AshleyRiches
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Representation
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 2023/24 season includes a return to the Royal Opera House as Roucher Andrea Chénier, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with David Afkham in Madrid, Verdi's Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, Rheinberg in Wallace's Lurline in Dublin with John Wilson, Handel's Messiah in concert at Glyndebourne, and Purcell's King Arthur with Paul McCreesh in Lyon and Lausanne.
His broad repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary and last season he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as Silvano La Calisto, Purcell's Odes and Handel's Dixit Dominus and Nisi Dominus with the English Concert and Harry Bicket, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with Daniel Harding and the Czech Philharmonic, Angelotti Tosca with Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic, Messiaen's St François d'Assise with Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the world premiere of Ian Fletcher's Jonah at Cadogan Hall London.
An accomplished recitalist, he released his debut solo recital recording, A Musical Zoo, in 2021.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Ashley Riches performs 'Cadd,i è ver' from Handel's Las Resurrezione (Lucifer)
Credit: The English Concert
PlayingAshley Riches performs as Nick Shadow in Stravinsky's A Journey through The Rake's
Credit: Blackheath Halls Opera
PlayingAshley Riches performs 'The Trumpet Shall Sound' from Handel's Messiah
Credit: Academy of Ancient Music and the Barbican Centre, London
PlayingAshley Riches performs 'Die Schöne Müllerin" by Schubert
Credit: Oxford Lieder Festival
PlayingAshley Riches performs at the Leeds Lieder Festival 2022
Credit: Leeds Lieder Festival
Playing
Audio
- Tippett - The Midsummer MarriageCredit: London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Midsummer Marriage
Selected Repertoire
Berlioz | Béatrice et Bénédict (Claudio) • Le Damnation de Faust (Brander) • Les Troyens (Panthée) |
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Bizet | Carmen (Escamillo) |
Britten | The Rape of Lucretia (Tarquinius) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius) • Albert Herring (Sid) • Owen Wingrave (Title Role) |
Cavalli | La Calisto (Silvano) |
Handel | Acis and Galataea (Polyphemus) • Aggripina (Claudio) • Guilio Cesare (Achillia) |
Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen (Harašta) |
Massanet | Manon (Lescaut) |
Mozart | Don Giovanni (Title Role) • Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Count Almaviva) • Così fan Tutte (Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) • Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) |
Puccini | La bohème (Marcello, Schaunard) • Turandot (Mandarin) • Tosca (Angelotti) |
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas) • King Arthur • The Fairy Queen |
Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos (Harlequin) |
Stravinsky | The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow, Keeper of the Mad House) • Oedipus Rex (Creon) |
Sullivan | The Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King) • The Mikado (KoKo) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Title Role) • Iolanta (Ibn-Hakia) |
Tippet | The Midsummer Marriage (King Fisher) |
Verdi | La Traviata (Douphol) |
Wallace | Lurline (Rhineburg) |
News
Press
Verdi Requiem
Symphony Hall, BirminghamSep 2023Ashley Riches’ rich bass-baritone completes the quartet.
- Daniel Hawkins, The Reviews Hub
- 15 September 2023
Discography
- Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
- George Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione
- A Musical Zoo
- Antonio Salieri: Armida
- Henry Purcell: King Arthur
- Leonard Bernstein: Wonderful Town
- The Discovery Recital
- Sir Arthur Sullivan: Songs
- JS Bach: St. John Passion
- JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion
- Joseph Haydn: Paukenmesse and Nelson Mass
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Sonnets
- JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion