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date = "2019-03-03T18:00:56+00:00"
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Thomas Faulkner is a member of the solo ensemble at Oper Frankfurt where his roles season include John Claggart in _Billy Budd,_ Alidoro in _La Cenerentola_, Elviro in _Serse_, Zuniga in _Carmen_, Benes _Dalibor_, Lord Gualtiero _I puritani_, Jago in _Ernani_, Ghost of Hector, Mercury and a Soldier in _Les Troyens_. Thomas will also debut as Masetto in Garsington Opera Festival’s _Don Giovanni._

Previously, he was a young artist at the Frankfurt Opera. His roles included Older Passenger in Weinberg's _Die Passagierin_, Don Marco in _Le Cantrici Villane_, Osmin in _Die Entführung aus dem Serail_ (Short Version) and Perückenmacher in Strauss' _Ariadne auf Naxos_, Ein Polizeikommissär in _Rosenkavalier_, Das Portrait / Erzähler in _Drei Einakter_, Handwerksbursch in _Wozzeck_, and Einpolnischer Hauptmann in _Ivan Susanin_. He has also sung with Scottish Opera as Banquo in their touring production of _Macbeth_, in Orfeounder Ivor Bolton with the Bayerische Staatsoper, and Messenius in _Christina Regina di Svezia_, Sarastro in _Die Zauberflöte_, and Dulcamara in _L'elisir d'amore_ for Wexford Festival Opera. Other roles include Second Armed Man in _Die Zauberflöte_ for Garsington Opera, Bartolo in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ for British Youth Opera, Superintendent Budd in _Albert Herring_ for Royal Academy Opera, Don Pantaleone in _Die Drei Pintos_ for UCOpera, Noye in _Noyes Fludde_, the title role of _Don Pasquale_, Elviro in _Xerxes_, Plutone in _Orfeo_, and Gremin in _Eugene Onegin_.

Recent concert engagements include Beethoven IX Symphony with the Dresdner Philharmonie, and Haydn's _Die Jahreszeiten_ with the Nürnberg Sinfoniker. He has recently performed Mozart's C minor mass at Les Grands Concerts Salle Metropole with Maestro Bertrand de Billy and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Verdi's _Requiem_ with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.