Tenor Barry Webb CONTACT: 30, No 8 Newton Street, Covent Garden, London. WC2B 5EG. UK. Tel & Fax: +44 (0)20 7430 1373 Mob: +44 (0)7941 575007. EMAIL

After at graduating from Cambridge, BARRY WEBB was awarded an entrance scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music. He then finished his studies at Opera School of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

He has sung extensively in oratorio all over the UK. Some of the works he has sung include: Handel (Messiah, Joshua, Judas Maccabeus, Acis and Galatea) Haydn (Creation, Maria Theresa Mass, Harmoniemesse, Nelson Mass) Mozart (Mass in C, Reqiuem) Schubert (Mass in B Flat) Mendelsohn (Elijah) Bach (Magnificat, Cantata 106) Purcell (Rejoice in the Lord) Charpentier (Te Deuem in D) Puccini (Messa di Gloria) Stainer (Crucifixion) Pergolesi (Magnificat) Frank (Mass for 3 voices) Stravinsky (Mass in A) Rossini (Petite Messe Solenelle).

His concert work includes work with the BBC Singers, the London Voices and London Symphonietta Voices, Capella Nova (Carmina Burana), and John Currie Singers. He appeared last year as the principal artist at an operatic gala at the Birmingham Motor Show.

His Operatic career includes performances with Scottish Opera (cover for Don Ottavio), Bloomsbury Opera (Tamino and Lenski), the Edinburgh Festival (3rd Jew in Salome with the Swedish Folkopera), The Opera Company (Almaviva), Pimlico Opera (Don Ramiro), Dublin Grand Opera Society, (Messenger in Trovatore), Buxton Festival (cover for Argirio and Scipione), the English Bach Festival, Garsington Opera, Musica nel Chiostro, the Windsor and Eton Operatic Society (Count Ory), in King Arthur at the Minack Theatre and recently he was an Apprentice in Meistersinger von Nueremberg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

His singing has taken him all over the world including La Scala, Milan, Frankfurt Oper, Theatro de la Zarzuela Madrid, Rome Opera, New York City Opera , Batignano, and the Bayreuth Festspiele. He has recently sung in concerts in Monte Carlo and Marbella. He has performed in opera concerts as a guest of Rodney Milnes (Editor, Opera Magazine) on the QE2.

His operatic roles have also included Don Basilio; Don Curzio; Iro (Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria); Pang (Turandot); Remendando (Carmen);); Guillot (Manon); Goro (Butterfly); The Old Man (L'Enfant et les Sortileges); Laertes (Mignon); Dorvil (La Scala di Seta); Nero (Poppea); Mozart(Mozart and Salieri); Prince Phillipe (Berkeley's Dinner Engagement); Nanki Poo (Mikado); David (Meistersinger.

His voice teachers have been Kenneth Bowen, Barbara Robotham, Joan Alexander, Edward Brooks, and Alberto Remedios,

REVIEWS

Barry Webb, the splendid tenor soloist, reminded me of Richard Tauber. The only remnants of Stravinskian tartness were to be found in the tenor in the Sanctus- Webb again.
The INDEPENDENT

BW·.invests Tamino with well-defined authority.
HAM AND HIGH

BW was outstanding vocally as Count Ory His remarkable tenor voice coped with the complexities. WIDSOR EXPRESS.

I especially liked Barry Webb's fluid Almaviva.
TES

There were neatly drawn vignettes by Barry Webb as Basilio and Curzio.
THE GUARDIAN.

Barry Webb's Damon (Acis) managed to breath through his ears.
GLASGOW HERALD.

Barry Webb gave good shape to Lensky's lines.
OPERA