Season highlights
Duke of Cornwall King Lear
Salzburg Festival
Monostatos The Magic Flute
Canadian Opera Company
Thomas Scott Louis Riel
Canadian Opera Company and National Arts Centre Canada
Opera repertoire
Aribert Reimann
Duke of Cornwall King Lear
Britten
Peter Quint Turn of the Screw
Title role & Bob Boles Peter Grimes
Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia
Johnny Inkslinger Paul Bunyan
Chabrier
Le Roi Ouf L’étoile
Handel
Acis Acis and Galatea
Jupiter Semele
Grimoaldo Rodelinda
Hyllus Hercules
Heggie
Father Grenville Dead Man Walking
Mozart
Monostatos Die Zauberflöte
Ottavio Don Giovanni
Tito La clemenza di Tito
Title role Idomeneo
Belfiore La finta giardiniera
Puccini
Goro Madama Butterfly
Pong Turandot
Spoletta Tosca
Tinca Il tabarro
Purcell
The Fairy Queen
The Tempest
Rossini
Rodolphe Guillaume Tell
Strauss
Narraboth & Herod Salome
Stravinsky
Title role Oedipus Rex
Verdi
Cassio Otello
Dr Caius Falstaff
Gastone La traviata
Wagner
Mime Siegfried
Concert repertoire
Bach
Magnificat
Mass in B minor
St John Passion
St Matthew Passion
Christmas Oratorio
Brahms
Liebeslieder Walzer
Neue Liebeslieder Walzer
Beethoven
Adelaide
An die ferne Geliebte
Symphony No. 9
Mass in C
Britten
War Requiem
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Canticles I to IV
Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente
Charpentier
Messe de Minuit pour Noël
Dvořák
Stabat Mater
Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
Gounod
St Cecila’s Mass
Handel
Acis and Galatea
Judas Maccabaeus
Israel in Egypt
Messiah
Messiah (arr. Mozart)
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Hatzis
Everlasting Light
Kyrie
Haydn
The Creation
The Seasons
Mass in C minor
Nelson Mass
Mahler / Schönberg
Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelsson
Elijah
Lobgesang
Mozart
Requiem
Coronation Mass
Mass in C minor
Regina Caeli
Pärt
Passio
Quilter
Seven Elizabethan Lyrics
Respighi
Lauda per la natività del Signore
Rossini
Stabat Mater
Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin
Mass in A flat
Mass in B flat
Mass in E flat
Schumann
Dichterliebe
Stravinsky
Oedipus Rex
Cantata
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge
Serenade to Music
Verdi
Requiem
Opera TodayMichael Colvin’s rich lyrical tenor evoked the sinister cruelty of Rodolphe, Gelser’s commander.
GuardianIt all sounds terrific… Michael Colvin’s Herod is more lyrical than many and thus nastier than most.
Seen and Heard InternationalI thought Michael Colvin was without doubt the best Bob Boles I have heard and seen.