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 Rheims at La Scala, Milan, title role Handel Saul and Zoroastro Orlando for the Bayerische Staatsoper, title role Le Nozze di Figaro and La Juive 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. Recent engagements include Narbal Les Troyens for Netherlands Opera, Creonte in Mayr’s Medea in Corinto for Bayerische Staatsoper, Elijah at the Royal Festival Hall with Masur and the LPO, Beethoven 9th Symphony with Wiener Symphoniker, Nabucco for Wiener Staatsoper, Commendatore Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne Festival, Poliferno in Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Osmin Die Entführung aus dem Serail on tour with the OAE (Labadie), Duke Alfonso Lucrezia Borgia for English National Opera and Pogner Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival.
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, Beethoven 9th Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Sarastro Die Zauberflöte with Daniel Harding at the Lucerne Festival.
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.
This season includes Claudio Agrippina for Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille with Emmanuelle Haim, Daland Der Fliegende Holländer for Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liege, St Matthew Passion with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Philip II Don Carlo for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bretran Robert le Diable and Zurga Les Pêcheurs de Perles for the Salerno Festival and Medée at the Staatsoper in Munich. Future engagements include Pogner for the Netherlands Opera, Timur Turandot at the Staatsoper in Munich, Mozart’s Requiem in Dresden with Christian Thielemann, Le Comte de Grieux Manon at Covent Garden, Leporello Don Giovanni at the Vlaamse Oper and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
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Email: Ruth Connelly
