| Biography | David Fieldsend, born Barnsley, English tenor.
David Fieldsend studied in London at the Guildhall, leaving with the Gold Medal. He worked with Opera Rara and made his Wexford Festival debut as Vanya in David Pountney's 1971 production of Kátya Kabanová, repeating the part at the following year's York Festival.
He joined Scottish Opera for five seasons, singing twenty-five roles. During that period he toured with the company to Germany, Portugal and Poland, appearing as Prologue in The Turn of the Screw and Toni in Elegy for Young Lovers.
He sang leading roles with Travelling Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Cambridge University Opera, Dorset Opera, Buxton Festival Opera and Opera North. He first appeared at Covent Garden in 1983 in Der Rosenkavalier. He also had a successful career in operetta, singing major roles with the new D'Oyly Carte and Carl Rosa organizations, including Ralph Rackstraw, Nanki-Poo, Colonel Fairfax and Marco Palmieri.
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