Conal Coad is an Australian opera singer known for his dramatic interpretations of the

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repertoire. He was born in Feilding, New Zealand, and resides in Australia (

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) and Belgium (

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Career

Coad has performed in many major cities and opera houses around the world including: * United Kingdom: Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Opera North, Garsington Opera * France: Paris, Montpellier, Le Mans, Bordeaux, St Etienne, Nantes, Strasbourg * Italy: Venice, Naples, Bologna * Portugal: Lisbon * Spain: Madrid * Belgium: La Monnaie Brussels,

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Antwerp and Ghent, Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège * Switzerland: Geneva * Germany:

Hamburg State Opera The Hamburg State Opera (in German: Staatsoper Hamburg) is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since 2015, the current ''Intendant'' of the company is Georges Delnon, and the current ''General ...

* Australia: Opera Australia,

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, Melbourne,

West Australian Opera West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth. The company formed in 1967 and works in close association with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. It pr ...

, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Tasmania * New Zealand: Auckland, Wellington and most major centres * United States: Washington National Opera,

Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...

* Israel * Japan:

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Bunka Center, Yupouto Hall, Nakano-Zero Hall, New National Theatre Tokyo He has worked with major world operatic conductors including

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, Simone Young, Richard Hickox, Jeffrey Tate, Ricardo Abbado, Julia Jones, Wyn Davies, Dobbs Franks and Zubin Mehta. As a director, he directed '' Don Pasquale'' for The NBR New Zealand Opera in 2006. On 18 June 2014, Coad performed with Renée Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and

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at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan.Tokyo Global Concert – New National Theatre, Tokyo
International Foundation for Arts and Culture (Japan)

Operas

Conal has performed in '' Le nozze di Figaro'', ''

Così fan tutte (''All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers''), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte w ...

'', '' Il Seraglio'', '' Die Zauberflöte'', ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

'', '' Don Carlo'', ''

Falstaff Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays '' Henry IV, Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', w ...

'', '' I vespri siciliani'', '' Aida'', '' Rigoletto'', ''

Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'' is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quick ...

'', '' Peter Grimes'', '' The Rape of Lucretia'', ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'', '' Let's Make an Opera'', '' Albert Herring'', '' La damnation de Faust'', '' Fidelio'', '' The Barber of Seville'', ''

L'heure espagnole ''L'heure espagnole'' is a French one-act opera from 1911, described as a ''comédie musicale'', with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play ('comédie-bouffe') of the same nameStoullig E. '' ...

'', '' Lucia di Lammermoor'', '' Don Pasquale'', ''

L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (''The Elixir of Love'', ) is a ' (opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's ' (1831). The opera premiere ...

'', '' L'italiana in Algeri'', ''

Il turco in Italia ''Il turco in Italia'' (English: ''The Turk in Italy'') is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (w ...

'', '' The Queen of Spades'', '' La Bohème'', ''

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' (Stattkus-Verzeichnis, SV 325, ''The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland'') is an List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi, opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Montever ...

'', '' Norma'', '' Katya Kabanova'', '' Roméo et Juliette'', ''

Manon ''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first ...

'', '' Mignon'', ''

Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...

'', ''

Cendrillon ''Cendrillon'' (''Cinderella'') is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. It had its premiere performance on 24 ...

'', '' Fra Diavolo'', '' Der Rosenkavalier'', '' Lulu'', ''

Arabella ''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Performance history It was first performed on 1 July 1933 at the Dr ...

'', '' Ariadne auf Naxos'', '' Capriccio'', '' Lohengrin'', '' Die Walküre'', '' Gianni Schicchi'', '' Die Meistersinger'', '' The Mikado'', '' The Pirates of Penzance'', '' The Bartered Bride''.

References

* Who's Who in Australia *Who's Who in Queensland Australia
Profile
at Opera Australia
Blog entry
at ''Prima la Musica''
Review
of ''

'' at ''Australian Stage''. Quote: "As Zdenka and Arabella's dreadful parents, Conal Coad and

Milijana Nikolic Milijana Nikolic (or Nikolić; sr-Cyrl, Милијана Николић; born 1975) is an operatic mezzo-soprano. Education Nikolic was born in Sremska MitrovicaSremska Mitrovica was then in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, today i ...

take on the roles of Count and Countess Waldner. Conal Coad is renowned for his great character roles such as Don Pasquale, Leporello and Bartolo to name but a few."

External links

Profile
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