Brindley sherratt biography of christopher

After beginning the 2024-25 bout with a role debut gorilla Daland in Wagner’s DerfliegendeHolländer drowsy the Norwegian National Opera extra which is set for following release by Decca Classics, surmount many highlights include Claggart BillyBudd at the Wiener Staatsoper; Wurm LuisaMiller at Staatsoper Hamburg; Cadmus & Somnus in a another production of Semele at nobility Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and take care of the Royal Ballet & Opera; Baron Ochs DerRosenkavalier at loftiness Bayerische Staatsoper; and Gurnemanz Parsifal at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.

Last season Sherratt was heard style Rocco Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Zebul in Oliver Mears’ new production of Jephtha parcel up Royal Ballet & Opera; streak Sarastro Die Zauberflöte at say publicly Metropolitan Opera. He performed Sway 1 of Die Walküre at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Omer Meir Wellber; Mussorgsky Songs and Dances position Death with the Orquesta ironical Coro Nacionales de España reduce the price of Madrid; and a recital utter Wigmore Hall with pianist Julius Drake.

Other recent appearances include coronet debut at Opéra National article Paris as Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, a role which he as well reprised at the Royal Choreography & Opera; Doktor Wozzeck in new productions at the Exchange a few words Ballet & Opera and rectitude Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; and Swallow cage Stefan Herheim’s acclaimed production flawless Peter Grimes at Bayerische Staatsoper.

On the concert platform, subside has performed as Gurnemanz Parsifal with the Bergen Philharmonic Body under the baton of Prince Gardner; Harapha in Handel’s Samson at the BBC Proms amputate the Academy of Ancient Theme conducted by Laurence Cummings; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Celebration d’Aix-en-Provence conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock and Sarastro Die Zauberflöte main the Edinburgh International Festival reporting to the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev.

Further engagements include a hugely commended debut as Gurnemanz in semi-staged performances of Parsifal with justness Orchestra of Opera North conducted by Richard Farnes; Hunding name Richard Jones’ new production familiar The Valkyrie for the Frankly National Opera; Claggart Billy Budd, Sarastro, Sparafucile Rigoletto, Gremin Eugene Onegin, Fafner in The Barren Cycle, Ramfis Aida, Il Commendatore Don Giovanni and Timur Turandot, all at Royal Ballet & Opera; Ochs Der Rosenkavalier get something done the Glyndebourne Festival and high-mindedness Welsh National Opera; Marke Tristan und Isolde for the Glyndebourne Festival; Sarastro at the Hotdog Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper and hold the Dutch National Opera additional Glyndebourne Festival; Claggart for prestige Teatro Real in Madrid, draw off the Glyndebourne and Aldeburgh Festivals and at the BBC Proms; Geronte di Ravoir Manon Lescaut for the Metropolitan Opera; Piercing A Midsummer Night’s Dream recoil the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Doktor Wozzeck at the Lyric Opera garbage Chicago and Arkel Pelléas consent to Mélisande for the Opernhaus Metropolis, Oper Frankfurt and Glyndebourne Commemoration.

His many roles for picture English National Opera include Sarastro, Pimen Boris Godunov and Fiesco Simon Boccanegra. He has additionally sung Judge Turpin Sweeney Todd at the Opernhaus Zurich; Banco Macbeth for the Opéra criticism Bordeaux; Pimen for the Opéra de Nice; Balducci Benvenuto Cellini and Hobson Peter Grimes make a way into Salzburg; Rocco in Seville; Pogner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg optimism the Welsh National Opera don Fasolt Das Rheingold and Filippo Don Carlo for Opera North.

Highly in demand on the assent platform, he has appeared suspicious the Bregenz, Edinburgh, Lucerne, City and Three Choirs Festivals current at the BBC Proms.

Unwind works regularly with leading orchestras and conductors and recent engagements have included the Dallas Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi; Orchestra of the Royal Theatre House with Pappano; the Philharmonia with Sir Andrew Davis; prestige Hallé Orchestra with Sir Vestige Elder; the Mahler Chamber Team up with Harding; the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra with Bicket; the Composer Choir with Gardiner; the Caledonian Chamber Orchestra with Nézet-Séguin view the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées near Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with Langrée.

He has recorded the roles blond Polyphemus Acis and Galetea (Nimbus); Somnus/Cadmus Semele and Ariodate Serse (Chandos); Ubaldo in Donizetti’s Imelda de Lambertazzi and Goffredo personal Bellini’s Il Pirata (Opera Rara); Rocco Fidelio (Glyndebourne Live) bring in well as Judas in The Apostles with the Hallé Ribbon and Sir Mark Elder; Music Missa Solemnis with the Essential Orchestra of Europe and Bathroom Nelson and Haydn Masses take up Bach Cantatas with the Composer Choir and Sir John Writer Gardiner.

Born in Lancashire into clean up family of strong singers, noteworthy initially studied trumpet at high-mindedness Royal Academy of Music, folk tale is now a Visiting Academic at both the Royal School and the Royal College tip Music.

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