Season highlights
Golaud Pélleas et Mélisande
Ruhrtriennale
Cecil Gloriana
Teatro Real
Stolzius Die Soldaten
Teatro Real
Golaud Pélleas et Mélisande
Opera Vlaanderen
Golaud Pélleas et Mélisande
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Concert highlights
Escamillo Carmen
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Pintscher Solomon’s Garden
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The Martyrdom of St Magnus
St Magnus Festival, Orkney; Edinburgh; Inverness
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King
Orquesta de Cadaqués, Madrid; London Sinfonietta / Queen Elizabeth Hall
Michael Finnissy Maldon
London Sinfonietta / Queen Elizabeth Hall
Martin Suckling Candlebird
London Sinfonietta / Nicholas Collon (world premiere)
Belshazzar’s Feast, Berlioz Symphony No.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Britten Canticles
Gran Teatre del Liceu; with Roger Vignoles / Southbank Centre / Wigmore Hall
Orff Carmina Burana
Royal Festival Hall; Birmingham Symphony Hall; RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Usher Hall
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Orquesta de Cadaqués / Sir Neville Marriner
Britten Cantata Misericodium
BBC Symphony Orchestra / BBC Proms
Opera highlights
Title role Wozzeck
Salzburg; English National Opera (new productions)
Papageno Die Zauberflöte
Seattle Opera; Opera Zuid
Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream
La Monnaie
Escamillo Carmen
Royal Albert Hall
Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia
New York City Opera
Silvio I Pagliacci
Welsh National Opera
Various Death in Venice
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Marcello La bohème
Opera Zuid
Sid Albert Herring
Salzburger Landestheater; Opéra Comique; Opéra de Rouen
Ned Keene Peter Grimes
Vlaamse Opera; Opera Oviedo; English National Opera; BBC Proms
Title role Eugene Onegin
Longborough Festival Opera
Tadeusz The Passenger; Papageno; Escamillo; Bormenthal A Dog’s Heart; Count Marriage of Figaro; Rodolfo in Leoncavallo’s La bohème; Junius The Rape of Lucretia
English National Opera
Concert repertoire
Adams
The Wound Dresser
Bach
Passions
Berlioz
Symphony No.3 ‘Romeo et Juliette’
Brahms
Requiem
Britten
War Requiem
Canticles
Carter
On Conversing with Paradise
Copland
American Songs I & II with orchestra
Fauré
Requiem
Glanert/Brahms
Four Serious Songs
Handel
Messiah
Alexander’s Feast
Haydn
Masses and The Seasons
Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Rückert Lieder
Kindertotenlieder
Maxwell-Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Mozart
Requiem and Masses
Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death
Orff
Carmina Burana
Primosch, James
Songs for Adam
Schoeck, Othmar
Lebendig Begraben, Op.40
Vaughan Williams
Sea Symphony
Songs of Travel
Five Mystical Songs
Xenakis
Ais
La Déesse Athéna
Opera repertoire
Adams
Rambo The Death of Klinghoffer
Jack Hubbard Dr Atomic
Berg
Title role Wozzeck
Berlioz
Mercury, Greek Captain & Chorèbe Les Troyens
Mercutio & Paris Romeo et Juliette
Birtwistle
Punch Punch & Judy
Bizet
Escamillo Carmen
Morales Carmen
Zuniga Pearl Fishers
Britten
Ned Keane Peter Grimes
Title role Billy Budd
Sid Albert Herring
English Clerk Death in Venice
The Traveller Death in Venice
Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Junius & Tarquinius Rape of Lucretia
Debussy
Title role Pelleas et Melisande*
Donizetti
Belcore L’elisir d’amore
Malatesta Don Pasquale
Dove
Mike Collins Man on the Moon
Steward Flight
Gounod
Valentin Faust
Korngold
Fritz Die tote Stadt
Leoncavallo
Rodolfo La Boheme
Silvio Pagliacci
Macmillan
Evan The Sacrifice
Parthonogenesis
Maxwell Davies
The Tempter The Martyrdom of St Magnus
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Mozart
Papageno Die Zauberflote
Count Le Nozze di Figaro
Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro
Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte
Title role Don Giovanni*
Puccini
Marcello La Boheme
Schaunard La Boheme
Frank Edgar
Rossini
Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Tchaikovsky
Title role Eugene Onegin
Yletski Queen of Spades
*in preparation
Opera Today, October 2015Like Ablinger-Sperrhacke, and Woldt, Melrose is one of the great character singers in their voice types... Melrose has an instinctive understanding of Wozzeck’s almost inability to conform to social niceties. His grittiness created a Wozzeck that worked well with Luisi’s approach to the opera
Guardian, October 2015Musically, it's astonishing. Melrose, giving the performance of a lifetime, charts Wozzeck's disintegration with unflinching veracity and an extraordinary expressive range that veers from lyrical intensity to snarl or eerie falsetto.
Die Welt, September 2015Leigh Melrose was outstanding as Alberich