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Gerald Finley - Baritone

Wigmore Hall, 13-Jun-2024 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 28-Jan-2024 / 19:30

Mendelssohn: Elijah

Wigmore Hall, 9-Jan-2022 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

Favourite pieces

Schubert's Wandrers Nachtlied II D768 and Der Winterabend D938 performed in 2022 (January) and 2019 (June, 15).

Schubert's Liebesbotschaft from Schwanengesang D957 performed in 2022 (January) and 2014 (May).

Royal Festival Hall, 30-Sep-2020 / 20:00

  • Sibelius: 7 Songs arr. Rautavaara for baritone & orchestra (In the Stream of Life)
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Edward Gardner - Conductor

Wigmore Hall, 26-Sep-2020 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

  • Fauré:
    • Chanson d’amour Op. 27 No. 1
    • Aurore Op. 39 No. 1
    • Les berceaux Op. 23 No. 1
    • L'horizon chimérique Op. 118
    • Après un rêve Op. 7 No. 1
  • Duparc:
    • Sérénade
    • Le manoir de Rosemonde
    • L'invitation au voyage
    • Phidylé
  • Barber:
    • Bessie Bobtail Op. 2 No. 3
    • Nocturne Op. 13 No. 4
  • Ives:
    • The Housatonic at Stockbridge
    • Memories: a. Very Pleasant, b. Rather Sad
    • 1, 2, 3
  • Harold Arlen:
    • It's Only a Paper Moon (arr. Stephen Higgins)
    • Last Night When We Were Young (arr. Stephen Higgins)
  • Cole Porter: The Tale of the Oyster from Fifty Million Frenchmen
  • Copland: Ching-a-ring chaw from Old American Songs II

Finley's concerts, unfortunately, cancelled due to the pandemic

On the 23rd of September 2020 at the Royal Festival Hall.

On the 15th of September 2020, a song recital, at the Wigmore Hall.

On various dates in June and July 2020, in the role of Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House.

On the 7th of April 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.

He sang a lot of roles amongst them 'Elderly fop' and 'Voice of Dionysus' in Britten's Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House on various dates in November and December 2019.

Royal Albert Hall, 20-Aug-2019 / 19:30

  • Koechlin: Les bandar-log
  • Varese: Amériques (original version,1921, 25 mins)
  • Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast (34 mins)
  • Orfeo Catala, Orfeo Catala Youth Choir
  • London Symphony Chorus
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Sir Simon Rattle - Conductor

Barbican Hall, 27th and 29th of June 2019

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (semi-staged performances, sung in Czech)

  • London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle - Conductor, Lucy Crowe as Vixen, Gerald Finley as Forester, Sophia Burgos as Fox and Chocholka, Peter Hoare as Schoolmaster, Cock and Mosquito, Jan Martiník as Badger and Parson, Hanno Müller-Brachmann as Haraschta, Paulina Malefane as Forester's Wife, Owl and Woodpecker, Anna Lapkovskaja as Mrs Pasek, Jonah Halton as Pasek, London Symphony Chorus, LSO Discovery Voices

Stanford: . 117

Wigmore Hall, 15-Jun-2019 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

  • Schubert:
    • Meeres Stille D216
    • Willkommen und Abschied D767
    • An den Mond D259
    • Rastlose Liebe D138
    • Die Sterne D939
    • Der Kreuzzug D932
    • Der Wanderer an den Mond D870
  • and further songs by Schubert, Rachmaninov, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Britten

Barbican Hall, 3-Mar-2019 / 19:30

Mr. Finley performed a song recital at Middle Temple Hall on the 2nd of October 2018.

Royal Albert Hall, 8-Sep-2018 / 19:15

Mr. Finley performed the role of Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera House on January the 15th and on further dates in January and February 2018.

Mr. Finley withdrew from his planned performance in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust on the 17th and 19 th of September 2017 due to having to recover from having had appendicitis. For more programme details see Karen Cargill

He also withdrew from a song recital at the Wigmore Hall on the 9th of September 2017 due to appendicitis.

Barbican Hall, 25-Apr-2017 / 19:00

John Adams: Doctor Atomic

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams - Conductor, Gerald Finley as Dr Robert J Oppenheimer, Julia Bullock as Kitty, Brindley Sherratt as Edward Teller, Andrew Staples as Robert Wilson and physicist, Jennifer Johnston as Pasqualita, Aubrey Allicock as General Leslie Groves

Mr. Finley performed:

  • > in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius as a Bass together with Alice Coote, Allan Clayton - Tenor, the London Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Mark Elder at the Barbican Hall on the 24th of April 2016.
  • > with Angela Hewitt on the 31st of May 2015 at the Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 21-Mar-2015 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

Royal Albert Hall, 27-Jul-2014

Wigmore Hall, 31-May-2014 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

Wigmore Hall, 29-Mar-2014 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

Wigmore Hall, 15-Jan-2014

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

Barbican Hall, 12-Jan-2014

Haydn: The Creation (sung in English)

Gerald Finley made his BBC Proms debut, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, in the role of Kuligin in Janáček's Katya Kabanova on the 24th of August 1990.