Conal Coad

Conal Coad is an Australian opera singer known for his dramatic interpretations of the bass repertoire. He was born in Feilding, New Zealand, and resides in Australia (Gold Coast, Queensland) and Belgium (Mechelen).

Career

Coad has performed in many major cities and opera houses around the world including:

He has worked with major world operatic conductors including Richard Bonynge, Simone Young, Richard Hickox, Jeffrey Tate, Ricardo Abbado, Julia Jones, Wyn Davies, Dobbs Franks and Zubin Mehta. As a director, he directed Don Pasquale for The NBR New Zealand Opera in 2006.

On 18 June 2014, Coad performed with Renée Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan.[1][2]

Operas

Conal has performed in Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Il Seraglio, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Don Carlo, Falstaff, I vespri siciliani, Aida, Rigoletto, Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummernight's Dream, Let's Make an Opera, Albert Herring, La damnation de Faust, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, L'heure espagnole, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, L'italiana in Algeri, Il turco in Italia, The Queen of Spades, La Bohème, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Norma, Katya Kabanova, Roméo et Juliette, Manon, Mignon, Manon Lescaut, Cendrillon, Fra Diavolo, Der Rosenkavalier, Lulu, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Capriccio, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Gianni Schicchi, Die Meistersinger, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, The Bartered Bride.

References
  1. "東京国際コンサート　歌姫ルネ・フレミングをゲストに開催" [Tokyo Global Concert Held – with Renée Fleming as the special guest]. Mostly Classic (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. 206 (7): 96–97. 2014.
  2. Tokyo Global Concert – New National Theatre, Tokyo, International Foundation for Arts and Culture (Japan)
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