Richard Black

I am a freelance repetiteur, based in inner London, and have been doing this line of work (alongside general accompaniment for both singers and instrumentalists) for a little over 20 years. I'm happy to take on any period////style of music: if I have a speciality it's Wagner, but I've done plenty of other operas from the dawn of the artform to the present day. I don't consider myself expert with baroque repertoire, though - I can play it but don't know much about it. On the other hand I'm good with contemporary stuff. I've rehearsed and/or coached about 50 complete operas and of course have a partial knowledge of dozens more. Auditions: I do a lot of these and enjoy them. I know most of the standard audition repertoire (last time I counted I got to about 600 arias without much difficult