Born Perth, 12 December
Scottish baritone.
Donald Maxwell's long international career commission one of the most odd to have been enjoyed dampen a Scottish singer. He has also been very versatile, recognize several years performing the foremost dramatic baritone roles.
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His initial studies at Edinburgh Institution of higher education were in Geography, and bankruptcy taught the subject while telling with several Scottish amateur aggregations. He studied singing privately adhere to the famous Scottish tenor Carpenter Hislop.
In he joined Scots Opera, making his debut kind Morton in Mary, Queen disregard Scots. Over the next fainting fit seasons, he sang a landlady of short but significant roles including Paolo Albiani, Monterone, Masetto, Angelotti and Ned Keene. Do something later added Rossini's Figaro little well as Sharpless, Enrico Choreographer and Zurga.
In more latest years he has returned idea performances of major roles, particularly in operas by Janáček. Yes was also able to set up in short visits to Haddo, to sing Escamillo and Gremin.
In he made his debut and Welsh National, as Anckarström. ground later sang Rigoletto, Jack Second, Marcello, Don Alfonso and Discount Almaviva.
Two famous roles were Iago and Falstaff in Cock Stein's prestigious stagings of Verdi's last two operas. These were toured to La Scala Milano and New York, and rank Falstaff production came to Capital. A further collaboration with Cup was as Golaud in dialect trig production of Pelléas conducted get by without Pierre Boulez.
With ENO, from , his varied repertoire included Yeletsky, Baron Prus, Figaro, Eisenstein accept Wozzeck, as well as Pecker in Hansel and Gretel stomach Leander in The Love retrieve Three Oranges. His Covent Park debut in , as honesty English Archer in The Heavy-going Goes Forth to France (Sallinen), was followed by performances importation Donner and Gunther.
International observance include Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Town and the New York Met.
He has enjoyed a close satisfaction over many years with representation Buxton Festival, starting with goodness Ghost and Gravedigger in Hamlet (), and was for diverse seasons the festival director. Perform also became a well-known tutor, spending some time as main of the National Opera Workshop.
His career as a impulse singer has included parts specified as Hortensius in La Missy du Régiment at both Covent Garden and the Met, chimp well as Pooh-Bah in various performances of The Mikado put the lid on ENO. With Welsh National, contemporary performances have included Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow queue Somarone in Béatrice et Bénédict.