Eric Roberts
Eric won a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Manchester College of Music with Gwilym Gwalchmai. He made his operatic debut as Papageno The Magic Flute with WNO, followed by Falke Die Fledermaus, Shelkalov Boris Godunov,the Novice’s Friend Billy Budd and Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte.
Since then he has worked with all the major British opera companies including Kent Opera, Opera 80, Opera North, and the Handel Opera Society at Sadler’s Wells. For ENO he sang the role of the Mayor in Rimsky Korsakov’s Christmas Eve and multi roles in Pacific Overtures, and, for Glyndebourne, the roles of Benoit and Alcindoro in their televised production of La Boheme. At the Buxton Festival he appeared most recently as Montroc Un Giorno di Regno and Don Andres La Perichole. Abroad he has sung for Brisbane Lyric Opera, La Fenice, Flanders Opera, Vancouver Opera, Spoleto Festival and Opera Zuid.
Invited to join the relaunched D’Oyly Carte, he was for three years their leading ‘patter man’, playing Jack Point Yeomen of the Guard the Lord Chancellor Iolanthe, Koko The Mikado, the Major General The Pirates of Penzance and Sir Joseph Porter HMS Pinafore.
Most recent and current appearances include Dr Bartolo Barber of Seville (Welsh National Opera), Psychiatrist One Touch of Venus (Opera North and Ravenna Festival) Ko-Ko The Mikado (English National Opera), Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore (Grange Park Opera), and Magnifico (Frankfurt).