{"id":187,"date":"2014-01-17T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:19:33","slug":"thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/our-singers\/thomas","title":{"rendered":"Thomas, bass-baritone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2202 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartleyvoices.co.uk\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hire bass-baritone Thomas\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/>Thomas, bass-baritone, graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the English Song Prize. Since graduation with distinction in 2009 he has performed the title role in many productions including Rossini&#8217;s Il Signor Bruschino for British Youth Opera and Marcello and Schaunard in OperaUpClose&#8217;s Olivier Award-winning La Boheme at the Soho Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><div class='content-column three_fourth'><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qX3AozJxmQE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"1\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"left\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> Previously a choral scholar at New College, Oxford, bass-baritone Thomas has continued a successful performing career as Dulcamara L&#8217;Elisir d&#8217;amore, Alidoro La Cenerentola, CIA director Manifest Destiny 2011 both for OperaUpClose, Marullo Rigoletto (Bury Court Opera), Lesbo Agrippina (Barber Opera), Frank Die Fledermaus (Bloomsbury Opera), Morales Carmen (Kentish Opera), Mr Slender\/Bardolph in Salieri&#8217;sFalstaff and Erimante in Cavalli&#8217;s Erismena both for New Chamber Opera, and Benoit\/Alcindoro La Boheme for British Youth Opera once again. Other past roles include Belcore, Onegin, Count Almaviva and Mozart&#8217;s Figaro; other operatic work includes chorus for ENO, Garsington and Grange Park Opera.<br \/><\/div><br \/>\n<div class='content-column one_fourth last_column'><div style=\"padding-left:20px;\"><h5><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Audio Sample<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp \" style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:12px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:12px;\">Messiah excerpts<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:8.4px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"Messiah excerpts\", formats: [\"m4a\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGFydGxleXZvaWNlcy5jby51ay93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAxNC8wMS9UaG9tYXNfYmFyaXRvbmVfZGVtby5tNGE=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2203 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartleyvoices.co.uk\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-bartione-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hire bass-baritone Thomas\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-bartione-2-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-bartione-2-768x1159.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-bartione-2-678x1024.jpg 678w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-bartione-2-1200x1811.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1827 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartleyvoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-2-e1506701302358-125x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas, bass-baritone for hire\" width=\"125\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-2-e1506701302358-125x300.jpg 125w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-2-e1506701302358.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 85vw, 125px\" \/>Highlights of his concert work include The Messiah with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in Nicosia, the song project Lads in their hundreds directed by Iain Burnside at Kings Place and on BBC Radio 3, in which his contribution was singled out by Opera Now magazine as &#8216;a tour de force&#8217;, and Ives&#8217; General William Booth enters the Kingdom of Heaven with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBCSO at the Barbican Hall. Other bass-baritone oratorio repertoire recently performed includes Bach&#8217;s St John Passion, Cantata 140 Wachet Auf and B minor Mass, Rossini&#8217;s Petite Messe Solonelle, and Haydn&#8217;s Nelson Mass. He has also sung with the Mark Morris Dance Company on their 2009 UK tour performing Schubert lieder at venues including Sadler&#8217;s Wells, Cardiff&#8217;s Millenium Centre and Snape Maltings.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thomas&#8230; turned comedy caddishness into astonishing music&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>The Times<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thomas is vocal gold&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>The Lady<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thomas&#8230;&nbsp; put his rich baritone and pantomime skills to excellent use as Dulcamara&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>Notes from Xanadu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample Repertoire&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='content-column one_half'><div style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><strong>Opera Hits for Solo Performance<\/strong><br \/>\nVotre Toast (Toreador song from Carmen)<br \/>\nLargo al factotum (The barber of Seville)<br \/>\nNon piu andrai (The Marriage of Figaro)<br \/>\nFin ch\u2019an dal vino (\u2018champagne song\u2019 from Don Giovanni)<br \/>\nDeh vieni alla finestra (serenade from Don Giovanni)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musical Theatre and popular song<\/strong><br \/>\nSome enchanted evening (South Pacific)<br \/>\nStars (Les Miserables)<br \/>\nThe impossible dream (Man of La Mancha)<br \/>\nIf ever I would leave you (Camelot)<br \/>\nOn the street where you live (My Fair Lady)<br \/>\nMy way (Sinatra)<br \/>\nYou\u2019re just to good to be true (Andy Williams)<br \/>\nLa mer (Charles Trenet)<br \/>\nShe (Aznavour)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartleyvoices.co.uk\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-8-370x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Book a bass-baritone opera singer for a superb performance\" width=\"200\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-8-370x1024.jpg 370w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-8-108x300.jpg 108w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-8-768x2124.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas_bass-baritone-8.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='content-column one_half last_column'><div style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><strong>Operatic solo repertoire with pianist<\/strong><br \/>\nAve Maria &#8211; Schubert<br \/>\nO du mein holder Abendstern (Tannh\u00e4user, Wagner)<br \/>\nBella siccome un angelo (Don Pasquale, Donizetti)<br \/>\nCome paride vezzoso (L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore, Donizetti)<br \/>\nKagda by zhizn damashnim krugom (Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky)<br \/>\nSleza drozhit<br \/>\nNyet, tolka tot kto znal<br \/>\nSe vuol ballare (Mozart)<br \/>\nAprite un po quegl\u2019occhi (Mozart)<br \/>\nHai gia vinta la causa (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart)<br \/>\nMadamina, il catalogo e questo (Don Giovanni, Mozart)<br \/>\nAvant de quitter ces lieux (Faust, Gounod )<br \/>\nHow willing my paternal love (Samson, Handel)<br \/>\nThe trumpet shall sound (Handel)<br \/>\nWhy do the nations (Handel)<br \/>\nThe people that walked in darkness (Messiah, Handel)<br \/>\nO ruddier then the cherry (Acis and Galatea, Handel)<br \/>\nArias from Die Jahreszeiten (Haydn)<br \/>\nSongs and Dances of death (Mussorgsky)<br \/>\nSongs of travel (Vaughan-Williams)<br \/>\nSilent Noon (Vaughan-Williams)<br \/>\nHearts Haven (Vaughan-Williams)<br \/>\nLinden lea (Vaughan-Williams)<br \/>\nFive Mystical Songs (Vaughan-Williams)<br \/>\nA Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)<br \/>\nSongs of the fleet (Stanford)<br \/>\nEvening hymn (Purcell)<br \/>\nPie Jesu (Hamilton)<\/div><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2202 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartleyvoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hire bass-baritone Thomas\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Thomas-bass-baritone-e1530708521267.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nThomas, bass-baritone, graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the English Song Prize. Since graduation with distinction in 2009 he has performed the title role in many productions including Rossini&#8217;s Il Signor Bruschino for British Youth Opera and Marcello and Schaunard in OperaUpClose&#8217;s Olivier Award-winning La Boheme at the Soho Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,1],"tags":[62,63],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bass-baritone hire | Thomas | Hartley Voices London UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book an exceptional bass-baritone opera singer to perform for your event for an outstanding entertainment for your dinner party, wedding or corporate event.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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