Iain Paterson
Bass-baritone
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Baritone Iain Paterson is singing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Much sought after for leading Wagner and Strauss roles, he appears regularly at leading opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Engagements during the 2017/18 include his debuts at the Semperoper in Dresden and De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. He sang the title role in The Flying Dutchman for the first time in 2016, at Opera Vlaanderen, where he has also sung Don Giovanni. He returns to Bayreuth this summer, for the third year in a row, singing Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and repeating his portrayal of Wotan in Das Rheingold. He has sung Kurwenal at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Covent Garden and Wotan / Wanderer in Wagner's Ring at the Staatsoper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, Oper Leipzig and the BBC Proms. Other engagements in recent seasons have taken him to places including Brussels, Stuttgart, the Glyndebourne and Edinburgh festivals and Beijing. He also enjoys a busy concert career. Born in Scotland, Iain Paterson studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music before joining the ensemble at English National Opera in London, where he now returns regularly as a guest – most recently for Leontes in the world premiere of Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale and Hans Sachs (role debut) in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.