Headshot of Alex Otterburn (2024)

Alex Otterburn

Baritone

Alex studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera and was a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.

Alex Otterburn’s future and recent engagements include JAMES STEWART Mary, Queen of Scots, NED KEENE Peter Grimes, HENRY CUFFE Gloriana, and ERNIE It’s a Wonderful Life for English National Opera.

COUNT DANILO The Merry Widow Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park, ZWEITER HANDWERKSBURSCHE in Deborah Warner’s production of Wozzeck Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, MORALES Carmen, CASCADA The Merry Widow Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and STARVELING A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opéra de Lausanne, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto.

Previous engagements have included NED KEENE Peter Grimes Teatro La Fenice and roles for English National Opera including PLUTO Orpheus in the Underworld, SQUIBBY in the world premiere of Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel and SCHAUNARD La bohème.

Other notable past projects were PETER in the world premiere of David Matthew’s Anna, DEMETRIUS A Midsummer Night’s Dream and ALLANTE Agrippina Grange Festival Opera, CHIP On the Town Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, EDDY in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek Edinburgh International Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Arts, HARLEQUIN Ariadne auf Naxos Opera Holland Park and Scottish Opera, CASCADA The Merry Widow Opera North and D’OBIGNY La Traviata Scottish Opera.

 


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Career Highlights

Concert highlights include Carmina Burana Oulu Symphony Orchestra under Rumon Gamba, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles accompanied by James Baillieu and Philip Moore Edinburgh International Festival, and a programme including Vaughan Williams and Gurney at the Ludlow English Song Festival with Iain Burnside.

He has sung Haydn’s The Seasons, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony.

He recorded The Call (Stone Records), the debut release from Barbara Hannigan’s Momentum initiative accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.

Last updated: 10th December 2024

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