​Alastair Merry
Alastair Merry
Curriculum Vitae
LANGUAGES
English and German
Baritone, Six solo voices Moses und Aron Welsh National Opera
1st Bass Solo and Fisherman Peter Grimes London Voices (Shanghai and Beijing)
Count The Marriage of Figaro New Cornwall Opera
Frederick For the Love of Undine Oops for Theatre (Premiere Performance)
Antonio The Gondoliers Buxton Gilbert and Sullivan Festival
Baritone soloist Too Hot to Handel Armonico Consort
Un Pastore Aureliano in Palmyra (Rossini) Opera Rara/LPO/Marizio Benini
Dancairo Carmen Opera Loki
Kromov The Merry Widow First Act Opera
Dancairo Carmen Lakeland Opera
Achis & Ghost of Samuel David et Jonathas Ignoti Dei Opera, Baltimore, USA
Baritone (Jazz trio) Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein) Second Movement
Forester/off-stage huntsman Rusalka Opera School Wales
Harasta The Cunning Little Vixen Surrey Opera
Sid Albert Herring Almaviva Opera
OPERA - SOLO
2010 - present
2010 - present
OPERA - CHORUS
Welsh National Opera: Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Un Ballo in Maschera, War and Peace, Moses und Aron, Lohengrin, La Damnation de Faust
English National Opera: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Otello, The Girl of the Golden West, Peter Grimes (at the London Coliseum and BBC Proms), The Flying Dutchman, Billy Budd, Eugene Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, The Damnation of Faust , Parsifal, Faust , The Pearl Fishers, Idomeneo, Turandot, Le Grand Macabre, Peter Grimes, Aida, Cavelleria Rusticana, Pagliacci
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Grange Park Opra - La Fanciulla del West and Don Carlos (Flemish Deputy)
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Longborough Festival Opera - Fidelio, Tristan und Isolde and Rigoletto
Raymond Gubbay Ltd: Carmen and Aida
Opera Holland Park: Lakme and Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Garsington Opera: Der Stein der Weisen, Cosi Fan Tutte
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Carl Rosa Opera: Mikado and HMS Pinafore, USA tour
Glyndebourne Opera: Tristan und Isolde
CONCERT/RECORDING
The Wessex Consort - 'Tis Christmastide (Aeterna Records)
Opera Rara - Semiramide (recording and concert at the BBC Proms)
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English National Opera: Macbeth recording (Chandos Records)
Temple Church Choir - The Majesty of thy Glory, A Festival of Psalms, and A Knight's Progress (Signum Records)
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London Voices: Peter Grimes (China Tour 2014), Lohengrin, 'The Golden Compass' - film score recording, Ligeti Requiem and Tallis’ Spem in Alium
Britten Sinfonia Voices: ‘Looking Forward’ - World Premiere.
EMI Classics: Dr Dee (Damon Albarn), album recording.
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir: Various projects (between 2001 and 2010) including recordings and concerts as part of Opera Rara with the LPO and OAE under Mark Elder, David Parry and Maurizio Benini, as well as two BBC Proms – Fidelio/Daniel Barenboim and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony/Christoph von Dohnányi
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Netherlands Radio Choir: Il Trovatore, Die Meistersinger, St Matthew Passion, The Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky)
Philharmonia Voices: Verdi Requiem, A Survivor from Warsaw (BBC Proms) Oedipus Rex, Gurrelieder.
BBC Singers: 40 part motets in concert live on BBC Radio 3, Recording of Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.
Simon Joly Chorale: Six Pieces for Male Chorus a cappella, Op. 35; Friede auf Erden (Schönberg) for Naxos Label
Oxford Lieder Festival: Solo recital of Schumann's Kerner Lieder and Wolf's Mörike Lieder
ORATORIO
Missa Salisburgensis - Biber
Bach's St John Passion (Arias and Pilate)
Mass in C (Beethoven)
Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams)
Messa di Gloria ( Puccini)
The Opening of the Wells (Martinu)
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
Petite Messe Solemnelle (Rossini)
Requiem (Durufle, Faure, Brahms, Mozart)
Jehptha, Saul, Sampson, Messiah, (Handel)
Songs of the Fleet (Stanford)
Wachet Auf, B Minor Mass (Bach)
Lukas Passion (Telemann)
In Terra Pax (Finzi)
Vespers of 1610 (Monteverdi)
MASTERCLASSES
Emma Kirkby, Teresa Cahill, Stephen Varcoe, Sir Thomas Allen, Sarah Walker & Graham Johnson
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CHURCH
Regular choir member of the Temple Church, London.
EDUCATION
CONSERVATOIRE: Post graduate diploma (Guildhall School of Music, 2003)
MMus in music performance (Guildhall School of Music, 2002)
UNIVERSITY: 2:1 Honours Degree in music (BA/Mus) Worcester College, Oxford (1999)
I also held a Choral Scholarship at Worcester College