About
Following a successful career as a baritone Alan made his debut as a tenor in 1992. Since then his career has covered much of the tenor repertoire for companies include Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Scottish Opera; Opera North; The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; English National Opera; Canadian Opera Company and The Metropolitan Opera as well as appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Brighton, Bregenz and Ravenna Festivals and the BBC Proms.
More recently he has established an enviable reputation in twentieth century and contemporary repertoire, including Chairman Mao Nixon in China for the BBC Proms and the Berlin Festival; Caliban The Tempest and Prince/Manservant/Marquis Lulu for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Hiereus/the Translator The Minotaur and Old Man Marshall in Turnage’s Anna Nicole for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Schoolteacher The Cunning Little Vixen for Welsh National Opera. He sang his first Peter Grimes to great acclaim for the Aldeburgh Festival as part of their Britten centenary season and Captain Vere Billy Budd in Genoa and for Opera North to add to his already celebrated Aschenbach Death in Venice.
Future highlights including The Rake’s Progress at Netherlands Opera, The Skating Rink at Garsington Opera and a return to the Royal Opera House for Das Rheingold.