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OPERA Neil's lyric tenor vocal skills have been recognised by
a number of opera companies including London Opera Players, Candlelight Opera, Opera Live, Opera Box, London Opera Productions,
City of Birmingham Opera, Chorleywood Opera, Opera School Wales and St.Albans Chamber Opera.
He has appeared as Ferrando
in 'Cosi Fan Tutte' (Mozart) including a recent tour to France and in the UK, Spoletta in Tosca (Puccini), Borsa in Rigoletto
(Verdi), Gastone in 'La Traviata' (Verdi), Remendado in 'Carmen'( Bizet), The Squire in ‘Thomas & Sally’ (Arne),
Capt. Silvio in 'Dr Miracle' (Bizet), King Caspar in 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' (Menotti) and Tamino in 'The Magic Flute’
(Mozart). Operettas include Eisenstein in 'Die Fledermaus' (Strauss), and as a noble in 'Mikado' (Gilbert and Sullivan).
ORATORIO An Oratorio singer in much demand Neil recently
sang the Evangelist in Shutz’s Weinacht Historie, in Handel's Dettingen te Deum, in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and
Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Other works he has sung include Duphy’s The Kingdom of God , Haydn’s Creation , Gounod’s
Messe Solenelle and Handel’s Messiah with the Birmingham Festival Choral Society, Welwyn Choral, Farnborough College singers, the Stour singers and Ampthill Choral Society.
CONCERTS Neil's concert work has included working
with London Opera Productions, Candlelight Opera, Qopera and Opera Live! in such venues as Polesden Lacey NT, Loseley House,
Penshurst Place, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Covent Garden Piazza and Hitchin Priory. He recently performed at the Ampthill
Festival in an operetta evening with soprano Susan Heaton-Wright.
Neil has also performed as a tenor in concert with Guitarists Carlos Bonell, Timothy Walker and Amanda Cook covering
a wide range of repertoire from English Lute song to Spanish and South American songs. He has performed with the Dillington
Festival guitar ensemble in songs by Villa Lobos at the Dillington Guitar Festival, and at the Kendal midday concert club.
He recently performed these again at the Purcell rooms on the South Bank and will be appeared again at Dillington with songs
by Jobim and Bacharach.
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