Keynote Artist Management

instagram

Website

website

Bass-baritone

Richard Walshe

Singer

Artist

Approved

Richard is currently a soloist with Staatsoper Hannover. Recent roles include Shaunard (La Bohème), Melisso (Alcina), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and All Characters (Der Mordfall Halit Yozgat). Previous roles include Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte).

Richard was a 2018/19 member of the Zürich International Opera Studio where he appeared as Bartolo in the young artist production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Theater Winterthur. In the same year, he played Angelotti in a semi-staged concert production of Tosca at the Emirates Palace Auditorium as part of the Abu Dhabi Festival. He spent the 2018 Summer season as a member of the Glyndebourne chorus and the previous Summer as an artist with the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project, appearing as Eiler in the Salzburg Festival Kinderoper Der Schauspieldirektor. In June 2016, he debuted for Opera Holland Park, performing the role of Colline in La Bohème as part of the Christine Collins’ Young Artist Programme, a role he reprised in a concert performance with Northern Ireland Opera.

Richard completed his formal training with Royal Academy Opera, under the tutelage of Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham. For RAO, Richard performed the roles of Minskman (Flight), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Brown (Die Dreigroschenoper), Melisso (Alcina), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicchi). Richard was also a member of Royal Academy Song Circle, appearing with them in a concert of Venetian Songs at the Wigmore Hall.

Richard was winner of the prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award in 2016. He was also awarded the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize at the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, and the second and audience prizes at the National Mozart Competition in 2017. As an Oratorio soloist, performances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Brahms’ Requiem; Mozart’s Requiem; Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s Cantata BWV 203 Amore Traditore; Pilate and Christus in Bach’s St Johns Passion; Zebul in Handel’s Jephtha; and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

English

Gianni Schicchi

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

La Bohème

Colline

Flight

Minsk man

Macbeth

Un domestico di Macbeth

Sicario

Le Grand Macabre

Schabernak

Electra

Ein alter Diener

The Barber of Seville

Don Bartolo

Tosca

Cesare Angelotti

Alcina

Melisso

The Magic Flute

Sprecher

Salome

1. Soldat

King Lear

König von Frankreich

Così fan tutte

Don Alfonso

Don Giovanni

Leporello

Tristan and Isolde

Ein Steuerman

The Love Potion

Le Duc Hoël

Othello

Montano

The Marriage of Figaro

Figaro

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Bottom

Orfeo

Plutone

Schaunard

The Elixir of Love

Il dottore Dulcamara

Carmen

Escamillo

Der Mordfall Halit Yozgat

NN 3

Richard Walshe / Repertoire

Repertoire

Explore more about Richard Walshe