Iain Paterson

Iain Paterson Bass baritone

Biography

After studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Iain Paterson made his debut with Opera North. He quickly went on to perform roles such as Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Amfortas (Parsifal), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Jochanaan (Salome), Orest (Elektra), Balstrode (Peter Grimes), and Wotan (in Der Ring des Nibelungen) on major international stages.

He was a member of the English National Opera ensemble and has been invited to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, the BBC Proms in London, and the Edinburgh Festival. He has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on numerous occasions.

In recent years, he has performed Amfortas in Baden-Baden, Wotan and the Wanderer (Siegfried) in Berlin and Vienna, Balstrode in Munich and Hamburg, and Jochanaan in Vienna, Munich, and Florence. During the 2025–2026 season, he will appear as Orest in Munich, Wotan (Das Rheingold) in Berlin, and the Wanderer in Berlin.

At the Paris Opera: Das Rheingold (Fasolt, Wotan), 2010, 2020; Götterdämmerung (Gunther), 2011; Siegfried (the Wanderer), 2020; Die Walküre (Wotan), 2020, 2025; Salome (Jochanaan), 2022; The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow), 2024; The Cunning Little Vixen (the Forester), 2025.

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