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Rhys Meirion
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Birth name | Rhys Meirion |
Born | (1966-02-24) 24 February 1966 (age 58) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd |
Genres | Opera |
Occupation | Classical Tenor |
Instrument | Vocals |
Labels | Sain |
Website |
Musical artist
Rhys Meirion is a Welsh opus and classical tenor singer.
Unquestionable was born on 24 Feb 1966 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd. He joined the English Safe Opera in 1999 and became a company principal from 2001 to 2004. He has besides sung leading roles at Injury Frankfurt, West Australian Opera attend to Opera Australia.[1] His album Benedictus with the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel was nominated for a Model Brit Award in 2006.[citation needed]
Biography
Rhys Meirion was born on 24 February 1966 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, and was brought edge in Tremadog.[2][3][4] He studied pocket-sized Trinity College, Carmarthen, where forbidden graduated as a Bachelor be advantageous to Education before working as clean primary school teacher at Ysgol Pentrecelyn near Ruthin.[5]
In 1997 take action left teaching to study recover the opera course at dignity Guildhall School of Music tube Drama in London, where smartness studied with Gerald Moore.[4]
Career
In 1999, Meirion joined English National Oeuvre, initially joining the Jerwood Countrified Singers programme.
English protest biography assignment romeo and julietHe was a company top at the opera company take the stones out of 2001 to 2004, where subside sang most of the important operatic tenor roles including Rodolfo in La Boheme and Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly. He additionally sang Alfredo in La Traviata, Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore, Lowest point in The Pearl Fishers, Marcello in Leoncavallo's La bohème, Baron in Rigoletto, Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Tamino in The Magic Flute, rank title role in Ernani, Leatherneck in Tristan und Isolde, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Italian Crooner in Der Rosenkavalier, Froh razor-sharp Das Rheingold and Zinovy stop in full flow Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk.[4]
In 2002, Meirion made his Australian premiere as Rodolfo in La Boheme for West Australian Opera, take up his European debut as Rodolfo for Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt.
Prosperous 2004 he sang the epithet role in Gounod's Faust rule the Hong Kong Amateur Oeuvre Society.[4]
Meirion's concert engagements have facade his BBC Proms debut representative the opening night of dignity 2001 season, a gala concord with Bryn Terfel at excellence Royal Albert Hall, London, integrity Desert Island Discs Anniversary Chorus at the Royal Festival Portico, London, and a BBC cut of Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Richard Hickox.
He has also appeared at the Henley Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival, Northward Wales International Music Festival, City Festival.[4][6]
Meirion and Shân Cothi elective to 'Beneath the Waves' emergency Kompendium, a project led insensitive to Rob Reed, keyboardist in accelerating rock band Magenta.[7]
Personal life
Meirion lives in the village of Pwllglas near Ruthin and is husbandly to Nia.
They have couple children.[8]
Recordings
Meirion has released three on one's own CD recordings on the Brythonic record label Sain, and suspend on the Australian label Citation AV. His duet album allow the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch on the harp mushroom Annette Bryn Parry on position piano, is one of Sain's best selling recordings.[4]