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Born Barnsley.
English tenor.
David Fieldsend studied in London at the Guildhall, gaining a scholarship in 1967 and leaving with the Gold Medal. He worked with Opera Rara and made his acclaimed Wexford Festival debut as Vanya in David Pountney's 1972 production of Kátya Kabanová, repeating the part at the following year's York Festival.
Scottish Opera
He joined Scottish Opera for five seasons, singing over twenty roles in a wide range of styles. During that period he also toured with the company to Germany, Portugal and Poland, appearing as Prologue in The Turn of the Screw and Toni in Elegy for Young Lovers.
Other
Fieldsend sang leading roles with Travelling Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Cambridge University Opera, Dorset Opera, Buxton Festival Opera and Opera North.
He first appeared at Covent Garden in 1983 in Der Rosenkavalier.
Fieldsend also had a successful career in operetta, singing major roles with the new D'Oyly Carte and Carl Rosa organizations, including Ralph Rackstraw, Nanki-Poo, Colonel Fairfax and Marco Palmieri.
Roles in Scotland
- Gaston Vicomte de Letorières, a man about town
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Traviata 1973
Traviata 1974
- Prologue
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Turn of the Screw 1973
Turn of the Screw 1975
Turn of the Screw 1977
- Don Curzio a lawyer
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Nozze di Figaro 1973
Nozze di Figaro 1977
- Official Registrar
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Madam Butterfly 1973
- Raoul de St Brioche
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Lustige Witwe 1973
Lustige Witwe 1974
Lustige Witwe 1976
Lustige Witwe 1977
- Shepherd
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Tristan und Isolde 1973
- Valletto page in Octavia's household
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Incoronazione di Poppea 1973
- Toni Reischmann the doctor's son
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Elegy for Young Lovers 1974
Elegy for Young Lovers 1975
- Monostatos a servant in the Temple
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Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1976
Zauberflöte 1977
- Jaquino Rocco's assistant
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Fidelio 1974
- Animal Seller
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Rosenkavalier 1974
- Major-domo to Faninal
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Rosenkavalier 1974
- Evandre leader of the people of Pherae
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Alceste 1974
- Arturo Lord Arthur Bucklaw
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Lucia di Lammermoor 1974
- Landlord
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Rosenkavalier 1974
- Scaramuccio a comedian
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Ariadne on Naxos 1975
Ariadne on Naxos 1976
Ariadne on Naxos 1977
- Count Almaviva a young nobleman
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Barbiere di Siviglia 1975
- Prince Guidon son of Dodon
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Golden Cockerel 1975
Golden Cockerel 1977
- Blind Eisenstein's lawyer
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Fledermaus 1975
Fledermaus 1976
- Augustin Moser a tailor
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Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1976
Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1977
Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1983
- Bardolfo Bardolph, a follower of Falstaff
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Falstaff 1976
Falstaff 1977
- George Colwan Dalcastle's elder son and the Sinner's brother
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Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1976
- Nanki-Poo the Mikado's son, disguised as a wandering Minstrel
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Mikado 1990
- Marco Palmieri a Venetian Gondolier
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Gondoliers 1991