Among the roles he sang with the company included Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Papageno in Die Zauberflte, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Belcore in Lelisir damore, and Posa in Don Carlo., He also sang the role of Ford in Falstaff, Wolfram von Eschinbachin Tannhuser, Eugene Onegin, Pellas, Balstrode in Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Sweeney Todd, Prosdocimo n Il turco in Italia, and created the role of Roc in The Exterminating Angel.. The WNO proved to be a training ground in developing his skills in characterisation - offering him the opportunity to try his hand at many baritone parts, many of which would become some of his most acclaimed roles such as Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mozart's Count Almaviva, Guglielmo, Papageno, Strauss II's Falke, Verdi's Posa and Germont as well as Britten's Billy Budd. })(); Thomas Alleyne (c.1460 - 1523) - Genealogy var _gaq = _gaq || []; from Durham University and University of Birmingham, Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music while also being Prince Consort Professor of Opera for the latter. He also worked as an entertainment reporter where he covered the New York and Tribeca Film Festivals and interviewed many celebrities such as Antonio Banderas, Edgar Ramirez and Benedict Cumberbatch. Britain's leading baritone, Thomas Allen, grew up in a coal-mining town and started out singing around the piano. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [12], In 2015, he sang the rle of Baron Zeta in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Franz Lehr's operetta The Merry Widow, which he reprised at the Met in 2017. Not one to limit himself to a certain genre, Sir Thomas has recorded several recordings of lieder (Brahms, Wolf, Schumann, Schubert), choral works (such as Faur's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana), Victorian and Edwardian songs, musicals and operetta, as well as songs from his native north of England. His poem A Wife (also referred to as The Wife), . Allen had initially intended to pursue a career in medicine but was encouraged to follow his love for music and an eighteen-year-old Allen was recommended to see Arthur Hutchings, then Professor of Music at Durham University who then arranged an interview at the Royal College of Music. He has also recorded oratorio and choral works such as Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel's Saul, and Orff's Carmina Burana. He was appointed to the committee for the corporations bill and to the revived committee for the execution of the remaining regicides on 10 Jan. 1662. Allen also appears in recital in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, in Australia and America, with his recital repertoire no less extensive than his operatic one; ranging from German Lieder, French songs by Duparc, and English song cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams to musical numbers by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. It was during his time at school that his singing voice was first observed by the then Physics master, Denis Weatherley, himself a well-known baritone in the county and especially renowned for Northumberland songs.
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