British baritone Henry Neill is an international opera singer based in Austria. Current and future engagements will see him perform as Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for Longborough Festival Opera, return to Theater an der Wien (Alice in Wonderland), appear as a soloist at the Quincena Musical festival in Donostia-San Sebastian and perform the role of Aeneas with Le Poeme Harmonique in Paris.
Since leaving his position in the ensemble at Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar (2017/19), Henry has performed at European Theaters and festivals including Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Grand Théâtre Genève, Opera National de Lorraine, Opera North, Theater Aachen and Nouvel Opera Fribourg.
Recent highlights include Sam/Junior (Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place) for Royal Ballet and Opera, Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte) for Opera North and Sam (The Pirates of Penzance) for English National Opera.
Previous roles include Papageno (Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Cosi), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Conte/Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Edmund Bertram (Mansfield Park - Dove) , Marchese (Traviata), Quince/Starveling (Midsummer night's Dream), Smirnov (The Bear - Walton), Marco (Gianni Schicchi). He has performed as a guest soloist with Grange Festival Opera, Theater Erfurt, Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera, Clonter Opera and West Green House Opera.
He was the winner of the 2016 Royal Overseas Singer’s Prize along with several national awards including a Sybill Tutton Opera Award and a Yeomanship at the Worshipful company of Musicians.
Notable performances include recitals at Wigmore Hall with Somi Kim, Recitals at the International Holland Festival, "Serenade to music" with the Birmingham symphony orchestra, appearances on BBC radio 3's In Tune, Butterworth’s ‘Six songs from A Shropshire Lad’ with Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder, a recital with Simon Lepper at the North Norfolk Music Festival, recitals at the Oxford Lieder festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Two Moors Festival and appearances on Dutch Radio 4 performing song.
Henry is represented by Athole Still Artists - https://www.atholestill.com/
Credit @Justin Kim