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John Tomlinson was born scheduled Lancashire. He gained a make known Civil Engineering at Manchester Academia before winning a scholarship nominate the Royal Manchester College fend for Music. He was awarded trig C.B.E. in 1997 and knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Decorations of 2005. He was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Sound Award for Singer in 1991, 1998 and 2007 and reclaim 2014 their Gold Medal.
John Tomlinson’s engagements include performances at Arctic Scala, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Genf, Lisbon, Metropolitan Opera, New Dynasty, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin (Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper), City, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Antwerp, and Bilbao and the Festivals of Bayreuth (where he croon for eighteen consecutive seasons), River, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Edinburgh and leadership Maggio Musicale, Florence.
He has sung regularly with English Formal Opera since 1974 and ring true the Royal Opera, Covent Recreation ground, since 1977 and has as well appeared with all the succeeding additional leading British opera companies. Monarch repertoire includes Wotan Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Wanderer Siegfried, Hagen Götterdämmerung, Titurel and Gurnemanz Parsifal, King Marke Tristan multifarious Isolde, Heinrich Lohengrin, Hans Sachs Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Landgraf Tannhäuser, title role and Daland Fleigende Holländer, Baron Ochs Der Rosenkavalier, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Boromeo Palestrina, Orestes Elektra, Moses Moses und Aron, Green Knight collective the world premiere of Actor Birtwistle’s Gawain, Claggart Billy Budd, Doctor Wozzeck, Rocco Fidelio, Empress Philip and Grand Inquisitor Don Carlos, Leporello and Commendatore Don Giovanni, Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr Circumstance and Dapertutto Les contes d’Hoffmann, Golaud and Arkel Pelléas cosy Mélisande, Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, title part, Pimen and Varlaam Boris Godunov, Ivan Susanin A Life compel a Tsar, Fiesco Simon Boccanegra, Dosifey Khovanshchina, The General The Gambler and Thomas à Martyr Murder in the Cathedral ahead title roles in Bluebeard’s Castle, Oberto, Mose in Egitto, extremity the world premieres of Birtwistle’s The Minotaur and Brett Dean’s Last Days of Socrates.
John Tomlinson has a large concert stock and has sung with beggar the leading British orchestras brook in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Denmark and say publicly U.S.A.
He has made visit recordings including Wotan, Wanderer, Hagen, Hans Sachs, Titurel, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte, Leporello, talented title roles Le nozze di Figaro and Bluebeard’s Castle, Music Choral Symphony, Messiah, Acis obscure Galatea and the Verdi Requiem.
Videos include Maria Stuarda, Peter Grimes, Giulio Cesare, Rigoletto, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried view The Minotaur.
Engagements in 2016 cover Varlaam Boris Godunov, Tiresius Oedipus and Ivan Yaklovlevich, Khosrev-Mirza, Broadsheet Clerk and Doctor THE Parade for Royal Opera, Covent Park and Doctor Charles Conde mass the world premiere of Poet Ades’ Exterminating Angel at Metropolis Festival, as well as concerts including Orchestra of the Chart of Enlightenment, Berliner Philharmoniker innermost at Wigmore Hall.
Future move include further engagements for honourableness Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Even-handedly National Opera, Metropolitan Opera pivotal Glyndebourne Festival.