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Clive Bayley

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Clive Bayley sings regularly with the major opera companies in the UK and abroad in a diverse repertoire from Monteverdi to Ligeti.

Currently for ENO: Antonio The Marriage of Figaro 

Previously for ENO: Judge/Commissaire Orphée, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Parsi Rustomji Satyagraha, Leporello, Aye AkhnatenDaland Flying Dutchman, Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto Hoffmann, Ratcliffe Budd, Cadmus Semele, Ferrando Trovatore, Collatinus (also TV), Pistol, Hunding, Sparafucile, Arkel, Palémon Thaïs, Narbal Trojans, Sarastro, Raimondo Lucia, Bluebeard, Dikoy.

Career Highlights

Notable engagements elsewhere: Agravain Gawain (premiere), Biterolf Tannhäuser, Colline, Foltz Meistersinger, Carbon Cyrano de Bergerac, Thoas Iphigénie en Tauride, Sylvano Calisto, Hunding (ROH); Louis VII Euryanthe, Calchas Iphigénie en Aulide, Rocco (Glyndebourne); Doctor Wozzeck (the Met); Astramados Le Grand Macabre (San Francisco); Raleigh Gloriana (Hamburg Opera, ROH); Arkel, Ulisse, Titurel, Sylvano, Geronte Manon Lescaut, Achilla Giulio Cesare, Doctor (Bayerische Staatsoper); Fasolt (Strasbourg); Claggart, Dosifey, General Gambler (Frankfurt); Claggart (Gothenburg); Daland (Royal Danish Theatre); Commendatore (Bergen); Gesler Guillaume Tell, Doctor, Don Basilio Barbiere di Siviglia, Dikoy (WNO); title role Don Quichotte, Gremin, Filippo II, König Marke (Grange Park Opera); Sparafucile, Ebn Hakia Yolanta, Raleigh (also TV/CD), Ferrando, Wurm Luisa Miller, Figaro, Biterolf, Antinous Ritorno d’Ulisse, Hunding (Opera North).

Recordings: Hunding; Callisthènes Les Martyrs (OAE/Elder).

Forthcoming: Alvise Badoera La Gioconda (Grange Park Opera).

Last updated: 5th January 2024