Henry Waddington

Bass-baritone Henry Waddington reputedly sings regularly at the UK’s top opera venues and major European companies, including Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Opera House, Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Garsington, Opéra Comique, Glyndebourne on Tour, and Grange Park Opera. Recent and upcoming roles include Barone di Kelbar in Un giorno di regno (Garsington), Man at Window/Old Man Youth/Beggar in Julietta, Jupiter in Castor and Pollux, Sacristan in Tosca, Lieutenant Ratcliffe in Billy Budd (ENO), Sacristan, Spinellocchio in Gianni Schicchi and Dr Kolenaty in The Makropoulos Case (Royal Opera House), Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier (Norwegian National Opera, Opera North and Staatstheater Nürnberg), Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park), Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne on Tour and WNO), Lieutenant Ratcliffe (Dutch National Opera), Pallante (Liceu Barcelona), Kothner in Die Meistersinger (Glyndebourne), Tragar in Peter Grimes (Aldeburgh), Alcindoro/Benoît in La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall), Pastor Oberlin in Jakob Lenz (Oper Stuttgart and La Monnaie), and concert performances in Wozzeck (Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen). Henry Waddington’s extensive repertoire with Opera North features principal roles such as Falstaff, Colline, Sacristan, First Workman (Wozzeck), Geronimo (The Secret Marriage), Cyrus (Croesus), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Lodovico (Otello), Publio (La clemenza di Tito), Caleb (Joshua), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), and Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola).