Tenor
Gavan Ring
The Flying DutchmanBiography
Gavan read Education and Music at St Patrick’s College, Dublin and after post-graduate studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, trained at the National Opera Studio in London.
Recent and future plans include Jacquino Fidelio for Glyndebourne on Tour; Gastone La Traviata Opera North; a return to La Monnaie in Brussels to sing Cecil Bastarda in a major new production based on the Donizetti trilogy; and a return to the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival Opera for his first appearance as a tenor.
For Opera North in the 2019/20 season, Gavan’s first season after he transitioned from baritone to tenor, he sang in their Viennese New Year concerts as well as covering the roles of Prologue and Quint The Turn of the Screw and Sam Kaplan Street Scene.
Other recent tenor appearances in his native Ireland have included White King in Barry Alice’s Adventures Under Ground for Irish National Opera; Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance at Cork Opera House as well as performances for them of La bohème, Così fan tutte and La traviata; Juan in Massenet Don Quichotte and Azim in Stanford The Veiled Prophet for Wexford Festival Opera; and a number of appearances on RTÉ Radio singing repertoire including arias from Eugene Onegin (Lensky), La Traviata (Alfredo), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte) and Macbeth (Macduff).
Gavan is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Michael and Giancarla Alen-Buckley, Skellig Six 18 Distillery and Opera North patron Howard Gatiss.
November 2021