Barihunk Bradley Travis singing Masetto opposite two fellow barihunks

Bradley Travis

We introduced Bradley Travis back in October when he won the Leonard Ingrams award. This Spring he'll be singing Masetto opposite fellow barihunk George von Bergen in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. The company will begin this year's tour at the Hackney Empire on March 5th and perform through June 10th, when they wrap up at the Sands Centre in Carlisle. They will also be performing Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride and Donizetti's Pia de'Tolomei. The entire tour schedule is available online.

Shortly after the tour, Travis will join another barihunk, Jacques Imbrailo, for Don Giovanni with the Classical Opera Company at Cadogan Hall in London's Chelsea district. The June 17th performance will be the company's first production of Don Giovanni in their history.

Travis was born in Cheshire and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He recently graduated from the Royal College of Music International Opera School (RCMIOS) where he won the Eric Joseph Shilling Award for Opera.

Bradley Travis sings Masetto's "Ho capito...":

Operatic roles performed include Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Don Iñigo Gomez in Ravel's L’heure espagnole, Lord Ellington in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, Ottone in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea all for the RCMIOS. He has also appeared as Count Robinson in The Secret Marriage for British Youth Opera who presented him with the Basil A. Turner Award, Minos Arianna in Handel's Creta, Argenio Imeneo under Laurence Cummings for the London Handel Festival, Alidoro in Rossini's La Cenerentola for Mananan Festival Opera and Lesbus in Handel's Agrippina for Iford Opera. 

He recently made his Opera North début singing Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and sang the Fireman in Šimon Voseček's Biedermann and the Arsonists at Independent Opera.

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Vittorio Prato, Malte Roesner & Cyril Rovery

 

Bradley Travis wins Leonard Ingrams Foundation Award

 

Bradley Travis as Mozart's Figaro (right) at the Royal College of Music

British bass-barihunk Bradley Travis is one of two winners of the 8th Annual Leonard Ingrams Foundation Award, along with soprano Llio Evans. The award honors the memory of Garsington Opera’s founder and is intended to nurture the best young artists involved in the creative process of bringing opera to the stage.

Last year, Travis won the Garsington Opera Helen Clarke Award in recognition of his contribution and musical skill during their 2014 season. He performed a number of small roles in their production of Britten's Death in Venice.

Travis has performed Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Opera North, as well as a number of roles at the Royal College of Music International Opera School, including Don Iñigo Gomez in Ravel's L’heure espagnole, Lord Ellington Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne and Ottone in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea.  Along with Simon Lepper, he made a recording of Ancel Newton’s song cycle Doomed Youth.

From November 14-19, he appears as the Fireman in Voseček's Biedermann and the Arsonists with  Independent Opera. From March 11-May 31,  he performs Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni with the English Touring Opera. The performance also features fellow barihunk George Von Bergen in the title role. 

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Introducing British Bass-Barihunk Bradley Travis

Bradley Travis

British bass-barihunk Bradley Travis was introduced to us via Twitter. He's just wrapped up a run performing the roles of the German Father, a youth and the Priest in St. Mark's in Britten's Death in Venice at Garsington Opera.

Upcoming performances include Lesbus in Handel's Agrippina at Iford Opera from July 29-August 5, the Fireman in Voseček's Biedermann and the Arsonists at the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler's Wells and Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni with English Touring Opera next Spring. 

He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music where he was the Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholar, winner of the Alexander Young Award and a finalist in the Frederic Cox Award.  He recently graduated from the Royal College of Music International Opera School where he won the Eric Joseph Shilling Award for Opera. He also received a Sir Gordon Palmer Scholarship supported by the South Square Trust Award.

He has performed Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Opera North, as well as a number of roles at the Royal College of Music International Opera School, including Don Iñigo Gomez in Ravel's L’heure espagnole, Lord Ellington Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne and Ottone in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea.  He recently completed a recording with Simon Lepper of Ancel Newton’s song cycle Doomed Youth.

 
Most recently he received the Garsington Opera's Helen Clarke Award in recognition of his contribution and musical skill during their 2014 season.

Morgan Pearse's "Crack" Performance in Handel's Imeneo

Morgan Pearse and Louise Alder

Barihunk Morgan Pearse showed a little crack in his performance in the title role of Handel's Imeneo with the London Handel Festival. After receiving a tip form a reader, we introduced the Aussie hunk to readers in November 2011. We recently featured him again when he continued the barihunk winning streak by taking the top prize at the Royal Over-Seas League competition.

The production opens tonight at the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music in London with three additional performances. Pearse will perform tonight and on March 13th, with Luke D. Williams alternating on March 12th and 14th. The role of Argenio is being alternated between Timothy Nelson and Bradley Travis, two attractive singers who we need to start keeping an eye on. Tickets and additional information are available online.

Australian Barihunk Morgan Pearse in Imeneo

The Italian-language libretto of Imeneo was adapted from poet Silvio Stampiglia's text. Handel had begun composition in September 1738, but did not complete the score until 1740. The opera received its first performance at the Lincoln's Inn Fields in London on November 22, 1740, and received another performance on December 13th. Handel then revised the score, and this revised version received concert performances in Dublin, on 24 and 31 March 1742. The first modern production was at the Halle Opera House on 13 March 1960, conducted by Horst-Tanu Margraf.

Listen to Imeneo in its entirety with John Ostendorf, bass-baritone. Rosmene, Julianne Baird, soprano. Tirinto, D'Anna Fortunati, mezzo-soprano. Clomiri, Beverly Hoch, soprano. Argenio, Jan Opalach, bass. Brewer Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Rudolph Palmer.: