Alastair Miles
| Alastair Miles | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 July 1961 Harrow, England |
| Education |
Guildhall School of Music Royal Academy of Music |
| Occupation | opera singer, bass |
| Awards | Decca-Kathleen Ferrier Award (1986) John Christie Award (1987) |
Alastair Miles (born 11 July 1961, Harrow, England) is a British operatic and concert bass who has had an international career since the late 1980s.
Alastair Miles was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and, while still at school, was taught by the composer Albert Alan Owen, a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, who inspired him to think about a career in music. Miles studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music under Trevor Wye, Peter Lloyd and Edward Beckett. He became an orchestral player and taught at Stowe School and Chetham's School of Music before embarking on his vocal career. From 1982 to 1985 he sang as a Lay Clerk in the choir of St. Albans Cathedral. He was studying with bass-baritone Richard Standen when, prompted by English National Opera baritone Geoffrey Chard, he began studying with Bruce Boyce at the Royal Academy of Music. It was while he was with Boyce that he decided on a career in opera.
Alastair Miles won the 1986 Decca-Kathleen Ferrier Award at Wigmore Hall and the 1987 John Christie Award at the Glyndebourne Festival. His recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah, in which he sang the title role, won Gramophone magazine's Best Choral Award for 1993.
Alastair Miles is well known for bel canto roles and is considered an ideal Verdi bass. He has been called 'the finest bass of his generation'.
Alastair Miles has sung at the Metropolitan Opera (Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Giorgio in I Puritani and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor); Paris – Bastille (Raimondo); Vienna (Prefetto in Linda di Chamonix, Giorgio in I Puritani, Cardinal Brogni in La Juive, Silva in Ernani, Zaccaria in Nabucco, Walter in Luisa Miller, Philippe II in Don Carlos, Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress"); Bayerische Staatsoper (Giorgio, Raimondo, title role in Handel’s Saul, Zoroastro in Orlando); San Francisco Opera (Giorgio, Raimondo and Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia); Amsterdam (Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Raimondo), Madrid (Philip II in Don Carlo, Raimondo and Muley-Hassem in Emilio Arrieta’s La Conquista di Granata); Seville (Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust); Palermo (Walter in Luisa Miller); Pesaro (Le Gouverneur in Rossini’s Le Compte Ory) and La Scala, Milan (Melisso in Alcina and Lord Sidney in Il Viaggio a Rheims).
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