Schedule for Bryn Terffi - GALA PERFORMANCE 2022


Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

The Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel rose to prominence when he won the Lieder Prize in the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. In 2003, Bryn was awarded a CBE for Services to Opera in the Queen`s New Year Honours list, and received the Queen`s Medal for Music in 2006. He has also received the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg.

He has performed in all the great opera houses of the world, and is especially recognised for his portrayals of Figaro and Falstaff. Other roles include Wotan, Dutchman, Me`phistophe`les, Leporello, Don Giovanni, Jochanaan, Scarpia, Wolfram, Balstrode and Dulcamara.

Bryn is also known for his versatility as a concert performer, with highlights ranging from the opening ceremony of the Wales Millennium Centre to Last Night of the Proms and the Royal Variety Show. He has given recitals in major cities across the world and hosts his own festival every year in Faenol, North Wales.

He is a Grammy, Classical Brit and Gramophone Award winner with a discography encompassing operas by Mozart, Wagner and Strauss, as well as more than ten solo discs of Lieder, American musical theatre, Welsh songs and sacral repertoire.

In 2007, Bryn added the title-role in Gianni Schicchi to his repertoire performing it at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and appeared as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.