Brighton born Robert Poulton studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. He has subsequently sung principal roles with all the major UK companies and in Europe. He made his professional debut singing the Ferryman in Britten’s Curlew River for BBCTV and then spent much of his early career at Glyndebourne‚ winning the John Christie Award and the Esso/GTO Award.
Among his many roles are Count Almaviva Figaro’s Wedding‚ Ned Keene Peter Grimes‚ Leander The Love for Three Oranges and the Animal Tamer/Acrobat Lulu for English National Opera; Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro‚ Prus The Makropulos Case‚ Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande‚ Marcello La Bohéme and Germont La Traviata for Glyndebourne Touring Opera; Ned Keene and Starek Jenufa for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Peter Hansel and Gretel for Welsh National Opera and Opera Northern Ireland. He has also sung Figaro for Scottish Opera‚ Leander for Opera North‚ Falstaff for Garsington‚ Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Eugene Onegin for Grange Park and Douphol La Traviata at Covent Garden.
Roles abroad include Harasta Cunning Little Vixen‚ Punch Punch and Judy and Starek for Netherlands Opera‚ Don Giovanni‚ Prus and Leander for Opera Zuid‚ Minskman Flight for Vlaamse Opera and in the Adelaide Festival and Ned Keene in Amsterdam‚ Nantes‚ Bremen‚ Copenhagen and Cologne.
Notable appearances include Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte‚ Chorebus The Capture of Troy and Animal Tamer/Acrobat for ENO‚ Germont and Podesta Thieving Magpie at Opera North‚ Leporello Don Giovanni and Bartolo for Garsington‚ Don Magnifico La Cenerentola at Grange Park and the Vicar Albert Herring and the Foreman Jenufa and Minskman for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Robert has also created roles in many contemporary operas including The Vanishing Bridegroom by Judith Weir for Scottish Opera‚ The Juniper Tree by Roderick Watkins for the Munich Biennale and the Almeida and‚ most recently‚ David Sawyer’s From Morning to Midnight for ENO. He has worked extensively with directors including Sir Peter Hall‚ Richard Jones‚ Nikolaus Lehnhoff‚ Pierre Audi‚ David McVicar and Willi Deker.
Robert has made many television recordings and appearances and has performed extensively on the concert platform in all the major UK venues as well as Israel‚ Singapore‚ Oman‚ France‚ Italy and Spain.
Recent & future projects include Falstaff‚ Leporello‚ and Don Magnifico with Welsh National Opera‚ Marquis La Traviata‚ Benoit & Alcindoro La bohème and Prince Arjuna Satyagraha at ENO‚ Scarpia Tosca‚ Forester The Cunning Little Vixen‚ title role Falstaff and Popoloni Bluebeard at Grange Park Opera‚ Germont Pere La Traviata with Opera Holland Park‚ Harasta with Netherlands Opera‚ Don Magnifico for Gran Teatre del Liceu in Pamplona & Valladolid‚ Golaud Pelleas and Melisande Opera Theatre Company Dublin‚ baritone roles Death in Venice Salzburger Landestheater‚ Marco Gianni Schicchi and Baron Duphol La Traviata Royal Opera House‚ Covent Garden and Ortel Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Glyndebourne Festival.
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