Photo: Nick Marchant
Alastair Miles
Representation: General Management
Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading basses. Born in Harrow, he originally studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music before embarking on his highly successful vocal career. Having won the Decca Kathleen Ferrier Award at the age of 25, he has subsequently been in worldwide demand for principal bass roles over the last two decades. He has a stylistically wide repertoire, equally at home with Baroque music as he is with the full-blooded romanticism of Verdi.
Highlights in his career have included Sparafucile Rigoletto, Giorgio I Puritani and Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia for San Francisco Opera, Cardinal Brogni La Juive, Prefetto Linda di Chamounix, Zaccaria Nabucco and Philippe II Don Carlos for the Wiener Staatsoper, Lord Sydney Il Viaggio a Reims at La Scala, Milan, title role Handel Saul and Zoroastro Orlando for the Bayerische Staatsoper and title role Le Nozze di Figaro for Netherlands Opera.
In the UK Alastair Miles appears regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where his roles have included Colline La bohème, Rodolfo La Sonnambula, Elmiro in Rossini’s Otello, Banquo Macbeth and Dom Juam de Sylva in Donizetti’s Dom Sebastien. Further UK appearances have included title role in Boito’s Mefistofele and Silva Ernani for English National Opera, Mephistopheles Faust and Fiesco Simon Boccanegra for Welsh National Opera, Philip II Don Carlo for Opera North and Speaker Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne.
Alastair Miles is also a highly sought after concert artist and has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Giulini, Muti, Harnoncourt, Chung, Rattle, Runnicles, Masur, Gergiev, Gardiner, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi. Recent projects have included La Damnation de Faust, Dream of Gerontius and Messiah with Sir Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra, Schumann Faustszenen with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Beethoven 9th Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to his on-going relationship with Opera Rara recording neglected 19th and 20th century Italian and French opera, Alastair’s Miles discography currently stands at over seventy recordings including a solo recital disc of Great Operatic Arias for Chandos.
Engagements in 2009/2010 include La Juive and Narbal Les Troyens for Netherlands Opera, Elijah at the Royal Festival Hall with Masur and the LPO, Beethoven 9th Symphony with Wiener Symphoniker, Nabucco for Wiener Staatsoper and Creonte in Mayr’s Medea in Corinto for Bayerische Staatsoper. Subsequent engagements include Pogner Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival and Poliferno in Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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