Gordon Wilson

Gordon Wilson was born in Motherwell and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he gained a B.A Music Performance and also studied for two years in the Opera School. While at the RSAMD he won a Sir James Caird Scholarship to study in London with the renowned Scottish tenor William McAlpine. He then made his operatic debut with Opera 80 as Edgardo in Lucia Di Lammermoor and The Duke in Rigoletto.

A period at Glyndebourne Festival Opera followed where he understudied major roles and performed small principal roles. Subsequent operatic roles include for Opera North; The Duke in Rigoletto, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Troilus in Troilus & Cressida and Riccardo in Verdi's Oberto. For The Royal Opera Covent Garden; Nathaneal The Tales of Hoffman,  Riccardo in Cherubin. For Glyndebourne; Jenik in the Bartered Bride, Hotel Porter in Death in Venice. For Opera du Rhin Strasbourg; Macheath in Britten’s The Beggars Opera. For Welsh National Opera; The Duke , Rigoletto. For Opera Northern Ireland; Manrico in Il Trovatore, Jenik in The Bartered Bride. He was also chosen to record the title role in Il Trovatore for European Chamber Opera which was funded by a trust set up by Freddie Mercury to record an opera using young singers.

Televised productions include the world premiere of Judith Weirs’ The Vanishing Bridegroom for Scottish Opera. The role of Mr. Blifil in Tom Jones at the prestigious Drottningholm Festival in Stockholm and the role of Laca in Jenufa for the BBC2 programme “Opera Bites”. Also for the BBC, Gordon has recorded various contemporary compositions and has sung in “Friday Night is Music Night”.

Gordon also has a wide concert repertoire and has performed in many Gala Evenings including for Raymond Gubbay, the “Classical Spectacular Evenings” in the major Arenas throughout the UK.