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Paul Whelan
Bass
Paul Whelan begins the 2019-20 season at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in the role of Commendatore Don Giovanni, a role he sang in the summer at Garsington Opera. The artist travels to Teatro Municipal de Santiago to sing the role of High Priest of Bel Nabucco. He then rejoins NBR Opera New Zealand for Semele (Cadmus/Somnus) and a recital followed by King Mark in Tristan and Isolde with Opera Queensland.
Paul began last season at Opera New Orleans in the role of Timur Turandot. At Scottish opera he performed the world premiere of Stuart MacRae’s opera Anthropocene in the role of Captain Ross and stepped into the role of Dikoj Katya Kabanova. While singing Commendatore at Garsington Opera he also sang the role of Mícha The Bartered Bride. In his native New Zealand, Paul joined Christchurch Symphony Orchestra for performances of Mozart Requiem.
“Paul Whelan, bass, demonstrates that one can appear in a single scene and still steal the show. His aria as Prince Gremin (“All men surrender to Love’s power”) is sweet and tender, while his bass notes are strong and resonant.”
KC independent, Paul Horsley, 2 October, 2017
“Paul Whelan vividly declaimed Dikoj was equally fresh-minted, bringing a rounded humanity to a part that, in his hands, veered towards comedy as well as tyranny.”
Opera Magazine, Andrew Clark, May 2019
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| BARTOK | Bluebeard’s Castle (Bluebeard) |
| BEETHOVEN | Fidelio (Don Pizarro)* |
| BELLINI | I Puritani (Sir Giorgio) |
| BERLIOZ | Damnation de Faust (Mephistopheles) |
| BRITTEN | Billy Budd (Flint; Claggart) The Rape of Lucretia (Collatinus)Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus, Quince) |
| DEAN | Bliss (Harry Joy) |
| DEBUSSY | Pelleas et Melisande (Arkel) |
| DONIZETTI | Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) Maria Stuarda (Talbot) |
| FLOYD | Susannah (Blitch)* |
| HANDEL
LEONCAVALLO |
Saul (title role) Rinaldo (Argante) Theodora (Valens)La Boheme (Schaunard) |
| MASSENET | Don Quichotte (title role) |
| MONTEVERDI | L’incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca)
Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria (Tempo/Nettuno) |
| MOZART | Cosi fan tutte (Don Alfonso)* Don Giovanni (title role) Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) |
| MUSSORGSKY | Boris Godunov (Pimen)
Khovanshchina (Shaklovity, Dosifey) |
| OFFENBACH | Les contes d’Hoffmann (Four Villains) |
| RACHMANINOFF | The Miserly Knight (title role) |
| ROSSINI | La Cenerentola (Alidoro) |
| STRAVINSKY | The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin) |
| VERDI | Aida (Ramfis) Macbeth (Banco)Boccanegra (Fiesco) |
| WAGNER | Das Rheingold (Wotan) Der fliegende Holländer (Daland) Parsifal (Titurel) Tristan und Isolde (King Marke)Götterdämmerung (Hagen) |
| BACH | St Matthew Passion St John Passion St John Passion Cantatas – Ich Habe Genug |
|---|---|
| BARBER | Dover Beach |
| BRAHMS | Requiem |
| DELIUS | Sea Drift Requiem |
| DVORAK | Stabat Mater Requiem |
| ELGAR | Dream of Gerontius The Apostles |
| HANDEL | Messiah Saul Judas Maccabeus Theodora |
| HAYDN | Nelson Mass Pauken Mass Theresian Mass The Creation |
| MAHLER | Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
| MENDELSSOHN | Elijah |
| MOZART | Requiem Mass in C Minor |
| MUSSORGSKY | Songs and Dances of Death |
| RACHMANINOFF | The Bells |
| ROSSINI | Petite Messe Solennelle Stabat Mater |
| SCHOENBERG | Gurrelieder |
| STANFORD | Songs of the Fleet |
| SZYMANOVSKY | Stabat Mater |
| VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | Fantasia on Christmas Carols Dona Nobis Pacem |
| VERDI | Requiem |
| WALTON | Belshazzar’s Feast |
Contact
Deborah Sanders
Founder and Director
deborah@arbourartists.com