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Alan Opie

Baritone Alan Opie has appeared as a regular season, King Olav with the Bergen Symphony guest at the New York, La Orchestra also recorded for Chandos and The Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Scottish Staatsoper Munich, Santa Fe Festival, National Orchestra. Glyndebourne Festival Opera, , Welsh National Opera and Royal Opera Alan Opie has recorded for CBS, EMI, Hyperion, House Covent Garden. He has also performed Chandos, Naxos and Decca. Releases include at the , singing Beckmesser – “Alan Opie Sings Bel Canto Arias”, Britten’s a role also repeated in Berlin, Amsterdam, , , for Munich, Vienna and Turin. At ENO he was which he received a Grammy Award, Death in nominated for the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Venice , The Rape of Lucretia and The Beauty Opera’ Olivier Award for his performance of Stone , Delius’ Mass of Life , the title role in . Dallapiccola’s Ulisse , Tonio I , Enrico in , Smirnov in Walton’s Alan Opie’s operatic appearances have also The Bear , Carlo in , di Luna in Il included leading roles for the Deutsche Trovatore , the title role in Il Barbiere di Siviglia Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von San Carlo in Naples, in the UK, Nurnberg under Sir for which he Canadian Opera Company, Paris Opera Bastille received his second Grammy award. and Theatre Musical du Chatelet and the opera houses of Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Alan Opie sang the title role in The Death of San Diego, Opera Sydney, Amsterdam, Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera and , Florence, Cagliari, Spoleto, recently returned there to sing Frank Die Strasbourg, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Fledermaus, Arbace and “ Alan Opie offered a richly Lisbon and Oslo among others. His roles with Gamekeeper Russalka. Recent roles for nuanced portrayal of the title these companies have included , English National Opera include Germont , Giorgio Germont , Balstrode , Beckmesser , Doctor Bartolo , and creating the role of The role…attuned to every subtlety Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini ), Scarpia , The Pathologist in Iain Bell’s new opera Jack the of text and melodic contour...his Forester (Cunning Little Vixen ), Sharpless , Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel . Napoleon , and Falstaff. He has performed in singing invariably hit home. ” the world premieres of Berio’s Outis and Bright In the 2019/20 season Alan Opie returns to the Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun Sheng’s Chairman Mao, as well as Opera Metropolitan Opera to perform Le Bailli Holland Park’s production of Gianni Schicchi. Werther .

He has also appeared with many leading In the birthday honours of 2013 Alan Opie orchestras including the Symphony orchestras received an OBE for services to music . . of Boston, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Colorado,

San Francisco as well as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Israel Philharmonic, Gothenburg Valid for use until 1 September 2020 Symphony, Dusseldorf Philharmonic, Sydney For updated versions please contact Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Royal [email protected] Scottish National, RAI Turin, BBC Symphony, London Symphony, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic.

His extensive concert work has included performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in San Francisco and Dallas; Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast in Dallas, Denver and Carnegie Hall; Britten’s War in Washington, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony in Los Angeles, Elgar’s The Kingdom with the Halle Orchestra in honour of the 150th anniversary of Elgar’s birth The Apostles as part of the BBC Proms 2007

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