Rayfield Artists - Richard Edgar-Wilson

RICHARD EDGAR-WILSON

Tenor

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"In Richard Edgar-Wilson, Pimlico Opera has a Peter Quint of quintessential Englishness, trying and tasting every graphically set word in a lightly-sprung, crisply enunciated tenor." - The Times

Richard Edgar-Wilson is noted particularly as an Evangelist and as an interpreter of the music of Benjamin Britten. He has sung the Bach Passions in America, France and Italy, and performed Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in Norway and Greece, War Requiem in England, Northern Ireland and Italy, the Spring Symphony in Hungary, Turn of the Screw at Garsington and in Northern Ireland, and Death in Venice at ENO.

As a concert soloist, Richard Edgar-Wilson has collaborated with many of the best conductors working in Europe today including Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, Sir David Willcocks, Philippe Herreweghe and Richard Hickox, and with orchestras such as Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment. In recital he has performed regularly with Graham Johnson and the Songmakers' Almanac, and with Eugene Asti, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau. Opera appearances include Acis in Canada and London, Tamino in New Zealand, Don Ottavio in Lisbon, and recently Stephen McNeff's The Gentle Giant for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Recordings include San Giovanni Battista (GRAMOPHONE Baroque Vocal CD Award), Dioclesian with The English Concert, Messiah, Artaxerxes, Boyce Odes with the Hanover Band, Coates Songs with Sir Thomas Allen and the BBC Concert Orchestra, Die Schöne Müllerin, On Wenlock Edge, and two volumes of Swiss Romantic Lieder. Film and television work includes creating the role of Beauty in the world premiere of Gerald Barry's The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit for Channel Four and Radames in the Norwegian feature film Sufflosen (nominated for a "Best Foreign Film" Oscar).

Recent and future highlights include Britten's Death in Venice in Brussels, New York and at La Scala, Milan, Huw Watkin's new opera Temptation for Music Theatre Wales, Haydn's Creation with Sir Charles Mackerras and for Collegium Musicum Almae Matris, a staged Handelian extravaganza at the Bath Festival, Letters of a Love Betrayed for Music Theatre Wales (performances at venues including the Linbury Theatre and Oxford Playhouse), and Handel's Alceste at the English Bach Festival, Bach's St Matthew Passion in St Alban's Abbey, Elgar's The Kingdom in Exeter Cathedral, and Monteverdi's Vespers on tour in America with Apollo's Fire.

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