English baritone.
Roland Wood studied in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music then in London at the National Opera Studio. In 2003 he was a semi-finalist at the Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
With Scottish Opera he was a Company Principal from 2002 to 2004. He toured with Essential Scottish Opera in 2001. Appearances with the company have included Mozart (Papageno); Verdi (Marullo, Luna, Falstaff); Bizet (Escamillo); J Strauss (Falke); Massenet (Albert Werther); Humperdinck (Peter); Puccini (Schaunard, Marcello, Scarpia, Sonora Fanciulla del West); Mascagni (Kyoto Iris); Strauss (Storch Imtermezzo); Debussy (Golaud); Rachmaninov (Baron Miserly Knight).
With English Touring Opera roles in Scotland include Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin. For an opening concert at the Edinburgh Festival he sang Maximilian & Captain (Bernstein's Candide).
With English National Opera he has sung - Mozart (Almavviva, Papageno); Verdi (Paolo Simon Boccanegra); Bizet (Zurga); Mascagni (Alfio); Puccini (Marcello, Scarpia); Vaughan Williams (Bunyan & Pilgrim); Adams (Kissinger Nixon in China). He created Oedipus in Thebans (John Anderson).
Other roles with British companies include the Royal Opera Verdi (Ford); Giordano (Roucher Andrea Chénier). Glyndebourne Festival (Nick Shadow); Opera North (Germont); Welsh National (Nottingham Roberto Devereux, Germont, Renato Un ballo in maschera); Grange Park (Renato, Scarpia).
He has sung with Canadian Opera (Rigoletto, Renato, Gianni Schicchi); Stuttgart (Rigoletto, Scarpia); St Louis (Macbeth); Michigan Opera Theatre (Rigoletto); Santa Fe (Germont); Amsterdam Reisopera (Germont, Renato, Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor).
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