Robert Lloyd

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Robert Andrew Lloyd (born March 2, 1940 in Southend-on-Sea , Essex ) is a British opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Lloyd studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus and made his debut in 1969 at the Collegiate Theater (since 1982: Bloomsbury Theater) at University College London as Don Fernando in Beethoven's Leonore , the original version of Fidelio . From 1969 to 1972 he sang at Sadler's Wells Theater, since 1972 in Covent Garden and as a guest all over the world. He sings both the English repertoire (Claggart in Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd , the priest and angel of death in Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius ) as well as German (Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte , Gurnemanz in Parsifal ), Italian (Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia ), French (Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande ) and Russian roles (the title role in Boris Godunow ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Forbes: Robert Lloyd. In: Laura Macy (Ed.): The Grove Book of Opera Singers , Oxford UP 2008, p. 286 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ LLOYD, Robert Andrew. In: The International Who's Who 2004, p. 1018
personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloyd, Robert Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Southend-on-Sea , Essex