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Stephen Wallace
Stephen Wallace studied with Neil Howlett at the Royal Northern College of Music, and subsequently worked with Anthony Rolfe Johnson at the Britten Pears School, Snape Maltings. He now studies with Robert Dean.
Opera appearances include Semele for the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, English National Opera, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival and at Théâtre Champs-Elysées in Paris, Speranza Orfeo under René Jacobs for La Monnaie in Brussels, London, Dresden and Aix-en-Provence, Voice of Apollo Death in Venice for Opera Zuid, title role Radamisto at the Halle Festival, Didymus Theodora with Emmanuelle Haim for Glyndebourne on Tour and also with Jane Glover for Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg, Narciso Agrippina for Chicago Opera Theater and ENO, the world première of Birtwistle’s The Last Supper with Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and subsequently for Glyndebourne Festival, L’Umana fragilita and Anfinomus Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria in Opera North’s revival and for the Buxton Festival, Queen of the Fairies Iolanthe for Grange Park Opera, title role Orfeo ed Euridice for English Touring Opera, Orlofsky Die Fledermaus for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and Dublin Lyric Opera, Ottone L’incoronazione di Poppea in Strasbourg, Flavio with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Group, Nerone L’incoronazione di Poppea for Opera Theatre Company, Orfeo for the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, Endymion La Calisto at the Iford Festival and Truth in Gerald Barry’s Triumph of Beauty & Deceit for Los Angeles Philharmonic with Thomas Adès. Stephen subsequently sung the role of Pleasure in Triumph of Beauty & Deceit for the Ives Ensemble at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
Stephen is also a committed concert artist and his diverse repertoire includes Agostino in Hasse’s La Conversione di Sant’Agostino for Il Coro d’Orfeo in Milan (due for CD release in 2008), Purcell Odes with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, concert performances of Theodora with Emmanuelle Haim and Le Concert d’Astrée, Bach’s Magnificat with the Israel Camerata, Messiah and Saul with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tonu Kaljuste, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus and Handel’s Nisi Dominus with the Israel Camerata, Bach’s St John Passion and B Minor Mass, television and CD recordings of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater for the Rambert Dance Company and recordings of Thomas Arne’s Alfred for the BBC Radio 3 series Britannia at the Opera, Dido and Aeneas for Harmonia Mundi, Armindo Partenope with Christian Curnyn for Chandos, an Arvo Pärt disc for Black Box, Elisa Is The Fayrest Quene also for Chandos and George Lloyd’s Requiem for Albany Records.
Engagements in 2007/2008 include Halimacus in the new production of Rheinard Keiser’s Croesus for Opera North, Messiah on tour in Japan with Bach Collegium Japan, Ottone L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen, St John Passion at Bath Abbey and his Carnegie Hall, New York debut as Pleasure Triumph of Beauty & Deceit. Subsequent engagements include a solo recital at the December Nights (Pushkin Museum) in Moscow, Athamas Semele at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris and Medoro Orlando for Opéra de Lille.
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