Brindley Sherratt

He possesses one of the finest bass voices around today…”
George Hall, The Independent

Born in Lancashire, bass Brindley Sherratt studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden his roles have included Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Jeronimus (Maskerade), He-Ancient (The Midsummer Marriage), Publio (La clemenza di Tito) and Marchese di Calatrava (La forza del Destino). In Salzburg he has sung Balducci (Benvenuto Cellini) with Gergiev and Hobson (Peter Grimes) with Rattle. At the Glyndebourne Festival he has appeared as Rocco (Fidelio), Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring) and Immigration Officer (Flight). A favourite at the English National Opera, his roles there have included Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Ramfis (Aida) and Claudio (Agrippina).

Other operatic engagements include his U.S. debut at Santa Fe Opera singing both the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) and Claudio; Rocco in Seville; Sarastro at the Hamburg State Opera; Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at La Monnaie, Brussels; Leporello (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Gremin and Sarastro at the Welsh National Opera and Sparafucile for Opera North.

His engagements this season include Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Pimen (Boris Godunov) and Edward Teller (Dr Atomic) for the ENO; Philip (Don Carlos) for Opera North and Marke (Tristan und Isolde) in concert with the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Future plans include returns to Covent Garden and to the ENO and his role debut as Pognor (Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg) for the WNO.

In concert he has appeared with the Ensemble Intercontemporain with Boulez, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Harding, the Mozarteum Orchestra with Bolton and L'Orchestre des Champs-Elysées with Langrée.

He has recorded Somnus / Cadmus (Semele) for Chandos, Ubaldo (Donizetti’s ‘Imelda de Lambertazzi’) for Opera Rara and Haydn Masses with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Photo: Sussie Ahlburg