Répétiteur

Richard McGrath

Beatrice & Benedict, Rigoletto

Biography

Richard studied at Maynooth University, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He was a trainee répétiteur at English National Opera and since then he has worked with companies including Irish National Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Wide Open Opera, Opera Theatre Company, and Lyric Opera Productions. Previous productions with these companies include Verdi’s La traviata (INO, ENO and Lyric Opera Productions), Puccini’s La bohème (INO, Opera Theatre Company, ENO and Lyric Opera), Gounod’s Faust (INO), Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (INO), Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The First Child and The Second Violinist (Landmark Productions/INO), Beethoven’s Fidelio, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Bizet’s Carmen (Lyric Opera Productions), Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (Lyric Opera Productions, Wide Open Opera and ENO), Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions/Wide Open Opera), Verdi’s Rigoletto (Opera Theatre Company), Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (Opera Theatre Company and NI Opera) and John Adams’s Nixon in China (Wide Open Opera). Richard is a répétiteur in the vocal department at the TU Dublin Conservatoire and a coach for the INO Studio.

Sept 2024