| Biography | Roderick Earle was born in Winchester and graduated from Cambridge, where he read Music and was a Choral Scholar in the St. John's College Choir. He then won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music, joining the Opera School, and later studied with Otakar Kraus. He was awarded a Greater London Arts Association Musician of the Year Award, and in 1980, after two years with English National Opera, made his debut with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro . He then joined the Royal Opera Company and went on to sing more than sixty roles with the company, including Schaunard ( La Bohème ), Abimelech ( Samson et Dalila ), Orestes ( Elektra ), Monterone ( Rigoletto ), the Bonze ( Madama Butterfly ), Brander ( Faust ), Harasta ( Cunning Little Vixen ), Kothner ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), the Philosopher (Massenets Cherubin ), King Fisher ( Midsummer Marriage ) and Alberich ( Siegfried and Götterdämmerung ). He has appeared with all the major British companies, toured to Japan, South Korea, Greece and Finland with the Royal Opera and appeared in the Festivals at Edinburgh, Buxton, Israel, Athens and Flanders. He has sung Kothner, Rangoni ( Boris Godunow ) and Abimelech at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Altair in the British premiere of Strausss Die ägyptische Helena and Ford ( Falstaff ) at Garsington. |