with many contemporary Huddersfield Festival. opera and concert performances including Nigel Osborne's The Electrification of the Soviet Union , As an actor he has performed Schoenberg's Ode Tippett’s New Year and Birtwistle’s The Second to Napoleon at the Salzburg Festival as well as at Mrs. Kong for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Festival Hall with the London Berio’s Un re in ascolto , Birtwistle’s Gawain for Philharmonic, and Strauss's melodrama on the Royal Opera House, Hans Jürgen von Bose's Tennyson's Enoch Arden for IRCAM in Paris, as 63 Dream Palace and Peter Lieberson's King well as A Survivor from Warsaw (Schoenberg)

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