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Canadian baritone Gerald Finley began singing as a chorister in Ottawa before completing his musical studies in the UK at the Royal College of Music, King’s College, Cambridge, and the National Opera Studio. After his initial appearances at Glyndebourne in the Mozart baritone repertoire, he now appears in a variety of leading roles at the world’s opera houses including London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Salzburg, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. His Don Giovanni has been seen in Vienna, Prague, Rome, New York, Paris, Tel Aviv and London. He has created the lead roles in major premières: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic), Harry Heegan (The Silver Tassie), Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Jaufre Rudel (L’amour de loin). He played Owen Wingrave in the Channel 4 film. His most recent engagements include Onegin (Eugene Onegin) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic) at the Metropolitan Opera New York, and the Count(Figaro at the Salzburg Festival His discography includes work with Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur and Vladimir Jurowski. With Hyperion Records his releases include a highly acclaimed disc of Schumann's Dichterliebe, and the Gramophone award for Barber songs with Julius Drake. He has been twice nominated as Gramophone's Artist of the Year in 2006 and 2009