Dominic Barrand

Baritone

Dominic plays the role of Don Andres de Ribeira in Opera South’s February 2010 production La Périchole and is also singing at the New Year Party concert. His previous roles in Opera South productions include Sir Tristram in Martha (February 2009), Dr Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love (February 2007), and Falstaff in Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (February 2006).

Dominic studied singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has gone on to sing for many opera companies throughout the UK including The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Opera Holland Park, the Royal Opera House and at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Operatic roles he has performed include Tonio in I Pagliacci for Chelmsford Opera; Colline in La Bohème for European Chamber Opera; Donner in Das Rheingold for Edinburgh Players Opera; Falke in Die Fledermaus for First Act Opera; Mephistopheles in Faust for Northern Opera; Paolo in Simon Boccanegra and Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte for Opera UK; Leporello, Masetto, and the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto, and Dr Miracle in Les Contes d’Hoffmann Scarpia in Tosca both for Pavilion Opera and for Kentish Opera; Njegus in Die Lustige Witwe, and Ferrando in Il Travatore for Pavilion Opera; Ramfis in Aida and Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata for Kentish Opera; Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte; Peachum in The Beggars’ Opera; Phorbes in Alcione; Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro; Silva in Ernani; Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Aldeburgh Festival; Dick Dead-Eye in HMS Pinafore, Pooh-Bah in The Mikado, and Sergeant in The Pirates of Penzance with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company; Oracolo in Telemacus He in Dido and Aeneas at the English Bach Festival; Billy Jack-rabbit in La Fanciulla del West with Opera Holland Park; and Zuniga in Carmen with Opera Brava; Mephistopheles in Faust with Northern Opera; Paolo in Simon Boccanegra with Opera UK. Dominic’s concert work includes The Hand of Bridge (Barber), Die Schöpfung (Haydn), Liebesliederwalzer (Brahms), Songs of the Fleet (C. V. Stanford) at Southwell Minster; Hunding in Die Walkure (Wagner) in Antwerp, Utrecht and The Hague; Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecille (Gounod); a semi-staged review of Ivor Novello works entitled We’ll Gather Lilacs at the Bridewell Theatre; In terra pax (Finzi); and Fantasia on Christmas Carol (Vaughan Williams).

Future engagements include Aida at the Royal Opera House and Lucia di Lammermoor for Pavilion Opera.