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Winner of the Emmy Destinn Award for Young Singers 2006 and a graduate of Durham University, Michael Bracegirdle first trained as a chartered accountant and then worked as a Finance Director in industry. In September 2003, he gave up his career to further his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. At the RNCM, he sang Sandy / First Officer The Lighthouse, Ruggero La rondine and Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress,

His engagements have included Don José Carmen for Mid Wales Opera and Stowe Opera, Steva Jenufa and Cavaradossi Tosca for English Touring Opera, First Armed Man The Magic Flute for English National Opera, Rodolfo La bohème  and Jenik The Bartered Bride for Mid Wales Opera, Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress for Cambridge University Opera, Lensky Eugene Onegin for English Touring Opera and Longborough Festival Opera, Malcolm Macbeth for Chelsea Opera Group and Alfredo La traviata for Clonter Opera.

In concert, his engagements have included Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the Barbican Hall and Puccini Messa di Gloria and Rossini Stabat Mater for the Huddersfield Choral Society, as well as appearances the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. His broadcasts include Friday Night is Music Night and In Tune for the BBC.

His recent and current engagements include Kudryash Katya Kabanova for English Touring Opera, Tamino The Magic Flute for English National Opera, First Armed Man The Magic Flute and Ruiz Il trovatore for Opera Holland Park, Florestan Leonora (Paer) for Bampton Classical Opera,. As a Prize Winner at the Opera Competition and Festival with Mezzo Television, Hungary, he will be making his New York opera début as Danforth in Robert Ward’s The Crucible with Dicapo Opera Theatre in Autumn 2008.

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