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discipline = "Bass-baritone"
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title = "Robert Hayward"
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Robert Hayward studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he sang several roles including Figaro/_The Marriage of Figaro_ and the title role in Verdi's _Falstaff_. Following a year at the National Opera Studio, he joined Glyndebourne Touring Opera and made his professional opera debut singing the title role of _Don Giovanni_ in 1986.

Since then his roles have included Figaro and Count/_Le Nozze di Figaro_, the title roles in _Don Giovanni_ and _Eugene Onegin_, Marcello/_La Bohème_, Mandryka/_Arabella_, Theseus/_A Midsummer Night's Dream_, Haushofmeister/_Capriccio_, Tomsky/_The Queen of Spades_, Escamillo/_Carmen_, Sharpless/_Butterfly_, Robert Tchaikovsky's _Iolanta_, Golaud/_Pelleas et Melisande_, Jokanaan/_Salome_, Germont/_Traviata_, High Priest/_Samson and Delila_, Nick Shadow/_The Rake's Progress_, Ford/_Falstaff_, Pizarro/Beethoven’s _Leonore_ and _Fidelio_, Khovansky/_Khovanshchina_, Shishkov/_From the House of the Dead_, Scarpia/_Tosca_, Iago/_Otello_, Baron Prus/_Makropolous Case_, Dr Schön/_Lulu_, Simone in Zemlinsky’s _Florentine Tragedy_, Amfortas/_Parsifal_, Telramund/_Lohengrin_, Kurwenal/_Tristan_, Wotan/_The Ring_, the title roles in Dallapiccola _Il prigioniero_, _Bluebeard’s Castle_, _Saul_, _Falstaff_, _Macbeth_, _The Flying Dutchman_ and _Mazeppa_.

He has appeared at all the major UK opera houses. His portrayal of Wotan/Wanderer in ENO’s _RING_ production was described by the Guardian as “overwhelming in his lyricism” (The Guardian). His interpretation of Dr Schön in ENO’s _Lulu_ has been recorded and released on Chandos Records. In 1988 he made his American debut singing Figaro/_Le Nozze di Figaro_ for Houston Grand Opera, and has subsequently sung with the Minnesota, Cincinnati, San Diego and Dallas Operas. He has sung with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Stuttgart Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Opéra de Nantes, New Israeli Opera and at the Edinburgh International Festival.

He has appeared with many of this country's leading orchestras and concert engagements have included _Belshazzar's Feast_ with the Bournemouth Symphony, _Messiah_ with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Hallé and London Philharmonic Orchestras, Tippett _The Mask of Time_, Mendelssohn _Elijah_ and Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Haydn _Creation_ with the Hallé, the role of the Peasant in _Gurrelieder_, Mahler _Das Klagende Lied_ and _Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen_ with the English Northern Philharmonia, Haydn _Creation_ in Lisbon and with the Philharmonia under Claus Peter Flor, _The Dream of Gerontius_ with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and in Copenhagen, the Mozart _Requiem_ with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti, and _Das Klagende Lied_ with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Bath Festival and in a recording for Chandos Records.

Recent and forthcoming operatic engagements include Moses / Schoenberg’s _Moses und Aron_ and Debussy’s _La chute de la maison Usher_, Ivan Khovansky and Commandant / _From the House of the Dead_ for Welsh National Opera, Prus, Jack Rance / _Fanciulla del West_ , Balstrode / _Peter Grimes_, Carlo Gerard / _Andrea Chénier_, Jokannen / _Salome_, Frank Maurrant / _Street Scene_ and Scarpia for Opera North, Prus for Opera de Nantes, Jokannen with Opéra de Montréal, the title roles in _Il Prigioniero_, _Bluebeard’s Castle_ and Telramund/_Lohengrin_ all for Frankfurt Opera, Boris Ismailov / _Lady Macbeth of Mstensk_, Commissioner of Police / _Jack the Ripper_, Jupiter / _Orpheus in the Underworld_ and The Caller / _The Mask of Orpheus_ for English National Opera, the title role in _Falstaff_ for The Grange Festival, _Damnation of Faust_ for Staatstheater Stuttgart, the title roles in _Mazeppa_ and _Moses und Aron_ for the Komische Oper Berlin, Tonio / _I Pagliacci_ for Scottish Opera, _Bluebeard’s Castle_ for Los Angeles Opera and Scottish Opera as well as in concert with the National Youth Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder, a concert performance of _Siegfried_ with Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Paul Daniel and Alberich in concert performances of the _Ring Cycle_ with the London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jurowski. Other recent concert appearances include engagements with Berlin Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Orquesta de Castilla y Leon.