Robert Lloyd
CBE
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Robert Lloyd was born in Essex and educated at Oxford University. He began life as an academic historian, turning to a singing career at the age of 28. In 1972 he was appointed Principal Bass at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he sings an enormous repertoire. At the same time, he has developed a freelance operatic and concert career which has brought him to work with all the major Opera Houses and Orchestras throughout the world. Robert Lloyd was the first British Bass to sing the title role in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the late Andre Tarkovsky's production in 1983. History was made in 1990 when the same production went to the Kirov Opera in Leningrad with Robert Lloyd as Boris (televised internationally) and in 1991 he sang in this production again under Claudio Abbado at the Vienna State Opera, He has sung Boris Godunov in Amsterdam and Florence. |
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The roles this remarkable international singer has performed in every opera house in the world are too numerous to mention. Robert enjoys talking about the colourful world of opera, and the lecture circuit is fortunate that he adds a love of speaking to his other great talents. He will take you behind the scenes, you will enjoy hearing about the comic and heart warming things that happen. Still singing at Covent Garden (as a senior artist, as he puts it) he will enthral you and amaze you. Last updated: 14/12/2009| © 2000 Easy-Speak |
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