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Alan Geoffrey Oke

Tenor

Alan Oke studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and with Hans Hotter in Munich.

Following a successful career as a baritone, he made his debut as a tenor in 1992 singing Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) for Garsington Opera. Since then he has sung a wide variety of roles including Rodolfo (La Boheme), Alfredo (La Traviata), Pinkerton (Madam Butterfly), Steva (Jenufa), Boris (Katya Kabanova), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Gonsalves (L’heure Espangnole), African Prince/Marquis (Lulu), Prunier (La Rondine), Bob Boles (Peter Grimes), Basilio (Figaro), Aschenbach (Death in Venice), First Armed Man (Magic Flute), Pinkerton (Madam Butterfly) in the Gubbay/Freeman production at the Royal Albert Hall, Florestan (Fidelio) and Rodolfo (Luisa Miller) for Opera Holland Park. Companies include Scottish Opera, Opera North, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Opera New Zealand, Opera Zuid, Boston Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera as well as appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Bregenz and Ravenna Festivals.

Concert repertoire includes Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Choral Symphony, Mendelssohn Elijah, Bach B minor Mass, Janacek Glagolitic Mass, Britten Spring Symphony, Britten War Requiem and Elgar Dream of Gerontius.

Recently he received universal acclaim for his performances as Gandhi in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha at English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera and for Aschenbach in Britten’s Death in Venice at the Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals.

Future operatic engagements include From the House of the Dead in Palermo and Death in Venice in Prague as well as a return to the Metropolitan Opera for performances of Queen of Spades and Magic Flute.

Photographs: Alan Geoffrey Oke

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