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Paul Charles Clarke was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal College of Music with Neil Mackie and was the winner of the 1989 Kathleen Ferrier Competition. Roles include Duke Rigoletto, Fenton Falstaff in Japan and the Edinburgh Festival, High Priest of Neptune Idomeneo, Rodolfo La Boheme, Alfredo La Traviata and the title role in Faust for Welsh National Opera; Alfredo and Nemorino L’Elisir D’amore for Scottish Opera; Rodolfo and Dmitri Boris Godunov for Opera North; Froh Das Rheingold, Cassio Otello, Tybalt Romeo and Juliette and Alfredo for the Royal Opera House. Internationally his roles have included Duke Rigoletto and Alfredo for Seattle Opera, Jenik The Bartered Bride and Romeo Romeo et Juliette, for the Metropolitan Opera, New York and Macduff Macbeth for Monte Carlo. He has also sung Duca Rigoletto for Scottish Opera and Pinkerton Madame Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera, Rodolfo in Seattle and Alfredo La Traviata in Cincinnati. He has recorded Tybalt Romeo et Juliette with Slatkin for BMG and Arturo Lucia conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for Sony, and more recently recorded the title role in Fause with David Parry for Chandos. Other
engagements have included Pinkerton for Welsh National Opera, Alfred
Die Fledermaus and Kudryas Katya Kabanova with Mackerras at the
Met, New York, Anatol Vanessa for the Seattle Opera, Pinkerton Butterfly,
his debut role with the Deutsche Opera, Berlin and the title role
in Faust for the Minnesota and Cincinnati Opera Companies. He also
sang Tamino Die Zauberflote with the Seattle Opera and in 1999 he
took part in a major European tour with the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in performances of
Beethoven Symphony 9 which he also sang with the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra. He sang in Elijah conducted by Sir Andrew Davis with
the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome followed by Gabriele Adorno
Simon Boccanegra in the New Zealand Festivval of the Arts and Pinkerton
Butterfly at the Met in the Parks Festival. He recently sang the
Duca Rigoletto for the Santa Fe Opera and Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor
in Seattle.
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Paul
Charles Clarke - Tenor