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Grant Doyle (baritone)

Grant Doyle
Birth name Grant William Doyle
Born (1971-05-21) 21 May 1971 (age 45)
Origin Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Genres Classical
Opera
Vocal
Occupation(s) Baritone singer
Years active 1994–present

Grant Doyle is an Australian/British operatic baritone.

Born in Adelaide, Doyle studied voice at the Elder Conservatorium and then the Opera School at the Royal College of Music in London, subsequently winning a place on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

His roles for the ROH include Ping Turandot (2014), El Dancairo Carmen, Apprentice Wozzeck, Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos, Schaunard La boheme, Demetrius A Midsummers Night's Dream, Marullo Rigoletto and Billy Wayne Smith in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole.

Credits include the Forester Cunning Little Vixen, the title role in Don Giovanni and Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera; Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles, Yeletsky Queen of Spades, Marcello La bohème and Fantastic Mr Fox for Opera Holland Park; Demetrius at the Teatro Real in Madrid as well as Ned Keene Peter Grimes for Teatro Perez Galdos in Gran Canaria. He has appeared with Opera North, starring as Robin Oakapple in their acclaimed Jo Davies production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore as well as Sasha Paradise Moscow. He has sung Marcello La bohème for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall and also Schaunard for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He has sung the title role in The Barber of Seville, Marcello, Hector King Priam, Eduardo L'assedio di Calais, Paolo Simon Boccanegra and Emireno Ottone for English Touring Opera, as well as creating the role of Abraham in James MacMillan's Clemency directed by Katie Mitchell for ROH2 and revived for Scottish Opera at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.


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