RICHARD REAVILLE (Tenor)

Richard Reaville is renowned for his extensive repertoire and versatility. He began singing with Thelma Gilmore in Suffolk and entered the Royal Northern College of Music in 1982 to study with John Cameron and later in London with Iris Dell’Acqua and Nino Di Stefani in Brussels.

His solo operatic engagements have included work with the English National Opera in Britten’s Billy Budd, the Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Company, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, the European Chamber Opera and opera festivals in France, Germany and Finland including the Henze Biennial Festival performing in his opera The English Cat in Gütersloh and Berlin, and the Nilsia Festival in Finland in a concert performance of Joonas Kokkonen’s opera The Last Temptations.

Richard Reaville is in demand throughout Europe performing a wide range of concert and oratorio repertoire. His engagements include work with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the English String Orchestra, the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine, the Kuopio and Jyväskylä orchestras of Finland, the Arhus and Randers Orchestras of Denmark, the Örebro Orchestra of Sweden, and the Belgium National Orchestra.

Works have included Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the Evangelist and arias in both of the Bach Passions, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings performed with Daniel Catalanotti, principle horn of l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, the world première of Anthony Girard‘s Le Rêve est notre Espoir with l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and much of the standard repertoire of Handel, Haydn and Mozart. Radio and TV broadcasts include Britten’s Billy Budd for BBC2 Television, Danish Radio in a performance of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Finnish Television in a programme of opera arias and duets also featuring Karita Mattila, and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Recordings include Britten’s Billy Budd for a BBC video, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Jihlava Choir and Ostrava Orchestra of the Czech Republic, and Stuart Ward’s A Celebration of Gods, recorded with the Divertimenti of London.

Future performances include Handel’s Messiah with the Händel Förderverein in Halle, Germany, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, and oratorio work throughout the UK. (www.daviesmusic.org.uk/singers.htm)