Robert Winslade Anderson

Robert Winslade Anderson sang with us in March 2011 in our performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus.  

 

Robert first studied singing with Norma Fay-Ennevor Robotham in his native Jamaica before going to the Royal Academy of Music as an ABRSM International Scholar. His prizes and awards included the Tom Hammond Opera Prize, the Vice Principal’s Award for Excellence, the Kiwanis International Music Festival Silver Tray, the Oratorio Prize and the Major Van Someren-Godfery Prize for English Song.

As a solo artist Robert has appeared on stage with English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, Opera Holland Park, Brampton Classical Opera and Glyndebourne. His operatic roles include King Phillip and The Monk (Don Carlos), Mephistopheles (Faust), Masetto and Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), 2nd Grail Knight and Titurel (Parsifal), Time and Antinous (The Return of Ulysses) Lodovico (Otello) Mastricco (Le Pescatrici), Mordec (Knight Crew), Basillio (The Marriage of Figaro), Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Buonafede (Il Mondo Della Luna), Lunardo (School of Fathers), 1st Streltsy (Khovanschchina), Captain Petrovich (Eugene Onegin) and Mel (The Knot Garden).

 

As concert, recitalist and oratorio singer, Robert has worked with the Hallé Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Villingen-Schwenningen, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Snape Maltings and The Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Highlights include Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the Verdi Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Haydn’s Nelson Mass.

Future engagements include, Don Fernando (Fidelio) and 2nd Guard Commandant (House of the Dead) for Opera North and Ramphis (Aida) for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall.