Dominic Barrand
Baritone
DOMINIC BARRAND (Dr Dulcamara in Opera South’s The Elixir of Love, February 2007)) studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and took the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Operatic roles he has performed include Sarastro in Die Zauberflote, Peachum in The Beggars’ Opera, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Silva in Ernani with Cadoxton Opera; Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Aldeburgh Festival; Dick Dead-Eye in HMS Pinafore, Pooh-Bah in The Mikado, and Sergeant in The Pirates of Penzance with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company; Oracolo in Telemacus and He in Dido and Aeneas at the English Bach Festival; Billy Jack-rabbit in La Fanciulla del West with Opera Holland Park; Ramphis in Aida and Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata with Kentish Opera; Leporello, Masetto, and Commendatore in Don Giovanni and Njegus in Die Lustige Witwe, Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto, and Dr Miracle in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Ferrando in Il Trovatore with Pavilion Opera; and Zuniga in Carmen with Opera Brava.
Dominic played Falstaff in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in February 2006 with Opera South and, since then, Mephistopheles in Faust with Northern Opera and Paolo in Simon Boccanegra with Opera UK.
Dominic’s concert work includes The Hand of Bridge (Barber), Die Schöpfung (Haydn), Liebesliederwalzer (Brahms), Songs of the Fleet (C. V. Stanford) at Southwell Minster; Hunding in Die Walkure in Antwerp, Utrecht and The Hague; Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecille (Gounod); and a semi-staged review of Ivor Novello works entitled We’ll Gather Lilacs at the Bridewell Theatre.