Recent and future engagements include Schoolmaster “The Cunning Little Vixen”(Netherlands Opera)‚ Beadle “Sweeney Tod”(Chatelet)‚ Basilio (Metropolitan Opera‚ New York and Aix en Provence)‚ Broucek (Opera North and Scottish Opera)‚ Aschenbach Death in Venice‚ Basilio‚ Tikhon Katya Kabanova‚ Berger “Oedipe”and Sellem (La Monnaie)‚ Michel Juliette and Der Narr Wozzeck (Bastille)‚ Podesta La finta giardiniera (Salzburg)‚ Doctor The Fall of the House of Usher‚ L’Incredibile Andrea Chenier and title role King Roger(Bregenz)‚ Bob Boles Peter Grimes (La Scala‚ Milan)‚ Basilio and Monostatos (Covent Garden)‚ Mayor/Abrenuccio Love and Other Demons (Glyndebourne)‚ Eisenstein Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne on Tour)‚ Tikhon‚ Herod‚ Ajax 1 La Belle Helene‚ Vitek The Makropulos Case and Shuisky Boris Godunov(ENO)‚ and Basilio‚ Herod and Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos on Chandos recordings.
John Graham-Hall studied at King’s College‚ Cambridge and the Royal College of Music. He has sung with all the major British opera companies where roles include Albert Herring‚ Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos and Monostatos (Royal Opera House‚ Covent Garden)‚ Vanya Kudrjas Katya Kabanova‚ Flute Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Basilio and Bob Boles (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)‚ Valzacchi‚ Basilio‚ Monostatos‚ Lysander Herod (English National Opera)‚ Cassio (Welsh National Opera)‚ Eisenstein‚ Schoolmaster The Cunning Little Vixen (Scottish Opera)‚ Aschenbach‚ Lysander‚ Albert Herring and Ferrando (Glyndebourne Touring Opera)‚ Mayor Albert Herring‚ Elcius Croesus and Dr Caius (Opera North) and Dada in the premiere of Nyman’s Man and Boy (Almeida Opera). He was until recently a member of the English National Opera where roles included Mime‚ Herod‚ Valzacchi‚ Sylvester The Silver Tassie‚ Goro‚ Triquet‚ Monostatos‚ Shabby Peasant Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Alwa Lulu.
Engagements abroad have included Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos‚ Cassio and Basilio (La Monnaie)‚ Young Man/A Naked Youth Moses und Aron (Netherlands Opera‚ Salzburg Festival and Deutsche Grammophon recording)‚ Shapkin From the House of the Dead (Nice Opera)‚ Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Paris‚ Lyon‚ Caen‚ Montpellier‚ Rome‚ Ravenna Festival)‚ Officier Der Diktatur and Gaston Schwergewicht (Krenek double bill‚ Stuttgart)‚ Lensky (Lyon and Toronto)‚ Ferrando (Vancouver)‚ Cassio and Telemacus Il Ritorno d’Ulysse in Patria (Lisbon)‚ Achilles King Priam and Prince/Marquis/Manservant Lulu (Antwerp)‚ Basilio and Spoletta (Netherlands Opera)‚ Bob Boles (Salzburg Festival‚ Berlin Philharmonic and Netherlands Opera)‚ Tikhon Katya Kabanova (Lyon)‚ Basilio (La Monnaie)‚ and the title role in Pascal Dusapin’s Perela‚ L’homme de Fumée (Bastille‚ Paris and Montpellier).
John Graham-Hall has worked with conductors including Haitink‚ Harnoncourt‚ Boulez‚ Andrew Davis‚ Tate‚ Rattle‚ Gardiner and Abbado. He has given concerts all over Europe and with the major British orchestras‚ and appeared frequently at the Barbican and the South Bank. Recent concerts include Messiah (Minnesota)‚ Henze’s Kammermusik 1958 (Purcell Room and Stuttgart‚ under Markus Stenz)‚ Winterreise (St. John’s Smith Square with Malcolm Martineau)‚ Britten War Requiem (Gothenburg Cathedral)‚ Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake” (BBC Proms under Libor Pesek)‚ Peter Grimes (Lisbon) and Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love (Barbican)‚ both with Richard Hickox ‚ and Paris King Priam (BBC National Orchestra of Wales). Recordings include Carmina Burana‚ Lloyd Webber songs‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ and “Peter Grimes” and Wozzeck (Chandos).
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