James Rutherford

One of Britain's finest young artists, James Rutherford has appeared as Mozart's Figaro for the Paris Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, and Glyndebourne on Tour. He has sung with the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, the Deutsche Staatsoper , Berlin and at the Montpellier and Innsbruck Festivals and has recently sung Donner Das Rheingold with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle and also for the Royal Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Jokanaan in Montpellier, Kothner at the Edinburgh Festival and Leporello for Scottish Opera. He is the winner of the Inaugural Seattle Opera International Wagner Competition held in August 2006.

This season his engagements include Wolfram (“Tannhauser”) for San Francisco Opera, Nick Shadow (“The Rakes Progress”) with the CBSO, Britten’s “War Requiem” in Stockholm and concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sir Charles Mackerras and the Halle Orchestra and Mark Elder.

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