With his successful debut at the prestigious 2007 Salzburg Easter Festival as Fasolt in Das Rheingold, Iain Paterson has confirmed his status as one of Europe's leading young bass-baritones.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied with Neilson Taylor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and made his professional debut as Biterolf in Tannhäuser for Opera North, for whom other roles have included Leporello Don Giovanni, and Mozart's Figaro. In 2000, he debuted with Welsh National Opera as Timur Turandot, returning for several roles including Sparafucile Rigoletto, 1st Nazarene Salome, Ferrando Il Trovatore, Titurel Parsifal, and in 2005, creating the title role in Orlando Gough and Richard Chew's The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea.
2001 marked the beginning of a fruitful relationship with English National Opera, where Iain remained a Company Principal until 2005. Roles have included Leporello, Ferrando, Colline and Schaunard La Bohême, Pantheus The Trojans, Theseus A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Hugh Evans Sir John in Love, Mill Foreman Jenufa, Fasolt Das Rheingold and Gunther Götterdämmerung and most recently Figaro in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro.
In 2004 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Graf Lamoral in Richard Strauss' Arabella conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi, returning in 2006 as Le Bret alongside Plaçido Domingo in Cyrano de Bergerac, conducted by Mark Elder. This year Iain made his debut at the prestigious Salzburg Easter Festival, enjoying great success as Fasolt Das Rheingold with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle.
Other operatic engagements have included Leporello, Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine, Theseus A Midsummer Night's Dream, Teatro Real Madrid and Glyndebourne Festival, Mozart's Figaro, Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Amonasro Aida in a new production for ENO conducted by Edward Gardner. For Birmingham Opera Group, under the direction of Graham Vick, Iain has sung Music-master Ariadne Sells Out and Traveller Curlew River , the latter being televised from the BBC Proms.
Concert appearances have included Timur Leonard Slatkin with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the UK performance premiere of Luciano Berio's completion of the score, Orest Elektra, Edinburgh International Festival RSNO/Edward Gardner. Other concert engagements have included Verdi's Requiem/Halifax Choral Society & Royal Albert Hall, Beethoven's 9th Symphony/RPO, Dream of Gerontius/Hallé Orchestra, Elijah Philharmonia Orchestra/Paul Daniel, and Messiah Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra /Edward Gardner.
Future engagements include his role debut as Don Giovanni for the Chicago Opera Theater, Monterone Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, Amonasro Aida English National Opera. In 2009 Iain will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York as Gunther Götterdämmerung under James Levine. This will be followed in 2010 by his debut at the Opéra de Bastille Paris as Fasolt and Gunter in Günther Kraemer's new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Philippe Jordan. In 2010 Iain will sing Redburn in a new production of Billy Budd at Glyndebourne conducted by Mark Elder.
Future concert work includes the Australian premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Oleg Caetani and his BBC Proms debut singing Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Iain Paterson is represented by Intermusica.
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