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Derek Welton
Bass baritone
Biography
Born in Australia, Derek Welton studied at the University of Melbourne and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before joining the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.
He is regularly invited by institutions such as the Royal Opera House in London, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Bayreuth Festival, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Dutch National Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
His roles include Wotan (Das Rheingold), Amfortas and Klingsor (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Orest (Elektra), Woland (The Master and Margarita), Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Pizarro (Fidelio), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Baron Jaroslav Prus (The Makropulos Affair), Saint-Bris (Les Huguenots), Pandolfe (Cendrillon), and Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro).
Derek Welton has performed in concert in a repertoire that includes St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, and Mass in B Minor by Bach, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Hallé Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Following his return to the Bayreuth Festival as Amfortas in 2024, Derek Welton’s 2024/2025 season includes Pizarro (Fidelio) at the Washington National Opera, King Marke (Tristan und Isolde) and Der Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wanderer (Siegfried) with Concerto Köln, and the Journalist (Ithaka) at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
At the Paris National Opera: Herzog von Albany (Lear), 2019
