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date = "2017-10-09T12:02:00-04:00"
discipline = "Bass"
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publishDate = "2017-10-09T12:02:00-04:00"
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slug = "clive-bayley"
title = "Clive Bayley"
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Born in Manchester, Clive Bayley sings regularly with the major opera companies in a diverse repertoire spanning Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Birtwistle, Richard Wagner and Ligeti. 

Clive will continue to showcase his operatic and concert repertoire in the 2016/17 season with Teatro Real de Madrid’s production of *Billy Budd* in the role of Dansker, the reprising role of Il Commendatore in Northern Ireland Opera’s production of *Don Giovanni*, Fafner in *Rheingold* with the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, Theseus in Aldeburgh Music’s production of *Midsummernights’ Dream* and Publio in *Clemenza di Tito* at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Clive’s operatic engagements in the 2015/16 season include Glyndebourne Touring Opera’s production of *Die Entführung aus dem Serail* and subsequently returned to Grange Park Opera in 2016 as Filippo II in *Don Carlos*. 

Season 2014/15 saw Clive performing as Gesler in *Guillaume Tell* with the Welsh National Opera, Il Commendatore in Bergen opera’s production of *Don Giovanni*, and a recording of Gaetano Donizetti’s *Les Martyrs* with Opera Rara and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in which Clive sung the role of Callisthènes.

Previous operatic engagements include Claggart in *Billy Budd* at the Gothenburg Opera and *Der Fliegende Holländer* at the Royal Danish Theatre, in which he performed the role of Daland.  At the beginning of 2014, Clive made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he sang the role of the Doctor in *Wozzeck*. Clive has also appeared in roles such Astramados in *Le Grand Macabre* in San Francisco, *Don Quichotte* at Grange Park Opera, Sir Walter Raleigh in Benjamin Britten’s *Gloriana*, at both the Hamburg Opera and the Royal Opera House and as Prince Gremin in *Onegin* at Grange Park Opera. His appearances include such roles as Kecal in *The Bartered Bride*, Bluebeard in *Duke Bleabeard’s Castle*, Rocco in *Fidelio* and König Marke in *Tristan und Isolde*. 

Collaborations with prestigious opera houses include: Arkel in *Pelléas et Mélisande*, *Ulisse*, Titurel in *Parsifal*, Sylvano in *La Calisto*, Geronte in *Manon Lescaut* and Achilla in *Giulio Cesare* at the Bayresche Staatsoper. With the Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg, he has sung Fasolt in David McVicar’s new production of *Das Rheingold* and Claggart in Richard Jones’s production of *Billy Budd* at Frankfurt Opera. 

In his native country Clive made his debut with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, as 2nd Prisoner *Fidelio* and has since appeared there in the world-premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s *Gawain*, as Biterolf in *Tannhäuser*, Colline in *La Bohème*, Hans Foltz in *Die Meistersinger*, Carbon in Alfano’s *Cyrano de Bergerac*, Thoas in *Iphigénie en Tauride*, Sylvano in *La Calisto* and Hunding in *Die Walküre*. He also works regularly with the Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Opera North and Welsh National Opera. His past recordings for Chandos include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the English Northern Philaharmonia and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Hunding *Die Walküre* and the Grand Inquisitor in the “Study Scene” from *Don Carlos* with the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder.
