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Bass-Baritone & Baritone
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Megan Steller

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Ivo Ivanov

Ivo Ivanov

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt



About Ashley

Bass-baritone Ashley Riches studied at King's College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

An extremely versatile artist, his 2024/25 season includes Handel's Messiah at the BBC Proms with John Butt and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Rossini's Stabat Mater with Nil Venditti and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ with the NFW Wroclaw Philharmonic and Paul McCreesh, Bach's St John Passion with The English Concert and Harry Bicket, and Puccini's La Rondine with the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano.

In 2023/24 he returned to the Royal Opera House as Roucher Andrea Chénier, sang Rheinberg in Wallace's Lurline with the National Symphony Orchestra Dublin and Péter Halász, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with David Afkham in Madrid, Verdi's Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, and Handel's Messiah in concert at Glyndebourne and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Bernard Labadie, and Purcell's King Arthur with Paul McCreesh in Lyon and Lausanne.

An accomplished recitalist, he released his debut solo recital recording, A Musical Zoo, in 2021.

Ashley is based in London

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt



Season Highlights

Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Hodinott Hall, Cardiff
Rossini Stabat Mater Nil Venditti (conductor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
London, Amsterdam, Sion
Purcell Fairy Queen Paul McCreesh (conductor) Gabrieli Consort
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Barbican, London
Puccini La Rondine (Rambaldo) Antonio Pappano (conductor) London Symphony Orchestra

Selected Repertoire

BerliozBéatrice et Bénédict (Claudio)   •   Le Damnation de Faust (Brander)   •   Les Troyens (Panthée)
BizetCarmen (Escamillo)
BrittenThe Rape of Lucretia (Tarquinius)   •   A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius)   •   Albert Herring (Sid)   •   Owen Wingrave (Title Role)
Cavalli La Calisto (Silvano)
HandelAcis and Galataea (Polyphemus)   •   Aggripina (Claudio)   •   Guilio Cesare (Achillia)
JanáčekThe Cunning Little Vixen (Harašta)
MassanetManon (Lescaut)
MozartDon Giovanni (Title Role)   •   Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Count Almaviva)   •   Così fan Tutte (Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Papageno)
PucciniLa bohème (Marcello, Schaunard)   •   Turandot (Mandarin)   •   Tosca (Angelotti)
PurcellDido and Aeneas (Aeneas)   •   King Arthur   •   The Fairy Queen
StraussAriadne auf Naxos (Harlequin)
StravinskyThe Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow, Keeper of the Mad House)   •   Oedipus Rex (Creon)
SullivanThe Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King)   •   The Mikado (KoKo)
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (Title Role)   •   Iolanta (Ibn-Hakia)
TippetThe Midsummer Marriage (King Fisher)
VerdiLa Traviata (Douphol)
WallaceLurline (Rhineburg)