John Graham-Hall portrait by Stu Williamson
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He studied at King’s College Cambridge, and the RCM.
He has sung the title role in Albert Herring, Vána Kudrjáš/Kát’a Kabanová, Flute/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bob Boles/Peter Grimes (GFO); Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus, Lysander/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aschenbach/Death in Venice, Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Albert Herring (GOT); Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte (ROH, ENO); Danilo/The Merry Widow, Vitek/The Makropulos Case, Valzacchi/Der Rosenkavalier, Don Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro, Lysander, Herod/Salome (ENO); Cassio/Otello (WNO), Eisenstein, Schoolmaster/The Cunning Little Vixen (Scottish Opera); Podesta/La finta giardiniera (Salzburg); Michel/Juliette and Idiot/Wozzeck (Opéra National de Paris); Dancing Master/Ariadne auf Naxos, Aschenbach, Cassio, Don Basilio (La Monnaie); Doctor/The Fall of the House of Usher (Bregenz); Šapkin/From the House of the Dead (Nice); Lysander (Paris, Lyon, Caen, Montpellier, Rome, Ravenna Festival); Lensky/Eugene Onegin (Lyon, Toronto); Ferrando (Vancouver); Telemacus/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Cassio (Lisbon); Achilles/King Priam, Painter/Lulu (Antwerp); Spoletta/Tosca, Don Basilio (Netherlands Opera); Der Diktatur, Schwergewicht (Stuttgart). Plans include Aschenbach, Sellem (La Monnaie); Shuisky/Boris Godunov (ENO); Mr Broucek/The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Opera North and Scottish Opera); Don Basilio, Herod on new Chandos recordings.