Stephen Richardson (Bass)
Stephen Richardson was born in Liverpool and studied at Manchester
University and the Royal Northern College of Music. He has created
roles in many important contemporary works including Thomas Adиs’s The
Tempest (Royal Opera House); Tan Dun’s Marco Polo (The Netherlands
Opera) and Tea (Suntory Hall‚ Tokyo); Gerald Barry’s The Triumph
of Beauty and Deceit and The Intelligence Park; John
Tavener’s Eis Thanaton‚ Resurrection‚ The Apocalypse and Fall and
Resurrection (City of London Sinfonia‚ St Paul’s Cathedral); and
the British premiere of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale (ENO).
Apart from his personal commitment to performing New Music, Stephen
Richardson performs traditional repertoire regularly. For ENO he has also
sung Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier) and Daland
(Der fliegende Hollдnder). He has appeared
in Billy Budd at the ROH Covent Garden and L’Opйra
de Paris, Bastille. He has made his debut at Opera Australia
in the title rфle of Verdi’s Falstaff and
Sarastro in Die Zauberflцte. In 2007 he
performed Adиs’ Powder Her Face at the New Mariinsky Concert Hall
in St.Petersburg.
Recent engagements include Kaspar
in Der Freischьtz (Opйra de Rennes); Don
Quichotte in Fйnelon’s Le Chevalier Imaginaire
(Ensemble Intercontemporain)‚ Monterone
in Rigoletto‚ Bartolo in Le nozze
di Figaro (Grange Park Opera) and X
in Powder her Face (London Symphony Orchestra concert/Thomas
Adиs). Further roles include Count Waldner
in Arabella‚ Mamirov in The
Enchantress‚ Daland‚ Claggart‚
Fasolt‚ Osmin‚ Colline‚
Commendatore‚ Sparafucile‚
Swallow‚ Timur‚ and Sir
Morosus in Die schweigsame Frau. He appears
regularly with Netherlands Opera‚ De Vlaamse Opera‚ Opera National
de Paris‚ Teatro alla Scala‚ Oper der Stadt Bonn‚ Istanbul Festival‚ Lyric
Opera of Chicago‚ Salzburg Festival and Nationale Reisopera.
Concert repertoire includes Anubis/Death of Kong
in Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong (Royal Festival Hall/ Martyn
Brabbins)‚ Hansel and Gretel (BBC Concert Orchestra)‚ Messiah
(Carnegie Hall/ Trevor Pinnock)‚ Oedipus Rex (BBC Stravinsky
Festival/ Sir Andrew Davis)‚ Nixon in China (London Symphony
Orchestra) and Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety
Pigglety Pop! (Cleveland Orchestra and London Sinfonietta/ Knussen).
Recordings include Where the Wild Things Are‚ title role
in Goehr’s Death of Moses (Unicorn Kanchana)‚ Purcell’s
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary (DG Archiv)‚ Stravinsky’s
The Flood and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Philips) and Albert Herring (Chandos).
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