GADD, STEPHEN

Stephen Gadd is one of Britain’s best known and most versatile concert and opera singers: he has made numerous appearances at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and he broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio. After graduating from St John’s College, Cambridge, he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He was twice a finalist in the Plácido Domingo International Singing Competition, and among other numerous awards he won the 1990 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. Since then he has performed with major orchestras in concerts throughout Europe and the Orient. His opera performances have included the title rôle in Verdi’s Macbeth and Melot in Tristan und Isolde for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Paolo in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten for the Salzburg Festival, Der Führer der Prévôté in Cardillac for Opéra de Paris, Germont Père in La traviata for Den Norske Opera, Oslo, Lysiart (Euryanthe) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Ping (Turandot) for Covent Garden, Balstrode (Peter Grimes) for Opéra de Montpellier, Valentin (Faust) for the Opéra National du Rhin, Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera) for English National Opera, Escamillo in Carmen for Welsh National Opera, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Riccardo (I Puritani) and Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) for Opéra de Nantes, the Conte di Luna (Il trovatore), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Germont Père (La traviata) and Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) - all for Scottish Opera, de Siriex in Fedora for Opera Holland Park, Marcello (La Bohème) for the Beijing International Festival, Silvio (I Pagliacci) and Scarpia (Tosca) at the Festival de la Vézère, Escamillo (Carmen) in Hong Kong, Ferryman (Britten’s Curlew River) for Opéra de Rouen, and the Duke in Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight for BBC Radio 3. His concert repertoire is equally diverse, including Britten’s War Requiem, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Brahms’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Handel’s Messiah, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Stephen Gadd’s recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include Mozart’s Krönungsmesse and Vesperae Solenne Confessore and Purcell’s Dioclesian, and for Hyperion he has recorded Hamish MacCunn’s opera Jeannie Deans. He has also recorded highlights from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and La Bohème with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and his wife, the soprano Claire Rutter.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols / Hodie	8.570439
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde (Glyndebourne, 2007) (NTSC)	OA0988D