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Giles Davies
Baritone
Giles studied at the Purcell School of Music, and on a
scholarship at the RCM with Norman Bailey. He was a prize-winner in the 1993
Overseas League, the 1994 Tillett Trust, and the 1999 AESS.
In concert he has recorded for the BBC (Schumann’s Dichterliebe at the
Wigmore Hall), and as a soloist has appeared with conductors including Richard
Hickox (A Sea Symphony/Dido and Aeneas) Philip Pickett (Monteverdi’s
Vespers) Trevor Pinnock (Handel’s Apollo and Dafne); Mahler’s
Kindertotenlieder (Ballet Rambert) and London Mozart Players.
As a young actor Giles appeared as Puck in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream at the ROH, and since then his operatic roles have included Figaro in
Rossini’s Barber of Seville (Scottish Opera, English Pocket Opera) Dr
Kolenaty in Janŕcek’s Makropoulos Case (SO), Schaunard in La Boheme
(SO), the Church Parables of Britten (Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg), Pish
Tush in The Mikado and Strephon in Iolanthe (Carl Rosa Opera).
In 2004 he created the title role in The Piano Tuner (Osbourne/Holden),
for Music Theatre Wales, receiving critical acclaim in the national press.
(“commanding”, “outstanding”, “sympathetic”, “rich and smooth toned”).
Engagements for 2005-2006 included Papageno in The Magic Flute in the
West End of London, (Epoc) and Love's Labyrinth (Opera Restor'd) at the
Wigmore Hall. Giles also appeared onscreen as John Goss, in Anthony Britten’s
new film on the life of the English songwriter Peter Warlock, and made his
Italian debut in Montepulciano, in Henze’s Das Wundertheater and Kurt
Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel, broadcast live by Rai Radio.
Plans for 2007 include an album of English and German song for Divine Art
Records with Steven Devine and the Goss Male Quartet, Leporello in Don
Giovanni for the New English Chamber Opera, and Patience with the
Carl Rosa Opera Company.
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