Biography
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Iestyn Morris made his Royal Opera House Covent Garden (RBO) debut in the title role of PETER PAN for Welsh National Opera; a role which earned him a nomination for ‘Best Male in an opera production’ in the Wales Theatre Awards. After reading Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol, Iestyn went on to study Early Music (Mmus) and then Opera at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Andrew Watts. In 2003 he became a Britten-Pears Young Artist. He was the 2005 winner of the Tracey Chadwell Award for contemporary song and 2006 winner of the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition.
Operatic performances include Pisandro/Human Frailty IL RITORNO D’ULISSE and Ferdinand DUCHESS OF MALFI for English National Opera, Pleasure in Gerald Barry’s THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY AND DECEIT for Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Ferdinand in the new production of Torsten Rasch’s DUCHESS OF MALFI at Städtische Theater Chemnitz, Medoro ORLANDO FURIOSO for Theater Basel, Pisandro/L’Umana Fragilità IL RITORNO D’ULISSE for Staatstheater Nürnberg, title role in the world premiere of Richard Ayres’ PETER PAN and the world premiere of Jennifer Walshe’s TACTICS for Staatsoper Stuttgart, the title role of ORFEO ED EURIDICE for Theater Koblenz, Oberon A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Nireno GIULIO CESARE for BVOF in Ireland, HERCULES for De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the world premières of HOTEL DE PEKIN (the role of Anzi) and WAKE (Tom Boxer) for Nationale Reisopera, Anzi HOTEL DE PEKIN Het Concertgebouw, Alessandro TOLOMEO, Spirit/Sorceress DIDO AND AENEAS, Shepherd ORFEO and Historicus in Carissimi’s JEPHTE for English Touring Opera, Troll Princess East o’the Moon & West o’the Sun, Peregrine BOYS OF PARADISE for Tete-a-tete, Cold Genius/Cupid KING ARTHUR for Spitalfields Music Festival, Juror/Courtier THE DEATH BY FIRE OF GIORDANO BRUNO for Heresy Records on tour in Ireland, the title role in the English language premiere of Jonathan Dove’s THE LITTLE GREEN SWALLOW for the GSM&D and Max Labouchère in Roger Scruton’s VIOLET for Guildhall Theatre Opera.
In concert, Iestyn has appeared at Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Snape Maltings as well as various cities in Spain, Germany, France and Poland in repertoire including Handel IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO, MESSIAH, JUDAS MACCABEUS, ISRAEL IN EGYPT, JEPHTHA, Bach B MINOR MASS, ST JOHN PASSION, ST MATTHEW PASSION, Pergolesi STABAT MATER, Vivaldi STABAT MATER, Purcell THE FAIRY QUEEN, KING ARTHUR, COME YE SONS OF ART, Dove ARION AND THE DOLPHIN, Orff CARMINA BURANA, Bernstein CHICHESTER PSALMS with Netherlands Radio Orchestra (RFO), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Mattiacis - Staatstheater Wiesbaden, ESO Chamber Orchestra, The King’s Consort, Philharmonia Voices, the Galuppi Quartet and Bournemouth Bach Choir & Orchestra, under András Schiff, Erik Nielsen, Michael Schonwandt, David Brophy, Lawrence Cummings, Matthew Halls, Nicholas McGegan and Richard Egarr among others. Iestyn is also a visiting Professor of Voice at Alleyn’s School
Repertoire.
Opera.
Adès
The Exterminating Angel (Francisco)
Ayres
Peter Pan (Peter)
Benjamin
Written on Skin (Boy)
Britten
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), Death in Venice (Apollo)
Cavalli
Erismena (Idraspe), La Callisto (Endimione)
Dove
Flight (Refugee), L’Augellino Belverde (Augellino), Pinocchio (Fox/Coachman)
Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orfeo)
Händel
Agrippina (Ottone), Ariodante (Polinesso), Orlando (Orlando), Giulio Cesare (Cesare/Tolomeo), Tolomeo (Tolomeo/Alessandro), Tamerlano (Tamerlano/Andronico), Hercules (Hyllus), Semele (Athamas), Xerxes (Arsamene)
Monteverdi
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (L’Umana Fragilità/Pisandro), L’Orfeo (Pastore/Speranza)
Mozart
Mitridate (Farnace)
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (Spirit/Sorceress)
Raskatov
The Dog’s Heart (Pleasant voice/Vyazemska)
Rasch
The Duchess of Malfi (Ferdinand)
Vivaldi
Orlando furioso (Medoro)
Concert
Bach J.S.
Johannes Passion, Matthäus Passion, Messe in h-Moll, Weihnachts-Oratorium, Magnificat, Cantata Nos. BWV 54, 170
Bassani
Salve Regina
Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
Britten
Canticle II
Buxtehude
Jubilate Domino
Carissimi
Jephte
Dove
Arion and the Dolphin
Händel
Messiah, Saul, Jephtha, Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabeas, Samson, Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Verschiedene Kantaten
Jeths
Hotel de Pekin
Monteverdi
Vespers
Orff
Carmina Burana
Pergolesi
Stabat Mater, Salve Regina
Purcell
Come ye sons of Art, Ode for St Cecilia’s day, Fairy Queen, King Arthur
Rasch
The Duchess of Malfi
Telemann
Various Cantatas
Vivaldi
Stabat Mater, Gloria, Cantata Nos. RV 671, 685, 686