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Barnaby Rea

Bass

  • Barnaby Rea’s Second Priest boasts a commanding presence and a rich bass voice.
    Andrew Clark, The Financial Times
  • Barnaby Rea is an outstanding Bottom, surely a bass going places.
    Neil Fisher, The Times
  • Barnaby Rea’s full-voiced Collatinus is outstanding.
    Richard Morrison, The Times

  • Barnaby Rea has just graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied on the highly acclaimed opera course under the guidance of John Evans.  He was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Wingate foundation, the Hope Chest, Serena Fenwick, Towergate and the Worshipful Company of Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers.

    Operatic roles include Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia and Trulove and Madhouse Keeper The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera), Il Commendatore and Masetto Don Giovanni (Westminster Opera), and Benoit and Alcindoro in Opera-Up-Close’s Olivier Award-winning production of La bohème.  At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama he has sung Sir John Falstaff Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Morales and Zuniga Carmen, King Rene Iolanta, Superintendent Budd Albert Herring, M. Javelinot  and Le Geolier Dialogues des Carmelites, Pietro de Visantis L’Assedio di Calais, Froissart The King Goes Forth to France, Carlino Don Pasquale and Zweiter Geharnischter Die Zauberflöte, as well as excerpts from Mephistopheles Faust, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau Der Rosenkavalier, Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Magnifico La Cenerentola, Mustafa Italiana in Algeri, Le Diable Griselidis, Dottore Grenvil La Traviata, Snug A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the title role in Don Pasquale and Le Nozze di Figaro.

    Recent operatic appearances include a much lauded portrayal of Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican Theatre and Dr. Gibbs in the European premier of Ned Rorem’s Our Town, both for GSMD, Ensemble in English National Opera’s ground-breaking staging of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz and Zaretsky and Captain Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park) and Second Priest and Second Armed Man The Magic Flute (English National Opera).  Future operatic engagements include Bonze Madam Butterfly and Rocco I Gioielli della Madonna (Opera Holland Park).

    This season Barnaby will attend the National Opera Studio where he will be supported by Scottish Opera and a Sybil Tutton Award administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

    Barnaby Rea is represented worldwide by Ben Rayfield at Rayfield Allied.
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    • Our Town (Ned Rorem), June 2012
      Guildhall School of Music and Drama

      Barnaby Rea was a fine, sonorous Dr. Gibbs
      Neil Fisher, The Times

    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, February 2012
      Guildhall School of Music and Drama

      Barnaby Rea is an outstanding Bottom, surely a bass going places.
      Neil Fisher, The Times
      Barnaby Rea was an entertaining Bottom with neat comic timing and a warm bass-baritone. It’s a gift of a role and the audience lapped up his antics.
      Mark Pullinger, Opera Britannia
      Barnaby Rea is splendid as Bottom: his vocal control, musicality and acting ability (including body language in his role as the donkey) are very impressive.
      Agnes Kory, Musical Criticism

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