Christopher Lemmings

The British/Irish tenor Christopher Lemmings studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Roles include: for Covent Garden, Stingo in Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice under Sir Simon Rattle, Caliban The Tempest (Adès), Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos and Boyar Boris Godunov for Glyndebourne Tour;Tito La Clemenza di Tito, Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Lechmere Owen Wingrave, for Glyndebourne Festival; Il Maestro di Ballo Manon Lescaut, Parpignol/Death La Bohéme, and Bartholomew in Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper, premièred at the Staatsoper, Berlin under Daniel Barenboim; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Cologne/Verona); Il Podestà La Finta Giardiniera (Buxton); Albert Albert Herring ETO, The Mayor Albert Herring (Firenze); L’abate di Chazeuil Adriana Lecouvreur and Ferrando Cosi Fan Tutte (Holland Park), Bob Boles Peter Grimes, Der Bucklige Die Frau ohne Schatten and Spoletta Tosca (Vlaamse Opera), Red Whiskers in Deborah Warner’s production of Billy Budd (Rome) and The Schoolmaster Cunning Little Vixen and Goro Madama Butterfly (Bergen).

With a strong reputation for his work in Twentieth Century and Contemporary music, Christopher has collaborated with composers such as Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Thomas Adès, Oliver Knussen, Pascal Dusapin and Nicholas Maw. Roles include Clarence/Tyrrel in Robert Carsen’s production of Giorgio Batistelli’s Richard III (Strasbourg/Genève/Venice), Jack O’Brien in Graham Vick’s production of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and Der Prinz/Der Marquis in the William Kentridge production of Lulu for Rome Opera, Claude/Robinson in Philippe Fenelon’s JJR Citoyen
de Geneve (Genève), Habinnas in Bruno Moderna’s Satyricon (La Fenice), Neoptolemus Birds, Barks, Bones (Rushton), and The Prince Seven Angels (Luke Bedford) with the Opera Group/ BCMG, Edmund King Lear (Hosakawa) at ROH2, Molqi The Death of Klinghoffer (Helsinki), Sellem The Rake’s Progress (Nantes/Angers) and Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are/Higglety Pigglety Pop! (Aldeburgh/LA Phil cond. Gustavo Dudamel), Mouse/Dormouse Alice in Wonderland (Chin)(dir. Netia Jones, cond. Susanna Mälkki), Der Zweite Junge Offizier Die Soldaten (Bochum/Lincoln Centre Festival NYC). With Music Theatre Wales he sang Dov Knot Garden and created the role of Robin Fingest in Michael Berkeley and Ian McEwan’s opera For You, both at ROH2 Covent Garden.

Opera in concert includes: Gerald Barry’s Triumph of Beauty and Deceit under Thomas Adès (Radio France, Amsterdam, LA Phil, Carnegie Hall); Hotel Porter Death in Venice, Lechmere Owen Wingrave and Molqi The Death of Klinghoffer (Concertgebouw Amsterdam cond. Edo de Waart); Itulbo Il Pirata and L’abbé/L’incredibile Andrea Chénier (QEH).

Other concert appearances: Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality (Liverpool Phil); Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (Northern Sinfonia); Rossini’s Stabat Mater (RTE Dublin); Haydn’s Stabat Mater (Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra), War Requiem (Darmstadt), Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass (Brighton Festival), Orff’s Carmina Burana (RFH), and Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher with Marion Cotillard as Jeanne at the 61st Spoleto Festival 2018.

Future plans include Second Hebrew Salome (Rome), and Sonata for Broken Fingers (Hoehn/ Cutler) with BCMG. Recordings include For You (Berkeley/McEwan), Thierry Pécou’s Le Monde étincelant (Ensemble Variances – Ohuaya Records/XXI Music), The Sacred Heart of Nino Rota, and the critically acclaimed Rorem Auden Songs with Chamber Domaine (Sanctuary Classics)

www.christopherlemmings.com

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