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Born in Cambridge, Adrian Powter studied at the RNCM. He began his career at Glyndebourne and in 2000 created Philip in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, a production, which was later presented by Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas.

Other roles have included Capulet in Benda’s Romeo and Juliet, Rocco in Paer’s Leonora and Bonario in Soler’s La capricciosa corretta for Bampton Classical Opera, The Abbot Curlew River for the Opéra de Rouen, Jupiter Peleus and Thetis and The Lion Pyramus and Thisbe for Opera Restor’d, Peter Hansel and Gretel for Cork Opera Works, The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen for Surrey Opera, Pluto L’Orfeo for the English Bach Festival Trust, The Mayor Cendrillon for Chelsea Opera Group, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Figaro Figaro’s Wedding, Ramiro L’heure espagnole and Baron Douphol La Traviata for Opera Project, Guglielmo Così fan tutte for Stowe Opera, Masetto Don Giovanni for English Touring Opera, the title-role in Don Giovanni for London Opera Players, Figaro Figaro’s Wedding and Orsini Rienzi for Palace Opera, Schaunard La bohème for Castleward Opera and Longborough Festival Opera, Dandini La cenerentola at the Kijani Kenya Festival, Frank Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera Go Round and Scottish Opera On Tour, Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe The Gondoliers and Pish-Tush The Mikado for Carl Rosa Opera, Marullo Rigoletto for Mid-Wales Opera and The Lost Chord for Opera North.

In concert, Adrian Powter has appeared throughout the UK as well as in China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Singapore singing with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Apollo Chamber Orchestra, the Darmstadt Hofkapelle, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé, the London Sinfonietta, the London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors including William Boughton, David Chernaik, Edward Higginbottom, Libor Pešek and Kent Nagano. His broadcasts have included Friday Night is Music Night with Catherine Bott and the BBC Concert Orchestra for BBC Radio 2 and Opera Works, a series of opera masterclasses with Jonathan Miller, for BBC 2. He also sang Goodall Eternal Light: A Requiem and Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen on tour with the Rambert Dance Company and with the London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra at the Purcell Room and Messiah for Raymond Gubbay Ltd at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Recent and current engagements include Wagner Faust for English National Opera, de Brétigny Manon, Benoit – Alcindoro La bohème, Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri and Baron Douphol La traviata for Scottish Opera, J. S. Bach Coffee Cantata and Peasant Cantata on tour with the Israel Camerata and Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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