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Born Edinburgh.
Scottish baritone.
Ivor Klayman studied Law at Edinburgh University, and during that period also trained as a singer under John and Marie Tainsh. He was a long term member of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, singing solo roles from time to time. During an extensive singing career he built up a wide solo repertoire of oratorio and concert works. These range from Bach to Walton, and include Messiah, Creation, Damnation of Faust, Carmina Burana and the Requiems of Verdi and Fauré.
He sang principal baritone roles with the Edinburgh University Savoy Group, University Opera Club and for many years with the Edinburgh Opera Group, Opera Camerata and Edinburgh Grand Opera. His repertoire includes many of the major baritone roles including Mozart (Leporello), Rossini (William Tell), Donizetti (Dulcamara), Verdi (Nabucco, Macbeth, Germont), Borodin (Prince Igor), Massenet (Herod) and Vaughan Williams (Pilgrim The Pilgrim's Progress, Falstaff Sir John in Love).
Roles in Scotland
- Don Procopio an elderly miser
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Don Procopio 1978
- Tonio a player
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Pagliacci 1980
- Sir John Falstaff a portly knight
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Sir John in Love 1982
- Méphistophélès
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Damnation de Faust 1984
- Herode King Herod
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Hérodiade 1990
- Zurga leader of the fishermen
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Pearl Fishers 2001
- Don Marco a priest
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Saint of Bleecker Street 2006
- Nabucco Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon
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Nabucco 2007
- Tom a smuggler
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Prigione di Edimburgo 2011
- Dancaïre a smuggler
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Carmen 2012
- Giorgio Germont Alfredo's father
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Traviata 2013
Traviata 2019
- Leporello Giovanni's servant
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Don Giovanni 2013
- Dulcamara a quack doctor
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Elisir d'amore 2015
- Nourabad High Priest of Brahma
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Pearl Fishers 2018
- Pandolfe Lucette's father
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Cendrillon 2018
- Nilakantha a Brahmin priest
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Lakmé 2022
- Gianni Schicchi aged fifty-one
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Gianni Schicchi 2023