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Roderick
Earle (Baritone)
Roderick
Earle was born in Winchester and graduated from Cambridge, where he read
Music and was a Choral Scholar in the St. John's College Choir.
He then won a Foundation Scholarship to the
Royal College of Music, joining the Opera School, and later
studied with Otakar Kraus. He was awarded a Greater London Arts
Association Musician of the Year Award, and in 1980, after two years
with English National Opera, made his debut with the Royal Opera,
Covent Garden as Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro. He then joined the
Royal Opera Company and went on to sing more than sixty roles with
the company, including Schaunard, Abimelech, Orestes,
Monterone, the Bonze, Brander, Harasta
Cunning Little Vixen, Kothner, the Philosopher Cherubin, King
Fisher Midsummer Marriage and Alberich Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
He
has appeared with all the major British companies, toured to Japan,
South Korea, Greece and Finland with the Royal Opera
and appeared in the Festivals at Edinburgh, Buxton, Israel,
Athens and Flanders. He has sung Kothner, Rangoni and
Abimelech at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Altair
in the British premiere of Strauss’s Die ägyptische Helena and Ford
at Garsington. Other appearances include A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Turandot (Rome Opera), Der
Fliegende Hollander (Opera
de Massy), Amonasro, Alfio and Tonio (Raymond
Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall), Germont and Scarpia
(Holland Park Opera), Ford and the Count Figaro (New
Zealand Opera), Rigoletto (Opera Zuid), Monterone (ENO) and most
recently the Police Inspector in Shostakovitch’s Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk at Covent Garden,
the Devil in Tchaikovsky’s Cherevichki at
Garsington, the Forester in the Cunning Little Vixen for English
Touring Opera and Papin in Babette's Feast (John Browne) for the Royal
Opera at the Linbury Theatre.
He
sang Melchior Amahl and the Night Visitors directed by Menotti at
Saddler’s Wells, and appeared in videos of La Fanciulla del West,
Manon Lescaut, Andrea Chenier, Der Rosenkavalier (Solti), Carmen
(Mehta), Salome (Downes), Otello and Traviata (Solti) and
on the sound track of the film Meeting Venus. Recordings include Ferneyhough's
Transit, the Gramaphone award winning Rossini's Stabat Mater with
Richard Hickox and the Double Grammy award winning recording of Les
Troyens with Sir Colin Davis.
Roderick
Earle has a wide concert career and has appeared with the Munich
Philharmonic, L'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Polish
Radio, RAI Milano, Ensemble Modern, Royal Scottish
National, Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony,
Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony,
London Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta and BBC
Symphony Orchestras, with such conductors as James Levine, Michel
Plasson, Anthony Witt, Gary Bertini, Peter Eotvos, Neeme Jarvi, Charles
Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Kent Nagano and Sir Colin Davis.
Recent concerts include Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Sir Colin Davis, L’Enfance du Christ with the Leeds Festival
Chorus and Ondino in La Campana Sommersa Respighi with Friedemann Layer
and the Opera de Montpellier (also recorded)
Future
plans include Leon Klinghoffer in The Death of Klinghoffer in Wuppertal,
Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Buxton Festival and a revival
of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Covent Garden.
Repertoire
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Beethoven
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Fidelio
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Pizzaro
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Bellini
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I Puritani
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Riccardo
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Berg
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Lulu
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Dr Sch-n/ Jack
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Berlioz
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Damnation de Faust
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Méphistophélès/ Brander
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Bizet
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Carmen
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Escamillo/
Zuniga
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Debussy
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Pelléas et Mélisande
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Golau
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Donizetti
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L'Elisir d'Amore
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Dulcamara
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Giordano
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Andrea
Chénier
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Mathieu
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Janácek
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The Cunning Little Vixen
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Harasta
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Janácek
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Jenufa
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Foreman
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Leoncavello
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Pagliacci
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Tonio
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Mascagni
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Cavalleria
Rusticana
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Alfio
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Massenet
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Chérubin
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Philospher
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Menotti
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Melchior
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Mozart
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Le
Nozze di Figaro
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Conte
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Mozart
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Die Zauberflöte
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Sprecher/ Papageno
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Mussorgsky
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Boris Godunov
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Rangoni
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Puccini
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La
Bohème
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Schaunard
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Puccini
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La
Fanciulla del West
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Jack Rance
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Puccini
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Madama Butterfly
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Sharpless
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Puccini
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Turandot
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Mandarin
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Rameau
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Castor et Pollux
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Jupiter
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Saint Saens
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Samson et Dalila
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High Priest/Abimélech
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Strauss (R)
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Die Agiptysche Helena
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Altair
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Strauss (R)
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Ariadne auf Naxos
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Music Master
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Strauss (R)
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Capriccio
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Major-domo
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Strauss (R)
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Elektra
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Orestes
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Strauss (R)
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Der Rosenkavalier
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Polizeikommissar
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Strauss (R)
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Salome
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Jokanaan
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Stravinsky
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Oedipus
Rex
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Creon
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Stravinsky
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The Rake's Progress
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Nick Shadow
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Tippett
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Midsummer Marriage
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King Fisher
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Verdi
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Aida
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Amonasro
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Verdi
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Rigoletto
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Rigoletto
/ Monterone
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Verdi
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Un
Ballo in Maschera
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Renato
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Verdi
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Falstaff
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Ford
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Verdi
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
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Verdi
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La
Traviata
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Germont
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Wagner
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Lohengrin
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Heerrufer
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Wagner
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Kothner
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Wagner
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Parsifal
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Klingsor
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Wagner
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Rheingold
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Alberich/ Donner
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Wagner
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Siegfried
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Alberich
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Wagner
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Götterdämmerung
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Alberich
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Weber
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Der Freischütz
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Kaspar
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