Richard Wiegold has a rapidly developing international career as a bass singer in opera and concert, with performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Canadian Opera, the ABAO in Bilbao, the Prague State Opera, the Verbier Festival, the Estonian National Opera, with the Berlin Philharmonic and with companies and festivals in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Austria and China. Since 2008, Richard has sung under some of the world’s preeminent conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Richard Bonynge, John Mauceri and Jan Latham-Koenig and alongside some of the world’s greatest singers, including Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorgiu, Anna Netrebko, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Deborah Voigt, Elizabeth Connell, Emily Magee, Hanna Schwarz, Nelly Miricioiu, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Leo Nucci, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Thomas Hampson, James Morris, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja, Russell Braun, Sir John Tomlinson, Robert Lloyd and Siegfried Jerusalem. Richard has forthcoming débuts at Opera Colorado, the Teatro Real, Madrid, Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and the Opéra de Limoges.
Born in South Wales, Richard was a professional cellist for nearly a decade before returning to the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, to study voice 1999-2003. He now continues his studies with the distinguished Australian tenor Anthony Roden.
This site details Richard’s career, with information about his operatic roles, concert repertoire, stage and publicity pictures and useful weblinks. The Multimedia Page features a recording of Richard singing Hagen’s aria Hier sitz’ich zur Wacht from Götterdämmerung and Youtube links to performances of König Marke’s aria Tatest du’s wirklich from Tristan und Isolde, Gurenmanz’s monologue ‘Oh, wunden-wundervolle Heiligen Speer....Titurel, der Fromme Held’ from Parsifal and the Confutatis from the Verdi Requiem.
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Richard is also active as an art and portrait photographer.
Photographs
Top left - as Il Commendatore at the Canadian Opera, 2008, with Brett Polegato as Don Giovanni
Bottom left - as Arkel at the Canadian Opera 2008, with Isabel Bayrakdarian as Mélisande
Top Right - publicity photograph
