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| Tom Randle began early studies in conducting and composition but a scholarship to study voice soon meant a change in career direction. He made his début with the English National Opera as Tamino in The Magic Flute and has repeated the role with great success at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Hamburg, New Zealand and the Covent Garden Festival. Well known for his vivid and committed stage portrayals and a unique ability to embrace a wide variety of repertoire, Tom has emerged as one of the most exciting and versatile artists of his generation. @Engagements have included Tom Rakewell for Lausanne and Netherlands Opera, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte for Geneva and Brussels Opera, Don Ottavio at the Staatsoper Munich and in Los Angeles Music Centre Opera, Pelleas and Achilles in Tippett's King Priam, both for ENO, The Fairy Queen for the Aix-en-Provence, Gerald in Delibes' Lakmé in Australia and the title role in Hasse's Solimano at the Innsbruck Festival and Staatsoper Berlin, and the world première of Peter Schat's opera Symposium (based on the life of Tchaikovsky) for the Netherlands Opera.@ @Mr Randle made his Royal Covent Garden début as Essex in Phyllida Lloyd?s highly acclaimed production of Gloriana, which was later released as a feature film for BBC Television. Other appearances for the Royal Opera include Johnny Inkslinger in Britten's Paul Bunyan and the Fool in Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain.@Tom Randle sang the title role in Peter Brook's striking new interpretation of Pelleas et Mélisande opening at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris and returned to sing the role of Idomeneo in David McVicar's landmark production for Scottish Opera, widely hailed by the London press.@He won outstanding critical acclaim for his intense portrayal of Judas in the world première of Birtwistle's Last Supper under Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Berlin and last season scored a triumph singing Loge in a series of concert performances of Rhinegold at ENO. |
| Tom Randle is also very active in the field of contemporary music with several world premieres to his credit, many of which were written especially for him. He sang the role of Dionysus in John Buller's opera The Bacchae for English National Opera, and the world première of John Taverner's monumental oratorio The Apocalypse for the BBC Proms. In 1995 he sang the Requiem der Versöhnung (Requiem of Reconciliation), a joint collaboration of 14 composers; including Krzysztof Penderecki, Luciano Berio, Judith Weir and Alfred Schnittke; to mark the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II. He also created the role of Nunez in Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera The Country of the Blind written for the 50th Anniversary of the Aldeburgh Festival, and recently premiered and recorded Penderecki's newest oratorio Credo for the Oregon Bach Festival. |
| Mr Randle devotes equal time to an active concert career, singing with many of the world's leading orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, The London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, with such conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Helmuth Rilling, Yan-Pascal Tortellier, Ghennadi Rozhdestvensky, Ivan Fischer, Richard Hickox and Garcia Navarro. He appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis in Tippett's The Mask of Time, with the BBC Symphony under Sir Andrew Davis in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Prague Spring Festival and sang Haydn?s Die Schöpfung at the Proms under Claus-Peter Flor.@Amongst his recordings are the title role in Handel's Samson with Harry Christophers on Collins Classics, Vaughan Williams' A Cotswold Romance with the London Symphony Orchestra and Hickox for Chandos (both premiere recordings) and orchestral works by Luigi Nono on the EMI label. |
| The 2000/2001 season included performances in the role of Benedict for Welsh National Opera's Beatrice and Benedict, and a revival of The Rake's Progress at the Theatre Champs Elysees in Paris. He returned there with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert to perform the role of Bajazet in Händel's Tamerlano, before coming to Sadler's Wells in London and the Halle Festival in Germany. He sang Judas at last summer's Glyndebourne Festival and appeared in recital at the Buxton Festival.@Engagements in 2001/2002 include The Rake's Progress in Paris and Bordeaux, Lulu at the Netherlands Opera, a revival of The Fairy Queen at ENO, followed by the new stage production of Rhinegold in 2002/03.@ |
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