Timothy Robinson

Introduction

Having been a member of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Timothy Robinson has also appeared with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Paris Opera. He made his debuts with the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras under Sir Simon Rattle.

He has sung Captain Vere in ‘Billy Budd’ for both English National Opera, Hamburg Opera and in Bilbao. He sang Peter Quint for Leipzig Opera, Salzburg, Innsbruck Opera and English National Opera, Aschenbach ('Death in Venice') in Salzburg and Walther 'Tannhauser' at the Royal Opera House.

This season he returns to both English National Opera for The Pilgrims Progress and Glyndebourne Festival for Le Nozze di Figaro.

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Repertoire

OPERA REPERTOIRE

BERNSTEIN
Wonderful Town: Lonigan

BEETHOVEN
Fidelio: Jaquino

BRITTEN
Billy Budd: Captain Vere
Death in Venice: Aschenbach
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lysander / Snout *
The Rape of Lucretia: Male Chorus
The Turn of the Screw: Peter Quint
Peter Grimes: The Rector

HANDEL
Alcina: Oronote
Semele: Jupiter
Rodelinda: Grimoaldo
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Acis and Galatea: Damon

JANACEK
Katja Kabanova: Kudrjash
The Makropulos Case: Janek
The Cunning Little Vixen: Schoolmaster

MARTINU
The Greek Passion: Yannakos

MOZART
Cosi Fan Tutte: Ferrando
Don Giovanni: Don Ottavio
La Clemenza di Tito: Tito
La Finta Giardiniera: Il Podesta
The Marriage of Figaro: Basilio / Don Curzio
The Magic Flute: Monostatos

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov: Schuiski / Simpleton

PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly: Goro
Tosca: Spoletta
Turandot: Pong

SMETANA
The Bartered Bride: Vasek

STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos: Scaramuccio
Salome: 3rd Jew

STRAVINSKY
Oedipus Rex: Shepherd
Renard: The Cockerel

TIPPETT
King Priam: Hermes

TCHAIKOVSKY:
Eugene Onegin: Triquet *

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Pilgrim's Progress: Interpreter, 2nd Shepherd, Mr By-Ends, Usher

VERDI:
Don Carlos: Il Conte di Lerma
Falstaff: Fenton / Bardolph *
Otello: Roderigo
Rigoletto: Borsa
Traviata: Gastone

WAGNER
Das Rheingold: Froh
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Moser
Tristan und Isolde: Hirt / Seeman

*In preparation

Schedule

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro returns, with a new cast of singers, including Timothy Robinson in the role of Don Basilio.

Full information on this run of performances is available here

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Press

Britten, Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings : 13 March 2013

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Gruber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

"Timothy Robinson the ecstatic tenor, rapturously at ease with Britten's high-lying vocal writing. Bliss."

Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 14 March 2013

Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress, November 2012

English National Opera

"Two experienced character tenors, Timothy Robinson and Colin Judson, steal their scenes as Mr By-Ends and Lord Lechery."
Hugh Canning / Sunday Times / 11 November 2012

"ENO favourites Ann Murray and Timothy Robinson twitter and titillate in the multiple leading roles."

Anna Picard / Independent on Sunday / 11 November 2012

"Wood apart, the plaudits must go to conductor Martyn Brabbins and his wonderful brass, to the chorus, and to the Protean Timothy Robinson, who lights up every scene in which he appears."

Michael Wood / The Independent / 6 November 2012

"several of ENO’s brightest young hopes – Benedict Nelson and Kitty Whately among them – complement expert old-timers such as Timothy Robinson and Ann Murray in a variety of minor roles." Rupert Christiansen / The Telegraph / 6 November 2012

"Roland Wood sings a steady but uncharismatic Pilgrim, assisted by Benedict Nelson’s Evangelist and a multiple-character tour de force by Timothy Robinson."

Andrew Clarke / Financial Times / 6 November 2012

Le Nozze di Figaro - March 2012

WNO, Cardiff

'Timothy Robinson's Basilio made a marked impression as he wheeled his way through the action in a sinewy and well-timed manner.'

Bethan Dudley-Fryar / Opera Brittania / 7 March 2012

Recordings

BERNSTEIN: Wonderful Town

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group / Rattle

BEETHOVEN: Complete Folksongs

Malcolm Martineau

BRITTEN: Paul Bunyan

Royal Opera House / Hicox

BOYCE: Secular Masque

Hanover Band / Lea-Cox

BACH: Magnificat

Northern Chamber Orchestra / Ward