Alex Otterburn’s future and recent engagements include STARVELING A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opéra de Lausanne, NED KEENE Peter Grimes, HENRY CUFFE Gloriana, and ERNIE It’s a Wonderful Life English National Opera, ZWEITER HANDWERKSBURSCHE in Deborah Warner’s production of Wozzeck Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, MORALES Carmen, CASCADA The Merry Widow, and STARVELING A Midsummer Night’s Dream Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Previous engagements have included NED KEENE Peter Grimes Teatro La Fenice and roles for English National Opera including PLUTO Orpheus in the Underworld, SQUIBBY in the world premiere of Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel and SCHAUNARD La bohème conducted by Ben Glassberg. Other notable past projects were PETER in the world premiere of David Matthew’s Anna, DEMETRIUS A Midsummer Night’s Dream and ALLANTE Agrippina Grange Festival Opera, CHIP in Antony McDonald’s production of On the Town Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, EDDY in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek Edinburgh International Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Arts, HARLEQUIN Ariadne auf Naxos Opera Holland Park and Scottish Opera, CASCADA The Merry Widow Opera North and D’OBIGNY La Traviata Scottish Opera.
Concert highlights include Carmina Burana Oulu Symphony Orchestra under Rumon Gamba, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles accompanied by James Baillieu and Philip Moore Edinburgh International Festival, and a programme including Vaughan Williams and Gurney at the Ludlow English Song Festival with Iain Burnside. He has sung Haydn’s The Seasons, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. He recorded The Call (Stone Records), the debut release from Barbara Hannigan’s Momentum initiative accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.
Alex studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.
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"Alex Otterburn is magnetic as Eddy. The first thing he does is eyeball us in intense silence; this is a performer with serious stage presence and a voice to match."
The Guardian
"Baritone Alex Otterburn managed to his infuse his shiny light baritone with a super cockney accent. “Eddy,” (...) Otterburn is a natural character actor."
Opera Wire
"But the evening belongs to Eddy and to Alex Otterburn’s outstanding performance."
theoperacritic.com
"Alex Otterburn bestrides the stage as Eddy. He embodies the character’s myriad contradictions with vigour and restless energy, but also a humanity that endears him to us. Not only does he throw himself into the smut and the swearing, but he retains a distinctive lyricism and beauty to his voice that evokes sympathy for his plight, and he thoroughly deserved his roof-raising ovation at the end."
Seen and Heard International
"Alex Otterburn’s Suffolk wide boy Ned Keene are intensely compelling."
The Guardian
"Alex Otterburn turns in a maniacally-driven, fabulously well sung performance as the spiv Ned Keene."
musicOMH
"Baritone Alex Otterburn sashayed around the stage as the spivvy fixer Ned Keene."
Bachtrack
"Among the others, David Soar and Alex Otterburn sing strongly as Hobson and Ned Keene."
Financial Times
"“Greek,” with a libretto adapted from Steven Berkoff’s play of the same name, turns Oedipus into Eddy — insecure and covering it up with desperate bravado, and played at the Brooklyn Academy by Alex Otterburn with quiet charisma and a doughy, swiftly changeable face. "
The New York Times
"Baritone Alex Otterburn produced a vibrant performance as the sharp-witted Ned Keene, in which he convincingly developed his multi-layered character, blending the fun-loving, tolerant and helpful side of his nature with a hard-headed, impatient, cynical side."
OperaWire
"Alex Otterburn’s razor-edged Moralès stood out."
The Guardian
"Alex Otterburn was a terrific Moralès."
Opera Today
"Alex Otterburn makes a delightfully flamboyant Pluto."
Financial Times
"Alex Otterburn makes a seriously strong impression as a charismatic Pluto."
The Arts Desk
"Alex Otterburn, a ENO Harewood Young Artist, gave a career defining performance as Pluto, effortlessly charming, devilish and able to fill the London Coliseum with personality whether singing or speaking. He showed how it should be done, this Pluto combined bad behaviour, with wit and charm. "
Planet Hugill
"Alex Otterburn singing Pluto, was magnificent (...) He’s exuberant and perfect for the riotous, rakish role."
Art Muse London
