Roland Wood
Baritone
Roland Wood has sung major roles at all the major UK companies and overseas.
Previously for ENO: Scarpia Tosca, The Count The Marriage of Figaro, Paulo Simon Boccanegra, Kissinger Nixon in China, Alfio Cavalleria rusticana, Marcello La bohème, Zurga The Pearl Fishers, Papageno The Magic Flute, Paul Bunyan Paul Bunyan, The Pilgrim The Pilgrim’s Progress, Oedipus Thebans
Career Highlights
Highlights include Ford (Falstaff) and Roucher (Andrea Chenier) Royal Opera; Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Paolo (Simon Boccanegra), Zurga (The Pearl Fishers), Bunyan/Pilgrim (The Pilgrim’s Progress), Marcello (La Bohème) English National Opera; Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Scarpia (Tosca), Count di Luna (Il Trovatore), Escamillo (Carmen), Robert Storch (Intermezzo) Scottish Opera; Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) Glyndebourne Festival; Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) Opera North; Renato (Un ballo in maschera) and Nottingham (Roberto Devereux) Welsh National Opera; Scarpia and Renato Grange Park Opera.
In North America, Renato and Rigoletto at Canadian Opera Company, Macbeth Opera Theatre of St Louis, Rigoletto Michigan Opera Theatre, Giorgio Germont Opera Santa Fe. At Staatsoper Stuttgart Scarpia and Rigoletto.
Last year, Falstaff Scottish Opera and Gianni Schicchi COC, this year Don Giovanni Scottish Opera, Ford Santa Fe and Scarpia Stuttgart; 2023 sees him sing Gianni Schicchi and Michele (Il Tabarro) Scottish Opera, Scarpia at COC and Stuttgart, and Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Last updated: 30th December 2022