Mezzo-Soprano
Paula Murrihy
Beatrice & BenedictBiography
British baritone Paul Grant is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, in 2019/20 he became the second British singer to join the prestigious Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Roles performed through the Accademia include Grégorio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Ein Kappadozier in Strauss’s Salome, Wigmaker in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Dandini for their children’s performances of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Sebastian in Adès’s The Tempest and Conte in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
2023/24 season highlights include his return to La Scala for Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Accademia and the same title at Opera Holland Park. On the concert platform, performing as soloist in Vaughan Williams’s Da nobis Pacem for the Princess of Asturias Foundation.
Other performances include his house and role debut as Priest and Armed Man in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and concert performances of Duruflé’s Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, Handel’s Messiah under the baton of Sir James MacMillan and Brahms’s Ein deutches Requiem with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. In the 2018/19 season, Grant was an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera and appeared in performances of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Offenbach’s Fantasio, and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 as well as covering the role of Spark in Fantasio.
Prior performances include a gala concert at Victoria Hall, Geneva, recitals at the Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace, Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Leeds Lieder and Oxford Lieder Festivals.
Sept 2024