Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
(Tenors)
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Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
(Tenors) Biography:
Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts was born in Wales and read music at Lancaster University before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music with Barbara Robotham. His concert repertoire covers most of the major oratorios, ranging from the Bach Passions through Mozart and Verdi’s Requiems to Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Berlioz’ l’Enfance du Christ and Le Grande Messe des Morts. He has performed in Martinu’s Epic of Gilgamesh with the CBSO conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Arwel Hughes’ Pantycelyn in Brecon Cathedral (televised by S4C), and his BBC Proms debut in 1997 of Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and the Mahagonny Songspiel. Most recently he sang Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in Denmark, a BBC recital, Poetry in Motion, with Iain Burnside, Molqui The Death of Klinghoffer and Bartok Cantata Profana with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten’s War Requiem in Belgrade, Psalmus Hungarias, Berlioz’s Te Deum with The Huddersfield Choral Society, and Dream of Gerontius with the BBC Philharmonic and Vassily Sinaisky. He has worked regularly with Opera North, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera and has also sung for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, and the Chelsea Opera Group. In spring 2005 he sang Alwa/Lulu for English National Opera. In 2006/7 Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts enjoyed a huge success in the title role of Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Peter Grimes, which won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award as opera prediction of the year and made his Covent Garden debut in Richard Jones’ production of Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Antonio Pappano. He sang the title role in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival and will retrun to Covent Garden in 09/10 for The Gambler and to Opera North for Janacek's The Adventures of Mr Broucek This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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