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Omar Ebrahim

Baritone

  • That ever-remarkable baritone Omar Ebrahim, always sensitive to text, had chilling authority
    Fiona Maddocks, Observer
  • the star is Omar Ebrahim. He wheezes, roars, belches and retches the part of Skellig with terrific verve
    Richard Morrison, The Times

  • Omar Ebrahim studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and served his performing apprenticeship at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Glyndebourne.

    He has been involved with many contemporary operas including performances of Osborne, Tippett and Birtwistle for Glyndebourne Festival, Berio and Birtwistle for Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bose and Lieberson for Munich Biennale and Tanglewood, as well as working regularly for Almeida Opera, Basel Opera and Opera Factory where his roles ranged from Birtwistle to Mozart. More recently he has sung opera premiere’s by Kris Defoort for La Monnaie Brussels, Liza Lim for Elision Ensemble and Eotvos at the Chatelet Theatre Paris. He has also sung with New Israeli Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera Theatre Company Dublin.

    He regularly appears with leading contemporary groups including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble and Ensemble Intercontemporain and has also appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Northern Sinfonia, MusikFabrik Cologne, Ensemble Recherche, Bochum Symphoniker and Ensemble Umze. He has sung at major festivals and concert halls worldwide including BBC Proms, Lincoln Center New York and Salzburg Festival.

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    • In the Penal Colony
      Music Theatre Wales

      That ever-remarkable baritone Omar Ebrahim, always sensitive to text, had chilling authority as the Officer.
      Fiona Maddocks, Observer
      Omar Ebrahim's powerful and emotive Officer
      Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman
      Omar Ebrahim put flesh and blood on the blinkered Officer
      Andrew Clark, Financial Times

    • Skellig
      The Sage

      the star is Omar Ebrahim. He wheezes, roars, belches and retches the part of Skellig with terrific verve
      Richard Morrison, The Times
      the magnificent Omar Ebrahim, who gave the early enfeebled Skellig a scary baritone rasp before declaiming his name in a great melismatic shout at the end of the first half..... And then Skellig, who drops into the hospital to protect the child, finally bursts into full-throated song, a real hog-the-stage solo which Ebrahim relishes as he spreads both his wings and his voice.
      David Ward, Observer
      The casting for Braham Murray's production - the first full opera to be commissioned by the Sage - is first rate. Omar Ebrahim is outstanding as the arthritic angel: his emergence from a heap of old sacks prompts squeals of disgust from the young audience, and he is required to employ the full extent of his baritone range from guttural grunting to unearthly falsetto.
      Alfred Hickling, Guardian

  • Omar Ebrahim’s Repertoire

    Barber
    • Samuel Hand of Bridge
    Berio
    • Un Re in Ascolto (Singer)
    Beckett
    • Words and Music
    Birtwistle
    • Gawain (Fool)
    • Mask of Orpheus (Aristaeus II)
    • Punch and Judy (Punch)
    • The Second Mrs. Kong (Vermeer)
    • Yan Tan Tethera
    Bizet
    • Carmen (Escamillo)
    Cavalli
    • Calisto
    Davis
    • Peace
    Dove / Feldman
    • Siren Song
    Henze
    • The Raft of the Medusa
    Lieberson
    • King Gesar (Narrator)
    Ligeti
    • Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures
    Mozart
    • Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
    Oliver
    • Beauty and the Beast (Beast)
    Osborne
    • Nigel Hell's Angels
    • Terrible Mouth
    • The Electrification of the Soviet Union (Serezha)
    Puccini
    • La Boheme (Schaunard)
    Schoenberg
    • A Survivor from Warsaw
    • Ode to Napoleon
    Sondheim
    • Sweeney Todd (Tobias)
    J. Strauss
    • Die Fledermaus (Orlofsky)
    R. Strauss
    • Enoch Arden
    Sullivan
    • Iolanthe (Strephon)
    Tippett
    • King Priam (Hector)
    • New Year (Donny)
    • The Knot Garden
    Verdi
    • Macbeth (Macbeth)
    Von Bose
    • 63 Dream Palace (Parkurst)
    Weill
    • Mahagonny Songspiel
    • The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny (Bill)

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