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Jonathan Lemalu 

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Previously for ENO: Speaker/Sarastro The Magic Flute, Fifth Jew SalomeSnug A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; Colline La Boheme; Figaro The Marriage of FigaroDon Basilio The Barber of Seville; Sergeant of Police Pirates of Penzance; Hans Schwarz The Meistersinger from Nurnberg

Career Highlights

Opera roles: Mozart’s Figaro (ENO, Munich, Sydney, Cincinnati); Bartolo (Gstaad, Munich); Leporello (Hamburg, New Zealand, Munich, Sydney, Vienna); Masetto (Metropolitan Opera, Tokyo, Baden-Baden); Papageno (Vienna, Chicago, Glyndebourne); Speaker/Sarastro, Basilio The Barber of Seville (ENO); Falstaff (Frankfurt); Sacristan Tosca, Jake Wallace Fanciulla del West (ROH); Pére Laurence Roméo et Juliette (Los Angeles, Cardiff); Queequeg Moby Dick (Dallas, San Francisco, San Diego); Argante Rinaldo (Munich); Narrator A Flowering Tree (Tokyo, Paris); Mr Flint Billy Budd (London); Saul (Munich); Zaroastro Orlando (ROH, Munich); Joseph El Niño (San Francisco, St Louis); Collatinus, Publio (Vienna); Rocco (Rotterdam); Rodomonte Orlando Paladino (Vienna, Berlin); Gobrias Belshazzar (Toulouse, Paris, London, Barcelona); Hunding (New Zealand); Bluebeard (Rotterdam); Fernando La gazza ladra (Frankfurt); Porgy (Cincinnati, Graz); Bottom (Lyon, Athens, Bari, Tel Aviv); Nettuno Idomeneo (Glyndebourne, Salzburg); Colline (ROH, New Zealand); Nick Shadow (London); Dulcamara (Esterházy), Osmin Die Entführung (Grange Festival), with conductors including Bicket, Bolton, Christie, Davis, Dutoit, Elder, Gergiev, Harding, Harnoncourt, Jacobs, Jurowski. Pappano, Rattle and Summers.

Recordings: Mr Flint (LSO/Harding); Samuel Saul (DG/McCreesh); recital (EMI/Vignoles); opera arias (EMI, Judd); English/American song (EMI/Martineau/Belcea Quartet); Gobrias Belshazzar (Christie); complete Schumann (Hyperion/Johnson); Porgy and Bess (Sony/Harnoncourt); complete Poulenc (Martineau); complete Wolf (Kynoch); Richard Rodney Bennett (Chandos/Hickox); Vivaldi Gloria (EMI/Cleobury); Masetto (Sony).

Forthcoming: Bottom (Grange Festival); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (RAH); returns to the Liceu Barcelona, ENO and Grange Festival.

Last updated: 3rd October 2023