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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

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