Graeme Broadbent
Graeme Broadbent was born in Halifax and studied at the Royal College of Music with Lyndon Vanderpump. He was invited by Yevgeny Nesterenko to study in Moscow, and entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1990 with the assistance of scholarships from the British Council and the Russian Government. He was awarded the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire Postgraduate Diploma in 1991.
Graeme Broadbent has appeared in recital and oratorio throughout the UK and abroad, at all the major London concert halls and at the Proms, in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Schoenberg. Opera engagements have included Basilio (The Barber of Seville) and Punch and Judy for the English National Opera, Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Nilakantha (Lakme), Sulpice (Fille du Regiment), Raleigh (Roberto Devereux), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) and Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg for the Glyndebourne Festival, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) for Glyndebourne on Tour, Pistola (Falstaff) in Baden-Baden, Seven Deadly Sins and La Calisto for the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Basilio and Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) for the Scottish Opera, Seven Deadly Sins for the Theater an der Wien and Jonathan Dove’s Pinocchio for the Stuttgart Opera. He sang Thomas Ades’s Powder her Face for the Almeida and Aldeburgh Festivals, televised on Channel 4, and Mahagonny Singspiel in Bologna with the London Sinfonietta.
Graeme Broadbent has also appeared with the New Zealand Opera and Opera Comique, as well as with the theatres of Lyon, Montpellier, Nimes, Tourcoing, Caen and Monte Carlo, and at the Lugano, Granada, Athens, Peralada and Spoleto Festivals. His many roles as a member of the Royal Opera included Colline (La bohème), Angelotti (Tosca), Timur (Turandot), Dr Grenvil (La traviata), Nightwatchman (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Leone (Attila), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), the King (Aida) and La Gioconda, and he has established close links with Opera North, where he has appeared in new productions of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, de Falla’s La Vida Breve, Pinocchio, Caronte in Monteverdi’s Orfeo.
Graeme Broadbent has appeared in recital and oratorio throughout the UK and abroad, at all the major London concert halls and at the Proms, in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Schoenberg. Opera engagements have included Basilio (The Barber of Seville) and Punch and Judy for the English National Opera, Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Nilakantha (Lakme), Sulpice (Fille du Regiment), Raleigh (Roberto Devereux), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) and Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg for the Glyndebourne Festival, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) for Glyndebourne on Tour, Pistola (Falstaff) in Baden-Baden, Seven Deadly Sins and La Calisto for the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Basilio and Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) for the Scottish Opera, Seven Deadly Sins for the Theater an der Wien and Jonathan Dove’s Pinocchio for the Stuttgart Opera. He sang Thomas Ades’s Powder her Face for the Almeida and Aldeburgh Festivals, televised on Channel 4, and Mahagonny Singspiel in Bologna with the London Sinfonietta.
Graeme Broadbent has also appeared with the New Zealand Opera and Opera Comique, as well as with the theatres of Lyon, Montpellier, Nimes, Tourcoing, Caen and Monte Carlo, and at the Lugano, Granada, Athens, Peralada and Spoleto Festivals. His many roles as a member of the Royal Opera included Colline (La bohème), Angelotti (Tosca), Timur (Turandot), Dr Grenvil (La traviata), Nightwatchman (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Leone (Attila), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), the King (Aida) and La Gioconda, and he has established close links with Opera North, where he has appeared in new productions of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, de Falla’s La Vida Breve, Pinocchio, Caronte in Monteverdi’s Orfeo.
