Richard Angas studied in London and Vienna. He worked for many years in Germany and at English National Opera where he was a company principal for fifteen years.
Plans for 2012 and beyond include include Schigolch and Animal Tamer Lulu‚ Parson The Cunning Little Vixen and Old Brahmin Wagner Dream with Welsh National Opera‚ Duke The Merchant of Venice and Le Père Au Monde (Théâtre de la Monnaie)‚ Majordomo / Fouquier-Tinville Andrea Chenier (Bregenz Festival)‚ title role in Shostakovich’s Orango (Philharmonia Orchestra)‚ Old Adam Ruddigore and Swallow Peter Grimes (Opera North)‚ Shadbolt The Yeomen of the Guard (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra‚ Philharmonia Orchestra and RTE Concert Orchestra under John Wilson) and Wagner Dream at the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recent engagements include Policeman/General The Portrait (Bregenz Festival and Opera North)‚ Alterer Passagier/Steward The Passenger and Sacristan Tosca (Bregenz)‚ The Mikado and Alcindoro (ENO) Trial by Jury and Gilbert & Sullivan Highlights with the RTE Concert Orchestra.
He has appeared as Pistol Falstaff (Garsington)‚ Doctor Vanessa by Samuel Barber (Lyric Hammersmith)‚ High Priest of Baal Nabucco‚ and the title roles in The Mikado and Don Pasquale (ENO)‚ Jakovlevich The Nose and La Cuisinière L’Amour des Trois Oranges (Netherlands Opera)‚ The Commander From the House of the Dead (Opéra du Rhin‚ Strasbourg)‚ Aga A Greek Passion by Martinu (Bregenz Festival‚ ROH and in Brno)‚ Abbot Curlew River (Trento and Pisa)‚ Kommandant From the House of the Dead (Palermo)‚ Mikado (La Fenice‚ Venice and Reisopera)‚ Angelotti‚ The Bonze and King Aida (Raymond Gubbay/ Royal Albert Hall)‚ Old Arab/Sailor/Nightwatchman Julietta (Opera North‚ Ravenna and Prague)‚ Parson The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera North and Barcelona)‚ Swallow Peter Grimes (Opera North and Zurich)‚ Drebyednyetsov Cheryomushki (Opera North and Bregenz)‚ Water Sprite Rusalka‚ Basilio Barber of Seville‚ Waldner Arabella‚ Cook Love for Three Oranges‚ Tree/Armchair L’enfant et les Sortilleges and Old Adam Ruddigore (Opera North)‚ Pooh-Bah Mikado and Private Willis Iolanthe (Grange Park Opera) and Count Luisa Miller and Dikoj Kat’a Kabanova (Opera Holland Park).
Further roles include Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte‚ Osmin Die Entführung aus dem Serail‚ Bartolo Figaro Sarastro/Speaker Zauberflöte‚ König Marke Tristan‚ Daland Flying Dutchman‚ König Heinrich Lohengrin‚ Ochs Der Rosenkavalier‚ Pimen Boris Godunov‚ Doctor Wozzeck‚ Kecal The Bartered Bride‚ Mephistopheles Faust‚ Jupiter Orpheus and Arkel Pélleas et Mélisande.
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