Nicholas Sales - Lyric Tenor

Biography/CV

Nicholas's Opera performances for 2005 included his debut for the Royal Opera House; he covered Narciso/Il Turco in Italia and played Journalist/Glazier in Philip Glass's Orphée (Linbury). Elsewhere, work included Ferrando/Così Fan Tutte for Komische Oper Berlin, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni for Theater Lübeck; cover, Gianetto/La Gazza Ladra for Opera North; Tamino, Die Zauberflöte for Diva Opera and Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Opera Project.

2006 work so far has included Grimoaldo/Rodelinda in Halle, with further performances in the Handel Festspiele in June 2006; other forthcoming work includes further performances of Don Giovanni in Lübeck, of Così Fan Tutte for Komische Oper Berlin, and Rodriguez/Don Quichotte in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

2004 Opera work included a critically acclaimed Count Almaviva/The Barber of Seville for Opera North, Ramiro/La Cenerentola and Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Diva Opera (including a performance in the newly-restored Teatro La Fenice, Venice); Paolino/Il Matrimonio Segreto for Les Azuriales Festival, Narciso in Rossini's Il turco in Italia for Buxton Festival and cover, Jupiter/Semele for English National Opera.

Other recent opera work has included Count Almaviva/The Barber of Seville and Ferrando/Così Fan Tutte for The Opera Project, cover, Paolino/Il Matrimonio Segreto for Opera North's, Bastien in Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne and Fernando in Haydn's L'isola disabitata for English Pocket Opera, Paolino/Il Matrimonio Segreto for the Les Azuriales Festival, Nemorino/L'elisir D'amore for Midland Music Makers Opera, and several of the lead tenor roles for The Carl Rosa Opera Company.

Oratorio work includes most of the lead tenor roles performing at major venues throughout the UK, most recently Handel's Messiah at The Royal Hall, Harrogate; Mendelssohn's Elijah at Ripon Cathedral, Haydn's Creation in Birmingham's Symphony Hall, Beethoven's Choral Symphony at Southampton's Guildhall, Elijah at Harrow School, and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Dorchester Abbey amongst others. As Narciso in Il Turco In Italia - Buxton Festival 2004

His extensive concert experience has seen him perform throughout the UK and Europe including two large-scale concerts in 2002 in which he was guest tenor with the National Festival Orchestra and Nottingham Festival Orchestra and chorus, performing the music of Mario Lanza.

He was delighted to be invited to travel to Riga, Latvia in October 2004 to sing the role of Don Ramiro for two performances of La Cenerentola with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and soloists. Other concert work has included a trip to Tokyo with Pavilion Opera and opera galas in Guernsey, Brussels and London, and in August 2003 he had the pleasure and privilege to meet and to sing for Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras!

Lyric tenor