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Alan Ewing

Biography

Alan Ewing began his career in the world of renaissance and baroque music with concerts for Roger Norrington, Philip Pickett, Andrew Parrott, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, and William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. Other conductors he has worked with include Colin Davis, Steuart Bedford, Richard Hickox, Christian Curnyn, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Antonio Pappano. He has sung for The Royal Opera, London, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Netherlands Opera, Berlin State Opera, Zurich Opera House, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy, Lille, Nantes, Opera Colorado and at the Festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne, Aldeburgh, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and New Zealand in a wide repertoire. Recent engagements have included Cardinal in Szymanowski’s King Roger, Bosun in Britten’s Billy Budd, Frontier Guard in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, multiple roles in Shostakovich’s The Nose, Second Soldier in Strauss’s Salome, multiple roles in Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground for The Royal Opera, London; Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Hunding in Wagner’s Die Walküre at Grange Park Opera, The Nose for Komische Oper Berlin, Claudio in Handel’s Agrippina for Opera Collective Ireland, Nettuno in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses at Kilkenny Arts Festival, Lady Bracknell in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Barbican in London, the Rose Theater, New York, The Royal Opera, London, and Opéra national de Lorraine, and Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face for English National Opera and Arriaga Theatre, Bilbao. He makes his debut as Zuniga in Carmen for INO.

February 2022