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Nicholas Lester baritone
Nicholas Lester studied at the Adelaide Conservatorium of Music and is now resident in London where he studies with Russell Smythe.
On the concert platform Nicholas Lester has performed the Messiah, Elijah, Bach Cantatas and Rameau Motets.
His roles have included Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (Adelaide Festival), Speaker The Magic Flute and Paris Roméo et Juliette (British Youth Opera), Pasha Selim The Seraglio and Kagler Wiener Blut (English Touring Opera), Leporello Don Giovanni Jerwood Scenes (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Antonio The Marriage of Figaro, and Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Co-Opera, Australia), Fiorello & Officer Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Flora’s servant La Traviata (Opera Holland Park).
Other roles include Marcello La bohème, Onegin Eugene Onegin, Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Pietro Simon Boccanegra, Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte, St Brioche The Merry Widow, The Notary Don Pasquale, 2nd Prisoner Fidelio, Miguel Betrothal in a Monastery, Colonel Calverly Patience, Pirate King The Pirates of Penzance, Sir Joseph Porter HMS Pinafore.
Recent engagements include performances of the Brahms Requiem in Beijing, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs the Fauré Requiem at St Martin in the Fields and the Messiah with Laurence Cummings and the Guilford Philharmonic Orchestra. He spent last summer at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he covered The Vicar in Albert Herring.
Forthcoming engagements include a concert with Welsh National Opera orchestra,Belcore (cover) at Welsh National Opera, Kuligin Katya Kabanova Opera Holland Park and The Foreman Jenufa for Glyndebourne Opera on Tour.
Nicholas Lester is grateful to have his studies at the National Opera Studio sponsored by Glyndebourne Festival Opera as the 2008 recipient of the Anne Woods/Johanna Peters Award and a scholarship from the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust. He also gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Chris Ball.
For more information please visit www.nicholaslester.com. |
