Robin Blaze
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Robin Blaze is a countertenor.
The son of a professional golfer Peter, Robin Blaze grew up in Shadwell, near Leeds and was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Uppingham School, and the University of Oxford (BA Music).
Having made his first solo recordings as a treble with Stephen Lomas, Blaze was both a chorister and an academical clerk at Magdalen College and after graduating won a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music. He has continued to study with Michael Chance and Ashley Stafford and he is now a professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal College.
His opera roles have included:
* Anfinomo in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon)
* Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina (Karlsruhe)
* Unulfo in Handel’s Rodelinda (Broomhill Opera Festival, produced by Jonathan Miller)
* Athamas in Handel’s Semele (Royal Opera House and English National Opera, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras AC CH CBE)
* Didymus in Handel’s Theodora (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
* Arsamenes in Handel’s Xerxes (English National Opera)
* Hamor in Handel’s Jephtha (English National Opera)
* Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda (Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Göttingen Handel Festival)
* Rinaldo in Handel’s Rinaldo (Göttingen Handel Festival)
* Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English National Opera)
* Rupert Brooke in Geraint Lewis’s A Shining Piece
The son of a professional golfer Peter, Robin Blaze grew up in Shadwell, near Leeds and was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Uppingham School, and the University of Oxford (BA Music).
Having made his first solo recordings as a treble with Stephen Lomas, Blaze was both a chorister and an academical clerk at Magdalen College and after graduating won a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music. He has continued to study with Michael Chance and Ashley Stafford and he is now a professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal College.
His opera roles have included:
* Anfinomo in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon)
* Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina (Karlsruhe)
* Unulfo in Handel’s Rodelinda (Broomhill Opera Festival, produced by Jonathan Miller)
* Athamas in Handel’s Semele (Royal Opera House and English National Opera, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras AC CH CBE)
* Didymus in Handel’s Theodora (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
* Arsamenes in Handel’s Xerxes (English National Opera)
* Hamor in Handel’s Jephtha (English National Opera)
* Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda (Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Göttingen Handel Festival)
* Rinaldo in Handel’s Rinaldo (Göttingen Handel Festival)
* Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English National Opera)
* Rupert Brooke in Geraint Lewis’s A Shining Piece
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Bach, J.S.: Whitsun Cantatas BWV 172, 59, 74 & 34
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BACH, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 37 (BWV 35, 169, 170, 200)
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BACH, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 34 (BWV 1, 126, 127)
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