Robert Burt was born in London and studied at the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama. Since graduating in 1989 his career has taken him to opera houses and concert halls around the world. He is most associated with the role of Iro in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria which he has sung for Chicago Opera Theater‚ Opera North‚ Deutsche Oper am Rhein‚ Geneva Opera‚ Teatro Real de Madrid and the Aix-en-Provence Festival with whom he has toured Europe‚ filmed the role for DVD and given performances at B.A.M. in New York in Adrian Noble’s production‚ conducted by William Christie. Christie has also conducted him in Cesti’s Il Tito at Opera National du Rhin and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival
Most recently he has sung King Bobeche Bluebeard at Grange Park‚ Snout A Midsummer Night’s Dream for ENO‚ L’Incredibile Andreas Chenier‚ Fiorello Il Barbieri di Siviglia and Hadji Lakme at Opera Holland Park and Ximenez in David Pountney’s Opera North production of Kurt Weill’s Arms and the Cow. Other recent productions include world premieres of both Family Matters for Tête à Tête Opera and Stephen Barlow’s King - a Cathedral Opera‚ as Henry II‚ in Canterbury Cathedral which is due to be revived in Palermo‚ Sicily in 2010.
Other operatic roles include Monostatos Magic Flute for Opera 80 and 1st Armed Man in Parma‚ Ferrara and the QEH with John Eliot Gardiner; Tanzmeister/Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos for ETO and at Broomhill in Jonathan Miller’s production; Goro Madama Butterfly with both the RLPO and Mid-Wales Opera. With MWO he sang Dancairo Carmen and has also performed the role of Remendado at the Bermuda Festival. On several occasions he has portrayed women‚ three of which were in works by Cavalli; Flerida in L’Erismena for Opera Theatre Company‚ Ireland‚ Atrea Pompeo Magno at the Varazdin Baroque Festival in Croatia and‚ most recently‚ Delfa Giasone at the Iford Festival with the Early Opera Company. As well as these‚ he portrayed Bragherona in Gassmann’s L’Opera Seria for the Nationale Reisopera to whom he returned to sing Bob Boles in Peter Grimes‚ Kevin in the world premiere of Snow White and The Queen of England in another world premiere of Hôtel de Pékin by Willem Jeths
In recent years Robert has found himself in demand as an actor. Having been a member of Trevor Nunn’s National Theatre Ensemble in 1999/2000 and completing three Winter season’s at the RSC playing the role of Father Christmas in their adaptation of The Lion‚ The Witch And The Wardrobe he returned to Stratford in 2007 for the Complete Works Festival in Merry Wives‚ The Musical as The Host of the Garter Inn‚ understudying Simon Callow as Falstaff.
Plans include Arnalta L’Incoronazione di Poppea in Madrid‚ Evangelist in a fully staged St. John Passion and a revival of L’Opera Seria for Nationale Reisopera. Further performances of Mopsa/Flute The Fairy Queen are scheduled at the Opera Comique in Paris‚ Caen and B.A.M. in New York with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants . A film from the Glyndebourne performances of Jonathan Kent’s production will be released on DVD with a cinema distribution in 2010.
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