Bass-Baritone
Padraic Rowan
Beatrice & BenedictBiography
Irish bass-baritone Padraic Rowan’s 2024/25 season highlights include a return to Semperoper Dresden, concerts with Les Arts Florissants and the Irish Chamber Orchestra and roles including Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Henry Kissinger in John Adam’s Nixon in China at his home house of Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he has been a member of the ensemble since 2019. Previous roles for Irish National Opera include Speaker in Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Current and recent operatic engagements include Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di figaro (Staatsoper Berlin), Dottore Grenvil in Verdi’s La traviata (Semperoper Dresden), Momus in Rameau’s Platée (Theater an der Wien), Littore in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Salzburg Festival), Sagrestano in Puccini’s Tosca (Oper Leipzig), Jesus in Bach’s Matthäus-Passion (Theater Basel), Theseus in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nevill Holt Opera).
Concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah (Les Arts Florissants), Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium (Thomanerchor Leipzig), and Matthäus-Passion (Athens Symphony Orchestra). Under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, Padraic performed works from Handel as part of the 2015 Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
A Next Generation Bursary Award recipient from The Arts Council, successes include First Prize at Les Azuriales Opera International Singing Competition, France (2016) and winner of the Bernadette Greevy Bursary Award (2016).
A graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music with a Masters in Music Performance, Padraic was a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart Opera Studio (2016/17), a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival (2014) and a laureate of Le Jardin des Voix, the young artist programme of Les Arts Florissants.
Sept 2024