Martin McEvoy
| Martin McEvoy | |
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| Born | April 21, 1951 |
| Occupation | Opera singer, Broadcaster |
Martin McEvoy (born 21 April 1951) is an English opera singer, producer, presenter and broadcaster. He has specialised in playing light baritone roles in opera and operetta especially those in the Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire. He broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio. McEvoy is the founder and artistic director of Crystal Clear Opera, London City Opera and Martin McEvoy Productions.
As a young boy he attended the Northern Theatre School, St Blaise School and St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford. He played Young MacDuff in the West Riding Youth Theatre production of Macbeth with John Duttine in the title role and he also appeared with many local amateur societies. McEvoy was awarded the York Scholarship to study singing at the Royal College of Music, London. His vocal teacher at The RCM was the Welsh operatic baritone Redvers Llewellyn. Having finished his studies at the RCM Opera School he won the Ralph Vaughan Williams scholarship for further study at Der Musikhochschule at The University of Cologne with the German baritone Josef Metternich.
On his return from Germany McEvoy joined the English Opera Group, performing in The Church Parables by Benjamin Britten at Snape Maltings. His first operatic roles were with The English Music Theatre Company under the direction of Colin Graham. His roles included Papageno in The Magic Flute, Lysander in The Fairy Queen, the Narrator in the first British performance of Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten and Filch in The Threepenny Opera. For Opera North in Leeds, he sang the role of the Gendarme]] in Les mamelles de Tiresias by Poulenc and he also took part in the Opera North outreach programme taking opera to schools in Yorkshire. For New Sadler's Wells Opera McEvoy sang Baron Schupan in Countess Maritza, Armand Brissard in The Count of Luxembourg, Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore, Giuseppe in The Gondoliers and Ko-Ko in The Mikado. His concert work in the United Kingdom has taken him to the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, The Usher Hall Edinburgh, St Georges Hall, Bradford and The Spa Grand Hall, Scarborough.
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