Rayfield Artists - Andrew Radley

ANDREW RADLEY

Countertenor

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"...young British counter-tenor, Andrew Radley, stepped in as a last minute replacement...singing the role of Gandarte. He too acquitted himself extremely well both dramatically and musically..." - Opera Magazine review of Handel's Poro at the 2006 Göttingen Handel Festival.

British countertenor Andrew Radley specialises in the great opera roles written for the alto castrato voice by Handel and other leading composers of the 17th and 18th Centuries. He read Music at Cambridge before receiving scholarships to the postgraduate course and the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music. He participated in an Erasmus exchange to the Paris Conservatoire studying with Pierre Mervant. He continues to study with Noelle Barker, OBE.

Operatic roles include Gandarte in Handel's Poro for the Göttingen Handel Festival (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Konrad Junghänel), the title role in Handel's Flavio and Joachim in Handel's Susanna for the Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn; the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Spitalfields Festival; the title role in Handel's Tamerlano for the Cambridge Handel Opera Group; Halimacus (cover) in Keiser's Croesus for Opera North/Harry Bickett; First Wise Man and covering the roles of Daniel and Cyrus in a production of Handel's Belshazzar with René Jacobs at the Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck Festivals and at the Berlin Staatsoper; Nireno Giulio Cesare with the Freiburger Barockorchester under René Jacobs in Paris, Madrid, Valladolid and Castellón; and the title role in Handel's Orlando for the Opera Theatre Company Ireland.

Andrew's recent performances include Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight for British Youth Opera conducted by Nicholas Cleobury; Orindo in Handel's Admeto at the Göttingen Handel Festival and the Edinburgh Festival conducted by Nicholas McGegan; Didymus Theodora with Laurence Cummings at the opening concert of the 2009 London Handel Festival and in Oslo; Medoro Orlando with Opera Theatre Company Ireland and Christian Curnyn at the Buxton Festival; and Bach's St John Passion with Arsys Bourgogne conducted by Pierre Cao.

Performances this season include Handel's Israel in Egypt with Arsys Bourgogne conducted by Pierre Cao; Carmina Burana at Cadogan Hall; Messiah for the Bachchor Mainz; and Hamor Jephtha for the Royal Danish Opera in a production directed by Katie Mitchell.

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