 Biography The British born tenor Brian Galliford studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 1991 he made his home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His operatic repertoire includes Herodes Salome (Vorarlberger Landestheater Bregenz), Piet vom Faß Le Grand Macabre (Komische Oper Berlin, Vlaamse Opera, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon, Nationale Reisopera), The Rector and Bob Boles Peter Grimes (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Nederlandse Opera, Nationale Reisopera), Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos (Welsh National Opera), Graf Albert Die tote Stadt (Nederlandse Opera), Eisslinger and Zorn Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Nederlandse Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Vlaamse Opera), Monostatos Die Zauberflöte (Nationale Reisopera) and Fatty Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Nationale Reisopera). As regular guest artist at the Netherlands Opera he has also sung in Die Soldaten, Der Rosenkavalier, Boris Godunov, Capriccio and Salome. He has been a guest artist at the Glyndebourne Festival (Betrothal in a Monastery), Bregenzer Festspiele (The Cunning Little Vixen), Nationale Reisopera (Idomeneo, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino), Opera Zuid (I pagliacci) and Taller Amsterdam (Weisse Rose, Los Heraldos) as well as Old Deuteronomy in the 1992/93 Dutch production of Cats. He has been involved in a number of world premieres including Cuentos de la Alhambra (José Luis Greco), Rixt (Henk Alkema) and Los Heraldos (Ilse van de Kasteelen) as well as a television film production of Udo Zimmermann's Weisse Rose. Brian Galliford has sung with various conductors including Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Jurowski, Carlo Rizzi, Kenneth Montgomery, Ingo Metzmacher, Mark Wigglesworth, Hartmut Haenchen, Peter Eötvös, Luca Pfaff, Edo de Waart, Reinbert de Leeuw, Valery Gergiev and David Parry and worked with such directors as Willy Decker, Harry Kupfer, Tim Albery, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christine Mielitz, Christopher Alden, Daniel Slater and the late Ernst-Theo Richter. In July 2004 he made his British debut at the Royal Opera as The Rector in Willy Decker and François de Carpentries' production of Peter Grimes conducted by Antonio Pappano. Following serious illness, Mr. Galliford will be resuming his singing career next season. |
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