News & Reviews
Festen wins at The Olivier Awards
Festen has won Best New Opera Production at the 2025 Olivier Awards.
Premiered at the Royal Opera House in February 2025 this new opera was composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage, with a libretto by Lee Hall and directed by Richard Jones.
Gerald Finley created the role of Helge in this new production continuing many years of collaboration with Mark-Anthony Turnage having previously stared in his operas The Silver Tassie and Anna Nicole.
Elijah Album Release
Gerald Finley’s performance of Elijah with Sir Antonio Pappano, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra has now been released by LSO Live.
This live performance was recorded at the Barbican in January 2024 with Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Dame Sarah Connolly and Allan Clayton.
Kammersänger of the Bayerische Staatsoper
The Bavarian State Opera announced that Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley has been awarded the prestigious title of Kammersänger. The ceremony took place after a performance of Parsifal at the National-theatre, in which Finley sang the role of Amfortas.
Finley has been closely associated with the Bayerische Staatsoper since his house debut as Don Giovanni at the 2011 Munich Opera Festival. He will continue to be a regular guest at the Bayerische Staatsoper. In their next season, he will sing the title roles of the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro and the title role of Macbeth. He will also present a song recital.
Gerald Finley joins other distinguished singers who have been awarded the title of Kammersänger at the Bavarian State Opera, a list that includes Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme, Plácido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Diana Damrau, Waltraud Meier and others.
Biography
Gerald Finley
Grammy-award winning Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is a leading singer and dramatic interpreter of his generation, with acclaimed performances at the world’s major opera and concert venues and award-winning recordings on CD and DVD with major labels in a wide variety of repertoire. Mr Finley’s career is devoted to the wide range of vocal art, encompassing opera, orchestral and song, collaborating with the greatest orchestras and conductors of our time.
He began with the baritone roles of Mozart; his Don Giovanni and Count in Le nozze di Figaro have been heard live throughout the world and on DVD. Recent signature roles include Guillaume Tell, J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adam’s Dr. Atomic, and Jaufré Rudel in Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. He created Harry Heegan in Mark Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie.
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“Mr. Finley has long been recognized as a recitalist of rare versatility, a concert artist of the first rank and an opera singer of distinction in a broad repertory”
– The New York Times
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