Stephen Varcoe
| Stephen Varcoe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Stephen Christopher Varcoe 19 May 1949 Lostwithiel |
| Education | Choir of King's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Classical bass-baritone |
| Organization | Betty Roe Society |
Stephen (Christopher) Varcoe (born 19 May 1949 in Lostwithiel) is an English classical bass-baritone singer, appearing internationally in opera and concert, known for Baroque and contemporary music and a notable singer of Lieder.
Stephen Varcoe studied at Cambridge, where he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. In 1977 he won a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation.
On the opera stage he appeared in Haydn's L'infedeltà delusa in Antwerp, in Debussy's Fall of the House of Usher in Lisbon and London, in John Tavener's opera Mary Of Egypt for the Aldeburgh Festival, and he performed the part of Plutone in Peri's Euridice at the Drottningholm Festival in Sweden. He also performed the parts of Death in Gustav Holst's chamber opera Savitri, Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Salieri in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart & Salieri.
He performed Alexander Goehr's Sonata About Jerusalem with Oliver Knussen and the Schoenberg Ensemble, Bach's St Matthew Passion with Trevor Pinnock, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sir John In Love with Richard Hickox and the Northern Sinfonia, and Schubert's Mass in E flat major with Roger Norrington and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
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