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Born in Lancashire, bass Brindley Sherratt studied at the Royal Academy of Music, of which he is now a Fellow and Visiting Professor.

Highlights in Brindley Sherratt's 2017/18 season include Ochs _Der Rosenkavalier_ and Arkel in a new production of _Pelléas et Mélisande_ for the Glyndebourne Festival and Rustomji _Satyagraha_ and Ramfis in a new production of _Aida_ for the English National Opera.  His concert engagements include Cadmus & Somnus _Semele_ on tour with the OAE and Ivor Bolton, Verdi’s _Requiem_ with the CBSO and Edward Gardner and Mussorgsky’s _Songs and Dances of Death_ with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder.

Recent highlights have included Sarastro _Die Zauberflöte_, Sparafucile _Rigoletto_, Gremin _Eugene Onegin_, Ramfis _Aida_ and Timur _Turandot_ at Covent Garden; Sarastro at the Wiener Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper and for the Netherlands Opera; Claggart for the Teatro Réal in Madrid, at the Glyndebourne and Aldeburgh Festivals and at the BBC Proms; Bottom _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_ at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Doctor _Wozzeck_ at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Arkel _Pelléas et Mélisande_ for the Opernhaus Zurich and Oper Frankfurt.  His many roles for the English National Opera have included Sarastro, Pimen _Boris Gudonov_ and Fiesco _Simon Boccanegra_. He has also sung Banco _Macbeth_ for the Opéra de Bordeaux; Pimen for the Opéra de Nice; Balducci _Benvenuto Cellini_ and Hobson _Peter Grimes_ in Salzburg; Rocco in Seville; Pogner _Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg_ for the Welsh National Opera and Fasolt _Das Rheingold_ and Filippo _Don Carlo_ for Opera North.

Future seasons see him return to Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Opernhaus Zurich, the English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

In demand on the concert platform he has appeared at the Bregenz, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Three Choirs Festivals and at the BBC Proms. He works regularly with leading orchestras and conductors and recent engagements have included the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Pappano; the Philharmonia with Sir Andrew Davis; the Hallé Orchestra with Elder the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Harding; the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Bicket; the Monteverdi Choir with Gardiner; the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with Langrée.

He has recorded the roles of Polyphemus _Acis & Galetea_ (Nimbus); Somnus/Cadmus _Semele_ and Ariodante _Serse_ (Chandos); Ubaldo in Donizetti’s _Imelda de Lambertazzi_ and Goffredo in Bellini’s _Il Pirata_ (Opera Rara); Rocco _Fidelio_ (Glyndebourne Live) as well as Judas in _The Apostles_ with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder; Beethoven’s _Missa Solemnis_ with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and John Nelson and Haydn Masses and Bach Cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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