AshleyRiches
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 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.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Ashley Riches performs as Don Iñigo Gomez in Ravel's L'heure espagnole
Credit: Grange Park Opera
PlayingAshley 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