Life and career
Shore was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He studied at the University of Bristol, the Royal Northern College of Music and the London Opera Centre. In 1976 he married Fiona Macdonald; they have three daughters. [1]
National and international appearances
Shore made his Covent Garden debut in 1992, playing Baron Trombonok in Il viaggio a Reims . His most recent Covent Garden appearances were as Don Inigo Gomez in L'Heure espagnole in 2007 and 2009. [9] For Glyndebourne he has played Baron Douphol in La traviata (1988), the Mayor in Jenůfa (1990), Mr Gedge in Albert Herring (1990), Falstaff (1990), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (1991), Dr Kolenaty in The Makropulos Affair (1995 and 1997), Dikój in Káťa Kabanová (1998), Bartolo in Le Nozze Di Figaro (2000 and 2012) and Krušina in The Bartered Bride . [10]
Internationally, his Paris Opéra debut was in 1995, as the Sacristan in Tosca, and his US debut was in 1996, as Dulcamara at San Diego Opera. [1] His Met Opera debut was as Dulcamara in 2006 and in 2007 he performed as Ulysses S. Grant in Philip Glass' Appomattox at San Francisco Opera. [11] [12] In 2003 he appeared as Hans Sachs in Opéra de Nantes' production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . [1] For the Lyric Opera of Chicago he has played Falstaff, Rossini's Bartolo, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Dikój, and Pooh-Bah in The Mikado . [4]
Shore has sung the role of Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth, the Liceu, Barcelona, the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires and other houses. [13]
Recordings
For CD, Shore has recorded the roles of Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, the Sacristan in Tosca, Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème, Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love and the title roles in Falstaff, Don Pasquale and Wozzeck. [14] [15] [16] [17]
For DVD, Shore appears as Dr Kolenaty in The Makropulos Case (Glyndebourne), [1] Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne) [18] and multiple roles in Death in Venice (ENO). [19]
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