Graham Clark
(Tenors)
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Graham Clark
(Tenors) Biography:
Graham Clark was born in Lancashire, England, and made his professional operatic début with Scottish Opera in 1975. He was a Principal of English National Opera from 1978 to 1985 and has also sung with the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera North and Welsh National Opera in the U.K. He has had an extensive international career since 1976, including a) 16 seasons and over 100 performances at the Bayreuth Festspiele. 1981 – 2004 b) 14 seasons at The Metropolitan Opera, New York. 1985 – 2006 c) many performances in Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin (Deutsche Oper, Deutsche Staatsoper), Bilbao, Bonn, Brussels, Catania, Chicago, Dallas, Geneva, Hamburg, Madrid, Matsumoto, Milan La Scala, Munich, Nice, Paris (Bastille, Champs Élysées, Châtelet, Palais Garnier), Rome, Salzburg, San Francisco, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Vancouver, Vienna, Yokohama, Zurich. 1976 – 2005 d) Over 350 Wagner performances including over 200 performances of Der Ring des Nibelungen. 1977 – 2005 He has recorded with the BBC, BMG, Decca, EMI, Erato, EuroArts, Opera Rara, Opus Arte, Philips, Sony, Teldec and The Met. He has made several videos including: The Ghosts of Versailles (The Met, New York); Die Meistersinger, Der fliegende Holländer, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuther Festspiele); Wozzeck (Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and The Met, New York); Ariadne auf Naxos (Opéra National de Paris) and Der Ring des Nibelungen (Liceu, Barcelona). He has sung in many international music festivals including Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, London (Proms), Lucerne, Milan, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv and Washington. He has received three nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Opera, including an American Emmy, in 1983, 1986 and 1993. He won the Sir Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doktor Faust. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters, Loughborough University, in 1999. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: Artist Links: |
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