Brindley Sherratt

Introduction

Brindley Sherratt's engagements in the 2012/13 season include Sarastro in a new production of Die Zauberflöte for the Netherlands Opera and at Covent Garden; Créon in a new production of Charpentier's Médée for the English National Opera and his role debut as Claggart Billy Budd at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Engagements in future seasons include Pimen Boris Godunov for his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Sarastro for his debut at the Vienna State Opera; Sparafucile Rigoletto, Gremin Eugene Onegin and Oroveso Norma at Covent Garden and his debuts at the the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

He has sung Narbal Les Troyens, Ramfis Aida, Gremin and Sparafucile at Covent Garden; Balducci Benvenuto Cellini with Gergiev and Hobson Peter Grimes with Rattle in Salzburg; Rocco Fidelio and Il Commendatore at the Glyndebourne Festival; Sarastro at the Hamburg State Opera; Banco Macbeth for the Opéra de Bordeaux; Pimen for the Opéra de Nice and Il Commendatore and Claudio Agrippina in Santa Fe.

He has also sung Pogner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg for the Welsh National Opera and at the BBC Proms; Filippo Don Carlo and Fasolt Das Rheingold for Opera North and his many roles at the English National Opera have included Ramfis, Pimen and Fiesco Simon Boccanegra.

In demand on the concert platform he has appeared at the Bregenz, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Three Choirs Festivals and at the BBC Proms.  His recent concert appearances have included the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Pappano; the Hallé Orchestra with Elder; the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Nézet-Séguin; the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées with Langrée; the Swedish Radio Orchestra with Harding; the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nelson; the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Bicket and the Monteverdi Choir with Gardiner.


For an up-to-date biography, please contact Keiron Cooke

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ADAMS
Doctor Atomic (Edward Teller)

BACH
St. Matthew Passion
St. John Passion

BEETHOVEN
Fidelio (Rocco)
Missa Solemnis
Symphony no. 9

BELLINI
Il Pirata (Gofredo)
Norma (Oroveso)

BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini (Pope Clement VII)
L'enfance du Christ (Herod)
Les Troyens (Narbal)
Roméo et Juliette (Frère Laurent)

BRAHMS
Ein Deutsches Requiem

BRITTEN
Albert Herring (Budd)
Billy Budd (Claggart)
Gloriana (Ballad Singer)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom)
Peter Grimes (Hobson / Swallow)
The Rape of Lucretia (Collatinus)

DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande (Arkel)

DONIZETTI:
Imelda de Lambertazzi (Ubaldo)
Maria di Rohan (Visconte of Suze)

JOHNATHAN DOVE
Flight (Immigration Officer)

ELGAR
The Apostles (Judas)
The Dream of Gerontius
Caractacus (Claudius)

FAURE
Requiem

HANDEL   
Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus)
Agrippina (Claudio)
Alcina (Melisso)
Ariodante (Il Re) 
Messiah    
Judas Maccabeus
Solomon (Levite)
Samson    
Semele (Cadmus / Somnus)
Theodora (Valens)

HAYDN
All Masses
The Creation

MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (Caronte)
L’incoronazzione di Poppea (Seneca)

MOZART
All Masses
Requiem
Idomeneo (Voce di Nettuno)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin)
Don Giovanni (Commendatore / Leporello)
La clemenza di Tito (Publio)
Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo)
Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro)

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov (Pimen)
Khovanshchina (Dosifei)

ARVO PÄRT
St John Passion (Jesus)

CHARLIE PIPER
Brook Street

PUCCINI
La bohème (Colline)
La fanciulla del West (Ashby)

ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio)

ROBERT SAXTON
The Wandering Jew (Mephistopheles)

SCHUMANN
Das Paradies und die Peri (Ein Mann / Gazna)

SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony no. 13

STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella

TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (Gremin)

TIPPETT
A Child of our Time
King Priam (title role)

WEILL
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Alaskawolfe Joe)

VERDI
Aida (Ramfis)
Don Carlo (Filippo)
Ernani (Silva)
La Forza del destino (Padre Guardiano)
Luisa Miller (Wurm)
Otello (Montano)
Requiem
Rigoletto (Sparafucile)
Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco)
Il Trovatore (Ferrando)

WAGNER
Der Fliegende Holländer (Daland)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Pogner)
Parsifal (Gurnemantz)
Tristan und Isolde (Marke)
Das Rheingold (Fasolt)

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Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Royal Opera House, London

Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart and featuring a number of Askonas Holt artists.

Programme

Britten: Gloriana

Susan Bullock - Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Toby Spence - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon - Frances Devereux, Lady Essex
Mark Stone - Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal - Penelope, Lady Rich
Jeremy Carpenter - Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley - Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Bevan - Henry Cuffe
Nadine Livingstone - Lady-in-Waiting
Brindley Sherratt - Blind Ballad Singer

Orchestra  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes

Programme

Britten: Billy Budd


Mark Padmore - Captain Vere
Jacques Imbrailo - Billy Budd
Brindley Sherratt - Claggart
Stephen Gadd - Mr Redburn
David Soar - Mr Flint
Darren Jeffery - Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Duncan Rock - The Novice’s Friend

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes

Programme

Britten: Billy Budd


Mark Padmore - Captain Vere
Jacques Imbrailo - Billy Budd
Brindley Sherratt - Claggart
Stephen Gadd - Mr Redburn
David Soar - Mr Flint
Darren Jeffery - Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Duncan Rock - The Novice’s Friend

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes

Programme

Britten: Billy Budd


Mark Padmore - Captain Vere
Jacques Imbrailo - Billy Budd
Brindley Sherratt - Claggart
Stephen Gadd - Mr Redburn
David Soar - Mr Flint
Darren Jeffery - Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Duncan Rock - The Novice’s Friend

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes

Programme

Britten: Billy Budd


Mark Padmore - Captain Vere
Jacques Imbrailo - Billy Budd
Brindley Sherratt - Claggart
Stephen Gadd - Mr Redburn
David Soar - Mr Flint
Darren Jeffery - Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Duncan Rock - The Novice’s Friend

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes

Programme

Britten: Billy Budd


Mark Padmore - Captain Vere
Jacques Imbrailo - Billy Budd
Brindley Sherratt - Claggart
Stephen Gadd - Mr Redburn
David Soar - Mr Flint
Darren Jeffery - Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Duncan Rock - The Novice’s Friend

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis

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Press

Mozart

Die Zauberflöte

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Brindley Sherratt’s Sarastro is one of the best this production has seen. Every note is there, in measured, authoritative, yet tender tones. Hilary Finch, The Times, 17 April 2013
The wonderfully authoritative Brindley Sherratt as Sarastro. Metro, 18 April 2013
Brindley Sherratt’s finely dignified and down-to-earth Sarastro.
Simon Thomas, What's on Stage, 17 April 2013
Brindley Sherratt’s Sarastro remained still and serene... Hannah Sander, Classical Source, 17 April 2013
Brindley Sherratt shines as Sarastro with his sumptuous bass voice...
Sam Smith, Music OHM, 18 April 2013
His voice is the perfect weight for the role and he plumbs the vocal depths without problems. 'O Isis und Osiris' was particularly beautiful. Following on from his excellent Creon in the ENO Medea, Sherratt is having a very successful season indeed.  Sebastian Petit, Opera Britannia, 17 April 2013

Handel (arr. Mendelssohn)

Acis and Galatea

Oxford Philomusica/Darlington (Nimbus CD, 2013)

In 'O ruddier than the cherry', Brindley Sherratt (Polyphemus) is on stupendous form. Malcolm Riley, Gramophone, March 2013

Charpentier

Médée

English National Opera

Brindley Sherratt’s superb, pompous King Creon.

Richard Morrison, The Times, 17 February 2013
Accomplished singing from Brindley Sherratt [as] Creon.
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 17 February 2013
...the imposing Brindley Sherratt...
Matthew Ingleby, Play to See, 16 February 2013
The ever-resonant bass of Brindley Sherratt oozed vocal velvet as Creon, King of Corinth.
Mark Valencia, Classical Source, 16 February 2013
Brindley Sherratt’s warm bass in the role of Creon...
Julia Savage, Bachtrack.com, 18 February 2013
Brindley Sherratt putting in a fine performance as Creon. William Hartston, The Express, 18 February 2013
Creon (Brindley Sherratt, outstanding) is an army commanding officer.

Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 18 February 2013
Brindley Sherratt's sonorous Creon was, as ever, gratifyingly direct. Erica Jeal, Opera, April 2013

Beethoven

Fidelio

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Rocco…comes across as a more important player here, thanks to Brindley Sherratt’s compelling portrayal of a man caught between good and evil. Richard Fairman, The Financial Times, 06 July 2006
…a sympathetic and nicely detailed performance from Brindley Sherratt. Hilary Finch, The Times, 06 July 2006
The supporting cast is excellent too, especially Brindley Sherratt… Warwick Thompson, Bloomberg News, 07 July 2006
…exquisitely sung by Sherratt… Anna Picard, The Independent, 11 July 2006
Brindley Sherratt’s Rocco has the low notes as well as the acting skills on which this kind of reworking relies. David Gutman, The Stage, 06 July 2006
The playing was superb and the singing strength impressive: Brindley Sherratt’s Priam doughty and world-weary. Paul Driver, The Sunday Times, 03 June 2012
Brindley Sherratt portrays the jailer Rocco with subtle depth. John Allison, The Telegraph, 15 July 2006

Berlioz

Les Troyens

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Brindley Sherratt makes an excellent Narbal Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 26 June 2012
[A] fine contribution from Brindley Sherratt as a gnarled old Narbal Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 26 June 2012
[An] outstanding cameo from Brindley Sherratt as wise old Narbal John Allison, The Telegraph, 29 June 2012
...strong support from Brindley Sherratt (Narbal) Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday, 01 July 2012
[An] admirable contribution from Brindley Sherratt, whose Narbal is notable for its mellifluous gravitas... Barry Millington, The Evening Standard, 26 June 2012

Verdi

Simon Boccanegra

English National Opera

Best of all was Brindley Sherratt, whose Fiesco was from start to agonized finish a tour de force of precise diction, musical sensitivity and dramatic intensity. Roger Parker, Opera, August 2011
The star for me easily, and throughout the evening was Brindley Sherratt’s easy bass hitting every note and every mood with the precision of an exocet.  His Fiesco was strong, brooding and so right. Christopher Monk, Musical Opinion, September/October 2011
A superb performance from Brindey Sherratt as Fiesco, displaying a rich, powerful and well-focused bass. Keith Clarke, Musical America, 10 June 2011
Brindley Sherratt is a properly authoritative Fiesco. Rupert Christiansen, the Telegraph, 10 June
...top of the pile vocally, was ENO stalwart Brindley Sherratt, whose Fiesco was powerful and fabulously resonant. Unusually sympathetic even in the Prologue.  Sherratt was most poignant in the final act, particularly in heart-rending duet with the dying Boccanegra. Flora Willson, Musical Criticism, 09 June 2011
Brindley Sherratt's outstanding Fiesco has a voice gravid with festering anguish. Barry Millington, The Evening Standard, 09 June 2011
Top-notch Verdi singing [from] stalwart bass Brindley Sherratt as patrician Fiesco. David Nice, The Art's Desk, 09 June 2011
Sherratt's inky-black bass seeps into Fiesco's darkest internal recesses.
George Hall, The Guardian, 09 June 2011
Brindley Sherratt displayed wonderful vocal control and clarity as Boccanegra's sworn enemy, Jacopo Fiesco. William Hartston, Daily Express, 16 June 2011
The most effective contribution comes from Brindley Sherratt’s Fiesco, whose bass sounds authentically Verdian. Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 09 June 2011
Brindley Sherratt [is on] top form. Warwick Thompson, Bloomberg, 10 June 2011

Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg

Welsh National Opera

Brindley Sherratt must be singled out for his tremendous achievement as Veit Pogner. Mr. Sherratt has a bass-baritone of enjoyable timbre and considerable power, which he deploys with great security as well as sensitivity. His prowess in the role suggests that he, too, may have a fine Sachs within him. James Sohre Opera Today, 11 July 2010
The richest sounds come from Sherratt, whose gorgeous legato makes Act I a treat. Anna Picard, The Independent, 27 June 2010
Brindley Sherratt brought his customary dignity to the role of Veit Pogner. Rian Evans, Classical Source, 28 June 2010
Brindley Sherratt was impressive as Pognor. Michael Kennedy, Opera, August 2010
Brindley Sherratt’s sterling Pognor… Richard Morrison, The Times, 21 June 2010
Brindley Sherratt was a very fine and non-decrepit Pogner. His moments of self doubt about the course he has set were genuinely moving. Sebastian Petit, What's on Stage, 01 July 2010
Brindley Sherratt, noble and intelligent of phrase in his long Act One narrative. David Nice, The Arts Desk, 20 June 2010
Brindley Sherratt makes an exemplary Pognor. George Hall, The Stage, 21 June 2010

Wagner

Tristan und Isolde

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Harding

The intense sounding bass of Brindley Sherratt (King Marke) constituted excellence in this musical dramatic triumph. Thomas Anderberg, Dagens Nyheter, 26 February 2009
Brindley Sherratt supplied us with the most intense sections, especially due to the bass clarinet contributions. Lars Sjöberg, Expressen, 25 February 2009

Recordings

Bellini: Il Pirata

Ludovic Tézier, Carmen Giannattasio, Mark Le Brocq , Victoria Simmonds
London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry - conductor
Opera Rara

Donizetti: Maria di Rohan

José Bros, Christopher Purves, Krassimira Stoyanova, Graeme Broadbent, Loïc Félix
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder – conductor
Opera Rara

Handel: Semele

Rosemary Johsua, Hilary Summers, Stephen Wallace
Early Opera Company, conducted by Christian Curnyn
Chandos

La Partenza

Laura Claycomb, Bruce Ford, Manuela Custer, Roberto Servile, Dominic Natoli, Nicola Rossi Giordano, Dean Robinson, Brindley Sherratt
Opera Rara