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Robert Hayward
(Baritones & Basses) Biography:
Robert Hayward studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio and made his professional opera debut singing the title role in Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1986. Since then he has performed at the Royal Opera House, ENO, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, WNO, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New Israeli Opera, and Minnesota Opera in a wide repertoire including Wotan and the Wanderer in the Ring, Amfortas/Parsifal, Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde, Jokanaan/Salome, Figaro and Count Almaviva/Le Nozze di Figaro, the title roles in Eugene Onegin, Der Fliegende Holländer, Mazepa and Don Giovanni, Iago/Otello, Ford/Falstaff, Scarpia/Tosca, Marcello/La bohème, Escamillo/Carmen, Tomsky/The Queen of Spades, Khovansky/Khovanshchina, Nick Shadow/The Rake’s Progress, Mandryka/Arabella and Golaud/Pelleas et Melisande. He has appeared with many of this country's leading orchestras and concert engagements have included Belshazzar's Feast with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Northern Sinfonia, Halle and London Philharmonic Orchestras, Tippett's The Mask of Time, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Haydn's Creation with the Halle, Haydn's Creation in Lisbon and with the Philharmonia under Claus Peter Flor, The Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and in Copenhagen, Mozart Requiem with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti, and Das Klagende Lied with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Bath Festival and in a recording for Chandos Records. Recent engagements have included the title roles in Macbeth and Falstaff for Opera North, and Mandryka/Arabella and Telramund/Lohengrin in Frankfurt and he will return to Frankfurt in 2010 to sing the title role in Duke Bluebard's Castle. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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