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Born in Manchester, Clive Bayley sings regularly with major opera companies in a diverse repertoire spanning Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Birtwistle, Richard Wagner and Ligeti.
Recent and forthcoming engagements include Swallow Peter Grimes at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and English National Opera, Trulove The Rake’s Progress and Doctor Carlos Conde in a new production of The Exterminating Angel at Opéra de Paris, Daland The Flying Dutchman at Opera North, Savjol Prokofjevič Dikój Kát'a Kabanová at Grange Park Opera, Somnus/Cadmus Semele at Glyndebourne, Prison Governor From the House of the Dead at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Swallow Peter Grimes and Spectre du roi défunt in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet at Opéra de Paris, and Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet.
Other operatic engagements include Tiresias Oedipe at Opéra de Paris; the title role in Battistelli’s Julius Caesar at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; the Doctor Wozzeck at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Swallow Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid and Oper Frankfurt; the title role in Ivan the Terrible, Capulet Romeo and Juliet and the Sacristan The Excursions of Mr Brouček at Grange Park Opera; Savjol Prokofjevič Dikój Kát'a Kabanová at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Judge and Commissaire in Philip Glass’s Orphée, and Priest/Badger The Cunning Little Vixen at English National Opera; Claggart Billy Budd at Gothenburg Opera and in the Richard Jones production at Oper Frankfurt; Fafner Siegfried with the Hallé Orchestra; Daland Der Fliegende Holländer at the Royal Danish Theatre; Publio La clemenza di Tito for Glyndebourne Festival; and First Nazarene Salome at the Edinburgh International Festival with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner.
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Alfano | Cyrano de Bergerac (Carbon) |
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Bartók | Bluebeard’s Castle (Bluebeard) |
Battistelli | Julius Caesar (Title Role) |
Beethoven | Fidelio (Rocco) |
Berg | Wozzeck (Doctor) |
Britten | Billy Budd (Claggart) • Gloriana (Sir Walter Raleigh) • Peter Grimes (Swallow) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus) |
Cavalli | La Calisto (Sylvano) |
Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Arkel) |
Enescu | OEdipe (Tiresias) |
Glass | Orphée (Judge and Commissaire) |
Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride (Thoas) |
Gounod | Roméo et Juliette (Capulet) |
Handel | Giulio Cesare (Achilla) • Semele (Somnus/Cadmus) |
Janáček | From the House of the Dead (Prison Governor) • The Cunning Little Vixen (Priest/Badger) • The Excursions of Mr Brouček (the Sacristan) • Kát’a Kabanová (Savjol Prokofjevič Dikój) |
Ligeti | Le Grand Macabre (Astradamors) |
Massenet | Don Quichotte (Title Role) |
Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin) • Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) • Don Giovanni (Leporello & Il Commendatore) • La clemenza di Tito (Publio) • Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) |
Puccini | Manon Lescaut (Geronte) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | Ivan the Terrible (Title Role) |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) |
Smetana | The Bartered Bride (Kecal) |
Strauss | Salome (First Nazarene) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin) |
Thomas | Hamlet (Spectre du roi défunt) |
Verdi | Aida (The King of Egypt & Ramfis) • Attila (title role) • Don Carlo (Il Grande Inquisitor & Philippe II) • Il trovatore (Ferrando) • Luisa Miller (Wurm) • Macbeth (Banquo) |
Wagner | Das Rheingold (Fasolt) • Die Fliegende Holländer (Daland) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Foltz) • Die Walküre (Hunding) • Parsifal (Titurel) • Siegfried (Fafner) • Tannhäuser (Biterolf) • Tristan und Isolde (König Marke) |
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Peter Grimes (Swallow)
English National OperaSep 2023 - Oct 2023Simon Bailey’s Balstrode, Clive Bayley’s Swallow and John Findon’s Bob Boles provide huge vocal power and are, in the latter cases, unforgettably repellent.
- Flora Willson, The Guardian
- 22 September 2023
bass Clive Bayley was outstanding as Swallow
- Stephen Pritchard, bachtrack
- 22 September 2023
Clive Bayley is authoritative as the lawyer Swallow
- Richard Fairman, Financial Times
- 25 September 2023
Clive Bayley, with impeccable diction
- Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph
- 22 September 2023