Anthony Gregory

Last season’s highlights include the title role in Bernstein’s Candide at Bergen National Opera, a return to Den Norske Opera as Don Ottavio and the world premiere of Stuart MacRae’s Anthropocene at Scottish Opera. His busy concert season included a European tour of St John Passions with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Dr Maxwell / Staff Officer in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie, both with BBC Symphony Orchestra. He also sang Carmina Burana at the Royal Festival Hall and appeared in concert at the London Handel Festival.

Further highlights include Gregory’s debut with Den Norske Opera as Don Ottavio in a new production of Don Giovanni ; Ouardo Ariodante for Les Arts Florissants and William Christie; title role in Rameau Dardanus for English Touring Opera; Vafrino Hipermestra and Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Oronte Alcina at the Teatro Real, Madrid and Festival de Aix-en-Provence; Florizel in the world premiere of The Winter’s Tale for English National Opera; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni and Peter Quint and Prologue The Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne on Tour; Shepherd L’Orfeo for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Ferrando Così fan tutte for Opéra de Limoges and English Touring Opera; Agenore Il Re Pastore at the Verbier Festival; title role Lucio Silla for the Classical Opera Company; and Grimoaldo Rodelinda at the London Handel Festival conducted by Laurence Cummings.

On the concert platform, Gregory has performed Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Edinburgh International Festival, Mozart Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St John Passion with the Oxford Bach Choir, Handel Messiah at Cadogan Hall, Wells Cathedral and with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Schubert Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Haydn St Nicholas Mass and Britten St Nicholas for the St Luke’s Music Society, Monteverdi Vespers with the Armonico Consort, and has performed a solo recital at the Lufthansa Baroque Festival.

A former Harewood Artist at English National Opera, his roles for the company included Nanki-poo The Mikado, Young Sailor Julietta, 1st Armed Man Die Zauberflöte, Borsa Rigoletto and Haemon Thebans. Gregory was also previously a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne, a student of the National Opera Studio and a member of the Verbier Festival Academy where he performed the roles of Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Roderigo Otello, alongside Anna Netrebko under the baton of Valery Gergiev, and also appeared as a soloist in Beethoven Choral Fantasy under Charles Dutoit.

2019-20 season / 612 words. Not to be altered without permission.