Bass-Baritone

David Ireland

William Tell

Biography

David Ireland studied at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio in London before becoming a Harewood Young Artist at English National Opera. Recent performances have included the title role in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Welsh National Opera), Colline in Puccini’s La bohème (Opéra d’Avignon and English National Opera), Quince in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra de Lille), Il gran sacerdote in Verdi’s Nabucco (Opéra national de Montpellier), Kuligin in Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová (Opéra national de Lorraine), plus Dr Bartolo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Third Priest in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus, Sacristan in Puccini’s Tosca and Speaker and Second Armed Man/Priest in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (all for English National Opera). He has also sung a critically-acclaimed Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera), Brander in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust (Three Choirs Festival), and made his Paris debut also as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Théâtre des Champs Elysées), plus his BBC Proms debut, as soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

May 2022