Grant Doyle (baritone)

Grant Doyle (b. 1971) is an Australian/British operatic baritone.

For the tennis player, see Grant Doyle (tennis).

Grant Doyle
Birth nameGrant William Doyle
Born1971
Adelaide, South Australia
OriginAdelaide, South Australia, Australia
GenresClassical
Opera
Vocal
Occupation(s)Baritone classical singer
Years active1994–present
Websitewww.grantdoyle.com

Biography

Born in Adelaide, Doyle studied voice at the Elder Conservatorium and then the Opera School at the Royal College of Music in London, subsequently winning a place on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

His roles for the ROH include Ping Turandot, Small Prisoner/Čekunov From The House of the Dead, El Dancairo Carmen, Apprentice Wozzeck, Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos, Schaunard La boheme, Demetrius A Midsummers Night's Dream, Marullo Rigoletto and Billy Wayne Smith in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole.[1]

Opera credits include Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles,[2] Yeletsky Queen of Spades, Marcello La bohème[3] and Fantastic Mr Fox[4] for Opera Holland Park; Forester Cunning Little Vixen,[5] the title role in Don Giovanni[6] and Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro[7] for Garsington Opera; Demetrius at the Teatro Real in Madrid;[8] Ned Keene Peter Grimes for Teatro Perez Galdos[9] in Gran Canaria as well as Mike in John Adams' I Was Looking at the Ceiling for Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. He has appeared with Opera North, starring as Robin Oakapple in their acclaimed Jo Davies production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore[10] as well as Sasha Paradise Moscow.[11] He has sung Marcello La bohème for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall[12] and also Schaunard for Glyndebourne Touring Opera.[13] He has sung the title role in The Barber of Seville,[14] Marcello,[15] Hector King Priam,[16] Eduardo L'assedio di Calais,[17] Paolo Simon Boccanegra[18] and Emireno Ottone[19] for English Touring Opera, as well as creating the role of Abraham in James MacMillan's Clemency directed by Katie Mitchell for ROH2 and revived for Scottish Opera[20] at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival. In 2017 he sang the role of Sir Thomas Bertram in the premiere of the orchestrated version of Jonathon Dove's Mansfield Park for the Grange Festival.

He is an ambassador for the community opera project Blackheath Halls Opera and has performed Marcello La bohème, Belcore L'elisir d'amore, Escamillo Carmen and in 2012, Pandolfe in their well received production of Massenet's Cendrillon.[21]

In his native Australia, Grant has sung Don Giovanni,[22] Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles,[23] the Count Le nozze di Figaro[24] and Starbuck in Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick for State Opera of South Australia for which he won a 2012 Helpmann Award for Best Male Performer in a Supporting Role.[25] He sang Orestes in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride for Pinchgut Opera[26] in Sydney and Phillip II in the premiere of Isaac Nathan's ballad opera Don John of Austria, recorded for ABC Classics with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.[27] He made his debut with Opera Queensland in 2017, singing Zurga in Michael Gow's production of Les pêcheurs de perles.

He played the title role in the 2008 Channel 4/ABC film of Jonathan Mills' The Eternity Man, the story of Sydney's legendary Arthur Stace.[28] The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and had screenings on ABC TV, Channel 4, Barbican Cinema in London, Locarno Festival and won a Rose d'Or for best Performing Arts Programme in 2009.[29] He also recorded the Forester for the BBC animated film of The Cunning Little Vixen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano[30] as well as taking the role of Carlo in Judith Weir’s film opera Armida for Channel 4 TV.[31]

As a busy concert soloist, Grant has performed Carmina Burana with the Royal Philharmonic,[32] Crouch End Festival Chorus/Barbican,[33] as well as for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall.[34] Other performances include Elijah (Blackheath Halls),[35] Weill's Seven Deadly Sins (Hallé Orchestra,[36]), Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass (Philharmonia at the Brighton Festival),[37] Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra,[38] Britten War Requiem (Huddersfield Choral Society),[39] Tippett's A Child of Our Time[40] and Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony[41] (Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Barbican), and Messiah with the Nottingham Harmonic Choir[42] and also with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall.[43]

He appears regularly as a soloist in Raymond Gubbay concerts such as Classical Spectacular[44] and Last Night of the Proms as well as a soloist with Sinfonia ViVa including their Darley Park outdoor concerts[45] to audiences of over 30,000.

He holds dual citizenship of Australia and the UK and currently lives in south east London.

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References
  1. Royal Opera House Website http://www.roh.org.uk/people/grant-doyle Retrieved 1 April 2015
  2. Rupert Christiansen "Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Opera Holland Park, review" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/10143222/Les-Pecheurs-de-Perles-Opera-Holland-Park-review.html 26 June 2013
  3. Delia Casadei "Puccini: La Bohème, Opera Holland Park" review http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/ohp-boheme-0609.shtml 28 June 2009
  4. Opera Holland Park Website http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/operahollandpark/2012season/fantasticmrfox.aspx#.VQromFXtmko retrieved 1 April 2015
  5. Gavin Dixon, "The Cunning Little Vixen in all its rustic glory at Garsington" http://bachtrack.com/review-vixen-garsington-booth-doyle-june-2014 26 June 2014
  6. William Hartston, Daily Express review http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/326377/Review-Don-Giovanni-by-Mozart-L-Olimpiade-by-Vivaldi-Garsington-Opera 13 June 2012
  7. Igor Toronyi-Lalic "Le nozze di Figaro, Garsington Opera" http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/le-nozze-di-figaro-garsington-opera 6 June 2010
  8. Teatro Real website http://www.madridteatro.eu/teatr/informacion/2006/informacion163.htm retrieved 1 April 2015
  9. Teatro Perez Galdos Website http://www.teatroperezgaldos.com/en/operapeterartistica.htm Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 1 April 2015
  10. By Rupert Christiansen "Opera North's Ruddigore, review" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7130347/Opera-Norths-Ruddigore-review.html 1 February 2010
  11. Opera North e-flier http://www.e-flier.co.uk/operanorth/spring2009/paradisemoscow/ retrieved 1 April 2015
  12. Tim Ashley, Guardian Review https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/feb/28/classicalmusicandopera 26 June 2004
  13. Financial Times review http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/430ba7e2-1802-11d9-9ac5-00000e2511c8.html#axzz3UqUHEi00 retrieved 1 April 2015
  14. John Allison, The Barber of Seville, ETO, Seven magazine review https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/9153756/The-Barber-of-Seville-ETO-Seven-magazine-review.html 19 Mar 2012
  15. George Hall, "La Bohème review – sparse but beautifully sung production from ETO" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/15/la-boheme-hackney-empire-opera-review 15 March 2015
  16. Richard Fairman, King Priam, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London – review http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/16d66190-9880-11e3-8503-00144feab7de.html#axzz3UqUHEi00 18 February 2014
  17. Mark Valencia, The Siege of Calais (English Touring Opera - Tour) http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/the-siege-of-calais-english-touring-opera-tour_37324.html 9 Mar 2015
  18. Peter Reed, Simon Boccanegra, English Touring Opera, at Hackney Empire https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/9928422/English-Touring-Operas-Simon-Boccanegra.html 13 Mar 2013
  19. Rupert Christiansen, Ottone, English Touring Opera, review: 'a rare delight for Handel lovers' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/11187679/Ottone-Handel-English-Touring-opera-review.html 25 Oct 2014
  20. Scottish Opera Website http://www.scottishopera.org.uk/clemency-press-reviews Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 1 April 2015
  21. Blackheath Halls Website http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/blackheath-halls/community-engagement-programme/blackheath-halls-opera retrieved 1 April 2015
  22. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/arts/grant-doyle-shines-in-state-opera-sas-version-of-don-giovanni/story-fni6um8e-1227376870059
  23. Ewart Shaw, Opera - The Pearl Fishers http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/arts/opera-the-pearl-fishers/story-fn503imo-1225922419166 SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
  24. "The Marriage of Figaro - State Opera South Australia". australianstage.com.au.
  25. "Past nominees and winners". helpmannawards.com.au.
  26. "Iphigenie en Tauride review: A dramatic feast even the gods approve of". The Sydney Morning Herald.
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  29. "ABC's Eternity Man wins international award". TV Tonight.
  30. tavm (20 April 2003). "The Cunning Little Vixen (TV Movie 2003)". IMDb.
  31. "Judith Weir". musicsalesclassical.com.
  32. "London Philharmonic Choir - 2006/2007 season". lpc.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  33. "Barbican - Crouch End Festival Chorus". barbican.org.uk.
  34. Concert program
  35. "Blackheath Halls' Elijah". Blackheath Halls Opera. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  36. Tim Ashley. "Hallé/Elder – review". the Guardian.
  37. "Archive". bfc.org.uk.
  38. http://tso.stage.mayday.ionata.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Teddy-Sings-Brahms-and-Mahler.pdf Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine p7
  39. "Alnwickian". alnwickian.blogspot.co.uk.
  40. "Barbican - Crouch End Festival Chorus". barbican.org.uk.
  41. Kate Sole. "Review: Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Barbican". Enfield Independent.
  42. "Nottingham Harmonic Choir". nottinghamharmonic.org.
  43. "RPO - Handel's Messiah". RPO. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  44. Stephen Laws (20 November 2016), Classical Spectacular Once Again. 19th November 2016, retrieved 9 October 2017
  45. Steve Jones (1 September 2014), Darley Park Concert 2014 Grant Doyle Starlight Express I am the Starlight (210052), retrieved 9 October 2017
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