George Humphreys
About
George Humphreys was born in Oxford and educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music and the International Opernstudio Zürich. His recent Operatic appearances include Don Giovanni, Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro and Valentin in Gounod's Faust, all at the Salzburger Landestheater, Eugene Onegin at the Buxton Festival, Leporello in the Nederlandse Reisopera's production of Don Giovanni, and roles at English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recent concert highlights include Mahler Symphony No.8 with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Bach's Weihnachts Oratorium with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Dido and Aeneas at the Wigmore Hall, the Matthäus Passion at the London Handel Festival and performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Gabrieli Consort, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has given Lieder recitals at Lille Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Oxford Lieder Festival and he was recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is currently a member of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater.
Recent reviews:
"The dominant performance comes, as it should, from George Humphreys's Duke, wonderfully convincing as the handsome sensualist whose passions gradually coalesce into obsession. He's in superb command of Sciarrino's elusive style, too. "
The Guardian by Tim Ashley (Duke in The Killing Flower, Music Theatre Wales)
"(...) George Humphreys is gripping as the blind minstrel with the mesmerising voice."
Timeout by Jonathan Lennie (Jake Wallace in The Girl of the Golden West, ENO)
"I suspect that George Humphreys's excellent Pish-tush - an Ostrich-like cleric with very wandering hands - is a tad more bisexual than the same character in 1986. "
The Times by Richard Morrison (Pish-tush in The Mikado, English National Opera)