Toby Spence

While gratuating in Oxford, he studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is a recipient of the Singer of the Year Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society 2011. His recent engagements include the roles of Ghandi (Satyagraha), Paris (La Belle Hélène), Lensky (Eugène Onéguine) and the title role of Faust by Gounod at the English National Opera, Captain Vere (Billy Budd) in Madrid, Rome and London, Anatol (Vanessa) in Frankfurt, Don Ottavio (Così fan tutte ) in Barcelona, Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) and Antonio (La Tempête d'Adès) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Don Ottavio and Tito (La Clémence de Titus) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Essex (Gloriana) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Covent Garden in London, where he premiered the role of Antonio (The Tempest), the roles of David (The Master Singers of Nuremberg), Almaviva (The Barber of Seville), Ramiro (La Cenerentola) and Tom Rakewell ( The Rake's Progress). He also plays Madwoman (Curley River) at the Edinburgh Festival, Tito, Tamino and Henry Morosus (The Silent Woman) in Munich, Tom Rakewell and David (Maîtres Chanteurs) at the Paris Opera, Bénédict (Béatrice et Bénédict) with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Tito in Berlin. During the 2019/20 season, he was Pylades (Iphigénie en Tauride) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the title role of Lazarus with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Florestan (Fidelio) at the Stavanger Concert Hall and the Garsington Opera as well as Osud from Janacek in Brno. He performs very regularly in recital and in concert with the most prestigious groups in works such as Das Klagen des Lied de Mahler, Die erste Walpurgisnacht by Mendelssohn with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Le Chant de la Terre by Mahler at São Carlos in Lisbon. , The Dream of Gerontius with the Slovak Philharmonic. At the OnR he sang in La Tempête in 2004.

Update May 2020