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  • Paul Carey Jones moves with immense presence as the Wanderer, rolling out his phrases with shining majesty and generally reaffirming that he's well along the path to being one of the towering Wotans of our time.
    Richard Bratby
  • There was brilliance, too, both in Anthony Negus' majestic account of the score with a Longborough Festival Orchestra of unreasonably high quality, and in Carey Jones' formidable Wanderer. The Welsh bass-baritone's beauty of tone and unwavering delivery of each note, no matter where it fell in his register, were as remarkable as his depiction of a broken god with feet of human clay. This Wotan willed Siegfried to destroy his staff, an admission that he was exhausted by life, eternal or otherwise.
    Mark Valencia
  • Paul Carey Jones builds on his impressive Wotan last year to deliver a Wanderer that is even more vocally compelling, especially in his final rant before disappearing from the world he has helped to ruin.
    Richard Morrison
  • The central figure is the appearance of the god Wotan as the Wanderer... Paul Carey Jones turns him into a figure of huge authority, splendidly imposing of voice.
    Nicholas Kenyon
  • If Act One was absorbing, Act Two was in another league from the word go, thanks to the biting clarity and acting chops of a couple of gods in Paul Carey Jones (Wotan) and Madeleine Shaw (Fricka). This was singing of the highest quality, from the pinpoint accuracy of their intonation to the power and glory of their vocal projection. I could have listened to them all night - and in the case of Carey Jones I practically did, such is the size of his role in this second Ring opera. In less powerful hands his lengthy recap from Das Rheingold can easily sag, but here it became a spellbinding piece of storytelling. The Welsh bass-baritone made clear at every turn that this is Wotan's tragedy above all: a tale of sacrifice born of hubris.
    Mark Valencia
  • Grimeborn’s Das Rheingold was far more rewarding, thanks to Peter Selwyn’s impressive choice of soloists, notably Paul Carey Jones’s nobly sung Wotan, whetting the appetite for his Longborough Ring.
    Hugh Canning
  • Many of the Rheingold team are already far along the Wagnerian road. Paul Carey Jones, bursting and rigid with cold self-regard, vocally magisterial as Wotan, a Wagner prize winner in 2013. (Look out for his forthcoming Wotan at Longborough.)
    Fiona Maddocks
  • A masterclass in characterisation. His focus never slipped and even when silent he filled every second of Wotan’s stage time with action, reaction and reflection. Who needs surtitles when you can follow the whole plot by watching Wotan’s face? Carey Jones's powerful, grand-operatic voice was everything the role requires.
    Mark Valencia
  • Paul Carey Jones’s Wotan is even grander, a huge voice and a commanding, wily presence that you could imagine would take no prisoners in a production with full orchestra.
    Peter Reed
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StagedFestivalMatinéeRevival

Siegfried, Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Der Wanderer (The Wanderer)

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Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Wotan

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StagedFestivalMatinéeRevival

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Wotan

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Opera
Opera in concertMatinée

Siegfried Act 3, Wagner, Richard

The Mahler Players

Der Wanderer (The Wanderer)

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Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Humperdinck

Opera Holland Park

Peter

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Oratorio / Orchestral
Concert

St David's Day: Welsh Myth and Legend - Past and Present, Various

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Bass-baritone

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  • Siegfried Wagner, Richard
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StagedFestivalMatinéeRevival

Siegfried, Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Der Wanderer (The Wanderer)

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  • Die Walküre Wagner, Richard
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StagedNew ProductionFestivalMatinée

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Wotan

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  • Das Rheingold Wagner, Richard
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StagedFestivalMatinéeRevival

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Wagner, Richard

Longborough Festival Opera

Wotan

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  • Siegfried Act 3
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Opera in concertMatinée

Siegfried Act 3, Wagner, Richard

The Mahler Players

Der Wanderer (The Wanderer)

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  • Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck
  • Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck
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Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Humperdinck

Opera Holland Park

Peter

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Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Wagner, Richard

Saffron Opera Group
C: Michael Thorne

Hans Sachs

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Saffron Walden, United Kingdom (Saffron Hall)
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stagedNew ProductionMatinée
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Rigoletto, Verdi

Welsh National Opera ( WNO )
C: Pietro RizzoD: Adele Thomas

Il Conte di Monterone (The Count of Monterone)

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Cardiff, United Kingdom (Wales Millennium Centre)

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Cardiff, United Kingdom (Wales Millennium Centre)

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Cardiff, United Kingdom (Wales Millennium Centre)

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Cardiff, United Kingdom (Wales Millennium Centre)

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Llandudno, United Kingdom (Venue Cymru)

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Plymouth, United Kingdom (Theatre Royal)

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Oxford, United Kingdom (New Theatre Oxford)

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Oxford, United Kingdom (New Theatre Oxford)

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Southampton, United Kingdom (The Mayflower Theatre (ex. Gaumont Theatre, The Empire Theatre))

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Southampton, United Kingdom (The Mayflower Theatre (ex. Gaumont Theatre, The Empire Theatre))

Fri19:30

Cardiff, United Kingdom (Wales Millennium Centre)

Thu19:30

Bristol, United Kingdom (Hippodrome)

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Bristol, United Kingdom (Hippodrome)
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Die Walküre - (The Valkyrie) Richard Wagner, Longborough Festival Opera

Manon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini, Opera Holland Park

Lulu Alban Berg, Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento

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Biography

Welsh-Irish heldenbaritone Paul Carey Jones was born in Cardiff and studied at The Queen's College Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio, where he was winner of the National Eisteddfod of Wales' premier award for young singers, the W Towyn Roberts Scholarship. In May 2013 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and he was joint winner of the 2013 Wagner Society Singing Competition. His continuing exploration of the heldenbariton repertoire is supported by The Mastersingers and the Carole Rees Award for Advanced Musical Studies, and his work during the current Coronavirus crisis is supported by the Arts Council of Wales. ​ Recent career highlights have included his Covent Garden debut in The Nose, his role debuts as Wotan Das Rheingold at London

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Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
Nick Shadow
Prepared
Verdi
Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff
Unprepared
Wagner, Richard
Tristan und Isolde
Kurwenal
Prepared
Parsifal
Amfortas
Prepared

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Berg
Lulu
Dr Schon Jack the Ripper
Bernstein
Trouble in Tahiti
Sam
Bizet
Carmen
Escamillo
Bjarnason, D.
Brødre
Colonell
Britten
Noye's Fludde
Noye No role specified
Daugherty, M.
Jackie O
Andy Warhol
Davies
The Lighthouse
2. Officer
Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Golaud
Delius
Margot la Rouge
L'Artiste
Donizetti
Rita
Gasparo
Fauré
Pénélope
Eurymaque
Glass
The Trial
Guard 2 Usher Clerk of the Court Priest
Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Peter
Janáček
Příhody lišky Bystroušky
Forester
MacMillan
Inés de Castro
Pacheco
Mascagni
L'amico Fritz
David
McNeff
The Burning Boy
Elisha
Mitchell, C.
The Musician
The Musician
Mozart
Così fan tutte
Don Alfonso
Die Zauberflöte
Speaker First priest Second armored man
Zaide, K. 344
Osmin
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Offenbach
Orphée aux enfers
John Styx
Paisiello
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Bartolo No role specified
Puccini
Tosca
Baron Scarpia Cesare Angelotti The sacristan
Turandot
Ping
La Bohème
Marcello
Manon Lescaut
Lescaut
Rossini
La Cenerentola
Alidoro
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Fiorello
L'italiana in Algeri
Haly
Shostakovich
The Nose, op. 15
Footman Ivan Ivanovitch Eight students
Smyth
The Wreckers
Lawrence
Verdi
Macbeth
Macbeth
La Traviata
Marchese d'Obigny Dottore Grenvil
Rigoletto
The Count of Ceprano The Count of Monterone
Wagner, Richard
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Hans Sachs
Die Walküre
Wotan
Siegfried
The Wanderer
Das Rheingold (reduction)
Wotan
Das Rheingold (adaptation)
Wotan
Tannhäuser
Biterolf
Das Rheingold
Wotan
Weill
Der Silbersee
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