Welsh bass-baritone.
Neal Davies studied at King's College, London, and the Royal Academy of Music. He won the Lieder Prize in the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
Operatic work with most of the major British companies includes: Royal Opera (Cithéron Platée, Mozart's Figaro, Achilla Giulio Cesare and Alaska Wolf Joe Mahagonny); ENO (Zebul Jephtha, Publio La clemenza di Tito, Ariodates Xerxes, and Kolenatý The Makropulos Case); WNO (Guglielmo, Papageno, Dulcamara, Zebul, Don Alfonso, Leporello and Sharpless); Scottish Opera (Masetto, Leporello, King Ariodante); Garsington (Don Alfonso).
Appearances abroad include Marseille (Tiridate in Radamisto), Berlin Staatsoper (Pallante in Agrippina); Montreal (Leporello) and Chicago Lyric Opera (two G&S roles, Major-General Stanley and Ko-Ko). He has worked with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie as Saul in David et Jonathas (Aix-en-Provence) and Valens in Theodora at both Paris and Salzburg.
He has sung many times at the Edinburgh International Festival - staged performances include the Traveller (Curlew River 2005) and Saul (David et Jonathas 2012), but he has also made many concert appearances including several of rare operatic repertoire. Concert performances elsewhere in Scotland include, in September 2013, the Mozart Requiem with Donald Runnicles and the BBC SSO.
His concert appearances include work with the Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Cleveland, Philharmonia, London Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras. Notable conductors he has worked with include Mark Elder, Paul McCreesh, Ivor Bolton, Mariss Jansons, Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Frans Brüggen, Roger Norrington and Daniel Harding.
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