Iain Paton

Iain Paton’s recent successes have included FILIPPO in Haydn’s L’Infedeltà delusa, conducted by Jeremie Rohrer, for Aix en Provence, Lloyd-Webber’s Requiem in Poland, ARBACE Idomeneo with City of Birmingham Opera directed by Graham Vick, and Handel’s L’Allegro with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco. In addition to Powder Her Face at the Royal Opera Covent Garden this season,he further appears asBORSA Rigoletto and POISSON Adriana Lecouvreur. 2011 will see him return to Garsington Opera as MONOSTATOS Zauberfloete.

Born in Scotland he first rose to international fame replacing Plàcido Domingo as tenor soloist in Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in Australia, New Zealand and Norway. He followed this in 1997 as PEDRILLO in Die Entführung aus Dem Serail for Opéra national du Rhin , conducted by William Christie, with whom he also recorded the opera for Erato. Other UK highlights have included TAMINO Magic Flute and SHEPHERD Tristan und Isolde for Scottish Opera, as well as recording the role of EURIMACHOS in Dallapiccola's Ulisse for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. He sang a critically-acclaimed FERRANDO in a new production of Così fan tutte with De Vlaamse Opera, the title role in The Rake’s Progress in Berlin, LENSKY Eugene Onegin for Opera North, Acis and Galatea with the Philharmonia Baroque in San Franciscoand Britten’s Gloriana with Opera North in Barcelona.

More recent successes have included ALBERT HERRING for Opera North, sang ORONTE Alcina at the Göttingen Festival, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, and BEPPE in I Pagliacci at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2006 he sang ALMAVIVA in Dijon, BELFIORE La Finta Giardiniera at the Zürich Opera, PUBLIO Il Sogno di Scipione in Klagenfurt, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in San Francisco, ASTROMONTE Der Stein der Weisen for Garsington Opera, and last year made his Salzburg Festival début as PUBLIO.

His vast concert experience has included Messiah with the Rias Kammerchor and Freiburger Baroque Orchestra in Montreux and Paris, Il Primo Omicidio conducted by Rene Jacobs at the Innsbruck Festival, Britten's War Requiem in Istanbul, and Haydn’s The Seasons with the Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco. Most recent projects include Handel’s L’Allegro at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, ALBERT HERRING in Tokyo in 2007, and this year FLUTE A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opéra National de Lyon.