Matthew Bawden
Programme: Summer programme
Discipline: Singer
Role: Reverend Horace (Tenor)
Year: 2025
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MA Advanced Opera Performance, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2024
MMus Music Performance, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2022
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Thomas Leaf, Under the Greenwood Tree (World Premiere), Dorset Opera Festival, 2024
Rinnuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2024
Die Knusperhexe, Hänsel und Gretel, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2023
Chorister, Tosca, Barbiere di Seviglia, Opera Holland Park, 2024
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“My path into opera has been less than conventional one! After many years of theatre school I carried to study an academic music degree as a musical theatre singer. after a mid-degree stylistic switch I started studying classically at age 21. Many years and a few more music degrees, I’m currently focussing on the continued development of my voice through lyric repertoire, though with the ultimate aim to specialise in comprimario and character roles, in which I’m especially comfortable.
Outside of opera I principally teach. This doesn’t leave a lot of time for recreation, though i’m fortunate enough to live within walking distance of three beautiful parks in Cardiff. You can often find my partner and I in one of them walking, taking in the scenery, and dog-spotting!”
