Robert Lloyd
Robert Andrew Lloyd (born 2 March 1940 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England) is a British bass singer.
Lloyd was educated at Keble College, Oxford and studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus, and made his professional debut with University College Opera in 1969 as Don Fernando in Leonore, the early version of Fidelio. From 1969 to 1972 he was Principal Bass with the Sadler"s Wells Opera Company (now English National Opera), and from 1972 to 1982 was a member of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
He has sung leading roles at Glyndebourne and with other British opera companies, and has appeared in major opera houses throughout the world. He sings roles in British, German, Italian, French and Russian works (Claggart and Superintendant Budd in Benjamin Britten"s Billy Budd and Albert Herring respectively, the Priest and Angel of Agony in Edward Elgar"s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius; Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Gurnemanz in Parsifal, Fasolt in Das Rheingold; Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Philippe II in Don Carlos; Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande, Comte des Grieux in Manon, Narbal in Les Troyens; the title-role in Boris Godunov).
Lloyd was educated at Keble College, Oxford and studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus, and made his professional debut with University College Opera in 1969 as Don Fernando in Leonore, the early version of Fidelio. From 1969 to 1972 he was Principal Bass with the Sadler"s Wells Opera Company (now English National Opera), and from 1972 to 1982 was a member of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
He has sung leading roles at Glyndebourne and with other British opera companies, and has appeared in major opera houses throughout the world. He sings roles in British, German, Italian, French and Russian works (Claggart and Superintendant Budd in Benjamin Britten"s Billy Budd and Albert Herring respectively, the Priest and Angel of Agony in Edward Elgar"s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius; Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Gurnemanz in Parsifal, Fasolt in Das Rheingold; Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Philippe II in Don Carlos; Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande, Comte des Grieux in Manon, Narbal in Les Troyens; the title-role in Boris Godunov).
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