Adrian Thompson, Esq

Career: tenor; opera performances incl: title role Peter Grimes, Skuratov in The House Of The Dead (Oper Frankfurt), Canio I Pagliacci (Oper Frankfurt), Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte (ROH), Arv in Nielson's Maskarade (ROH), Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier (ROH), Florestan in Fidelio (WNO), Albert Gregor in The Makropoulos Case (Opera Zuid), Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer (Opera Zuid), Laca in Jenufa (Opera Zuid), the title role Janacek's The Diary of One who Disappeared (Brussels and Aix-en-Provence Festivals), Zivny in Janacek's Osud (Garsington Opera), Midas in Die Liebe Der Danae (Garsington Opera), Grigory in Boris Godunov (Brighton Festival), Bacchus in Ariadne Auf Naxos (Barbican); other performances incl: Lutoslawski's Paroles Tisées (London Sinfonietta), Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (Hallé Orch), Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (Czech Philharmonic Orch); repertoire incl: Beethoven 9th Symphony, Verdi Requiem and Mahler Das Lied von der Erde, Bach St John and St Matthew Passions; performed with: Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ENO, Scottish Opera, Opera du Rhin, Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, Oper de Stadt Köln, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, New Israeli Opera, Netherlands Opera, LSO, London Philharmonic, The Philharmonia, London Mozart Players, Eng Chamber Orch, BBC Symphony Orch, Northern Sinfonia, RTE Symphonia Orch