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Michael Druiett

Bass-baritone

  • superbly sung by the bass-baritone Michael Druiett
    Hilary Finch, The Times
  • Michael Druiett’s towering Wotan leads from the front
    Martin Dreyer, York Press
  • Michael Druiett made an authoritative Wotan, with just the right hint of pomposity
    Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph

  • Michael Druiett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music Opera School and the National Opera Studio. At the outset of his career, he was a member of English National Opera and Royal Opera House Covent Garden as a principal bass, and as a guest with many other companies in the UK and Europe including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera National de Montpellier, La Monnaie Brussels, Opera de Lyon, New Israeli Opera and Opera National de Paris.

    In recent years he has moved into the dramatic baritone and bass-baritone repertoire beginning when he was invited by Scottish Opera to sing Donner Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Richard Armstrong, followed by Monterone Rigoletto and Prince Ivan Khovansky Khovanschina for Welsh National Opera. A significant landmark was reached when he was invited to sing Wotan Das Rheingold by Opera North where he also sings Commendatore Don Giovanni.

    Other recent engagements have included Sharpless Madame Butterfly Barone Duphol La Traviata, Misha The Bartered Bride and Redburn Billy Budd for Opera National de Paris , Jockannan Salome for Welsh National Opera and Monterone Rigoletto at Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

    He also enjoys a busy concert career, which includes performances of Elijah, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Brahms Ein Deutsches Reqiuem, Berlioz La Damnation de Faust, L’Enfance du Christ, Bach St Matthew Passion, Faure Requiem and Mahler Symphony No. 8 with orchestras in the UK and Europe.

    Michael Druiett is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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    • Das Rheingold
      Opera North

      Michael Druiett, the commanding Wotan, with a remarkably Wagnerian profile, not only has a sumptuous voice, but also uses it to express both Wotan’s grandeur of aspiration, and his shocking (in this primeval scene) political intriguing, his affection for Fricka and his need to roam, with no exaggerations. Surely he will get a spear in the later dramas?
      Michael Tanner, The Spectator
      A cast of uniformly high quality sang from memory. Michael Druiett’s towering Wotan led from the front, showing proper signs of vacillation when his sovereignty was under threat, but regaining authority with Freia’s recovery.
      Martin Dreyer, Opera Magazine
      Michael Drueitt made an authoritative Wotan, with just the right hint of pomposity…
      Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph
      ...his voice gains authority, and his smug demeanour - ripe for his comeuppance - is gripping.
      Richard Morrison, The Times
      Michael Druiett is vocally and dramatically a suave and imposing Wotan; the voice is smooth and dark, his phrasing supremely elegant with subtle shading of dynamics. Throughout Druiett's long role, not for a single bar did I tire of hearing or watching him.
      Geoffrey Mogridge, Opera Britannia
      A cast of uniformly high quality sings from memory. Michael Druiett’s towering Wotan leads from the front…
      Martin Dreyer, York Press
      Michael Druiett is a visually imposing Wotan...
      David Denton, Yorkshire Post
      But what really makes it credible are the performances, particularly Michael Druiett as the ruler of the Gods, Wotan...
      Rod McPhee, Yorkshire Evening Post
      ...Michael Druiett imposing as Wotan...who once again emerges as the real villain of this gripping saga.
      Birmingham Post
      Conductor Richard Farnes kept it all together deftly – cue brass, cue strings, cue anvils (yes, you read that right) – and the singing performances were a masterclass in controlled power. Michael Druiett, as the god Wotan, looked and sounded like a guy who could issue thunderbolts from his forefingers, but he was in a spot of bother. In fact, everyone in this opera is permanently in a spot of bother.
      David Whetstone, The Journal
      At the other end of the spectrum was Michael Druiett, whose towering frame and authoritative voice personified the chief of gods, Wotan.
      Gavin Engelbrecht, The Northern Echo

  • Michael Druiett Opera Repertoire

    BEETHOVEN
    • Fidelio (Pizzaro)
    BRITTEN
    • Peter Grimes (Balstrode/ Hobson)
    • Billy Budd (Redburn)
    • Rape of Lucretia ( Colatinus)
    • Albert Herring (Supt. Budd)
    FLOYD
    • Susanna (Elder McClean)
    MOZART
    • Don Giovanni (Commendatore)
    • Die Zauberfloete (Sprecher)
    MUSSORGSKY
    • Boris Godunov (Boris)
    • Khovanschina (Ivan)
    PUCCINI
    • Madame Butterfly (Sharpless/Bonze)
    • La Fanciulla del West (Ashby)
    SHOSTAKOVITCH
    • Lady Macbeth (Boris)
    SMETANA
    • Bartered Bride (Micha)
    STRAUSS
    • Salome (Jokanaan)
    VERDI
    • Aida (Amonasro)
    • La Traviata (Barone)
    • Rigoletto (Monterone)
    • Otello (Lodovico)
    WAGNER
    • Das Rheingold (Wotan)
    • Parsifal (Gurnemanz)

    Michael Druiett Concert Repertoire

    BACH
    • St John Passion (Christus)
    • St Matthew Passion (Christus)
    BEETHOVEN
    • Symphony No 9
    • Missa Solemnis
    BERLIOZ
    • La Damnation de Faust (Brander)
    • L’enfance du Christ (Herod)
    BRAHMS
    • Ein Deutches Requiem
    DVORAK
    • Te Deum
    ELGAR
    • Dream of Gerontius
    FAURE
    • Requiem
    MAHLER
    • Symphony No 8 (Pater Profundus)
    • Songs of a Wayfairer
    MOZART
    • Requiem
    MENDELSOHN
    • Elijah
    PUCCINI
    • Messa di Gloria
    ROSSINI
    • Stabat Mater
    • Messe Solenelle
    VERDI
    • Requiem
    WALTON
    • Belshazaars Feast

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