| Biography | Richard George Angas was a British bass singer, particularly associated with the English National Opera, but who also sang with other UK opera companies and in Europe.
Angas's debut was as Lodovico in Otello for Scottish Opera in 1966. He sang the Abbot in Britten's Curlew River for English Opera Group in 1969. He first appeared with Welsh National Opera in 1976, and in 1980 began a 30-year association with English National Opera (ENO) where his roles included Pluto (L'Orfeo), Basilio (The Barber of Seville), Gloucester (Lear), Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)), various roles in War and Peace, and the Mikado, which he sang over 150 times. He sang at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City with ENO on tour in 1984. |