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Classicsonline Home » Artists » » Gadd, Stephen

Stephen Gadd

Stephen Gadd is one of Britain’s best known and most versatile concert and opera singers: he has made numerous appearances at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and he broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio. After graduating from St John’s College, Cambridge, he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He was twice a finalist in the Plácido Domingo International Singing Competition, and among other numerous awards he won the 1990 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. Since then he has performed with major orchestras in concerts throughout Europe and the Orient. His opera performances have included the title rôle in Verdi’s Macbeth and Melot in Tristan und Isolde for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Paolo in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten for the Salzburg Festival, Der Führer der Prévôté in Cardillac for Opéra de Paris, Germont Père in La traviata for Den Norske Opera, Oslo, Lysiart (Euryanthe) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Ping (Turandot) for Covent Garden, Balstrode (Peter Grimes) for Opéra de Montpellier, Valentin (Faust) for the Opéra National du Rhin, Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera) for English National Opera, Escamillo in Carmen for Welsh National Opera, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Riccardo (I Puritani) and Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) for Opéra de Nantes, the Conte di Luna (Il