Season Highlights
Title role Der Zwerg
Deutsche Oper Berlin
War Requiem
English National Opera
Grigory Otrepiev Boris Godunov
Royal Opera House
Froh Das Rheingold
Teatro Real
Count Vaudemont Iolanta
Opera Holland Park
Concert repertoire
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Britten
War Requiem
Folk Songs
Haydn
Nelson Mass
Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
Mahler
Das klagende Lied
Rossini
Petite messe solenelle
Verdi
Requiem
Opera repertoire
Beethoven
Florestan Fidelio*
Bizet
Don Jose Carmen
Britten
Essex Gloriana
Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia
Dvořák
Prince Rusalka
Janeček
Laca Jenufa
Boris Káťa Kabanová*
Massenet
Title role Werther
Mozart
Tamino Die Zauberflöte
Mussorgsky
Grigoriy Boris Godunov
Puccini
Pinkerton Madama Butterfly
Luigi Il tabarro
Rodolfo La bohème
Cavardosssi Tosca
Dick Johnson La fanciulla del West *
R. Strauss
Bachus Ariadne auf Naxos*
Narraboth Salome
Verdi
Macduff Macbeth
Gabriele Adorno Simon Boccanegra*
Wagner
Froh Das Rheingold
Erik Der fliegende Holländer
Walther von Stolzing Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
* in preparation
Guardian, October 2017He sings with uncompromising conviction and blazing intensity. He’s a superb actor, too...It’s an exceptional, career-making achievement
GuardianDavid Butt Philip, a former Royal Opera Young Artist making his debut at ENO – a company whose English-language policy is crying out for singers like him to vindicate it. It’s an impressively complete performance: his Rodolfo is likable and unassuming on stage, but when he sings he unleashes a warm, easy-sounding tenor voice with plenty of heft and ping at the top. His first aria hymns Mimi’s little frozen hands in impeccable Italianate style.
Opera Magazine…a cast dominated by David Butt Philip’s sensationally well sung Don José… the scale of his singing, his subtlety – a wonderful messa di voce on the climactic note of the Flower Song – and his transition from the diffident, even shy brigadier of Act 1 to homicidal psychopath in Act 4 suggested a great future in the role… There’s a goldmine of promise here.