Henry Neill

Henry Neill’s current and future engagements include GUGLIELMO Cosi fan tutte Opera North, SCHAUNARD La bohème Opéra Montpellier, COUNT Le Nozze di Figaro and LESCAUT Manon Theater Aachen, Shlomowitz’s Electric Dreams Grand Théâtre de Genève, Eötvös’ The Golden Dragon Theater Fribourg, FIORELLO Il barbiere di Siviglia Opéra National de Lorraine and NED KEENE cover Peter Grimes Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

In the 2018-2019 season, he was a member of the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar ensemble, where roles included PAPAGENO Die Zauberflöte, FIGARO and COUNT Le nozze di Figaro, GUGLIELMO Cosi fan tutte, MASETTO Don Giovanni, SILVANO Un Ballo in Maschera, ANGELOTTI Tosca and FREDDY My Fair Lady.

Past guest engagements were SCHAUNARD La bohème Opera North, PAPAGENO Die Zauberflöte Opera på Skäret in Sweden, EDMUND BERTRAM in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (new commission) The Grange Festival, NOAH Hepplewhite’s Silver Electra (new commission) English Touring Opera, Spontini’s Agnes Von Hohenstaufen Theater Erfurt, COUNT Le Nozze di Figaro at Hackney Empire conducted by Jane Glover, La Traviata at West Green House Opera, FRIQUET Offenbach’s Vert-Vert Garsington Opera (David Parry) and recitals with pianist Somi Kim Wigmore Hall and International Holland Music Festival.

Notable concert performances include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, appearances on BBC Radio 3‘s In Tune, at the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Leeds Lieder Festival and on Dutch Radio 4. Whilst at the Academy, he performed Butterworth’s Six songs from A Shropshire Lad with Orchestra (Sir Mark Elder).

Henry won the 2016 Royal Overseas Singer’s Prize, along with several awards including a Sybill Tutton Opera Award, first prize at the Dean and Chadlington Festival, the Sir Thomas Armstrong prize for English song and the Sacred Aria Prize at the Mozart Singing Competition and was a prize winner at the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Henry graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Mark Wildman, Ingrid Surgenor, Jane Glover and Iain Ledingham.