Guest Artist – MMVC Spring Concert 2018
Guest Artist – MMVC Spring Concert 2023
Rory Musgrave, a baritone from Connemara, Ireland, is a graduate from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with a Masters in Vocal Performance, and has gone on to work with all the major Irish opera companies. An OTC Opera Hub Emerging Artist with Opera Theatre Company (2014 – 2016), Rory was also awarded the PWC Emerging Artist Bursary and was awarded the Arnholm Bursary by Wexford Festival Opera.
2018 opera engagements include; Taddeo/L’Italiana in Algeri (Blackwater Valley Festival); Marullo/Rigoletto (Northern Ireland Opera); Eumaeus in The Return of Ulysses to Patria with Opera Collective Ireland.
Recent opera engagements, at 2018, included; Schaunard /La Boheme (Cork Operatic Society); Belcore/L’Elisir d’Amore (Lismore Opera Festival); Smirnoff/The Bear and Magnus/Herculanum (Wexford Festival Opera); Schaunard/La Boheme, Count Gil/Susanna’s Secret (Opera Theatre Company); Gabriel Conroy/James Joyce’s The Dead (Performance Corporation – World Premier); Junius/The Rape of Lucretia (Irish Youth Opera).
Rory made his National Concert Hall debut with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in 2015, as a guest soloist in their Lunchtime Concert Series. Rory is delighted to be making his international operatic debut singing the role of Off Stage Kelvin Solaris for Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
Rory recently made his UK Operatic debut singing the title role of Eugene Onegin for Opera Holland Park’s young Artist Programme, as part of their 2022 season. In 2019 me made his international operatic debut singing the role of Young Kelvin in the Asian premier of Solaris by Dai Fugikura (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Japan) and is set to return to Tokyo in 2023 to reprise this role. Upcoming roles include Marcello/ La Boheme (Cork Oper House),and Alonso, Re di Napoli/La Tempesta (Wexford Festival Opera).
Other recent opera engagements, at 2023, included; White Rabbit/Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Mayor of Youghal/Vagabones, Eumete/The Return of Ulysses, under the baton of Christian Curnyn and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Junius/The Rape of Lucretia (Opera Collective Ireland); Camilo/Ein Wintermarchen, Sextus/What Happened to Lucrece, Smirnoff/The Bear and Magnus/Herculanum, Gaby and various/Bernstein a la Carte, Le Podestat/Dr Miracle (Wexford Festival Opera); Taddeo/L’Italiana in Algeri, Belcore/L’Elisir d’Amore (Blackwater Valley Festival); Marcello/ La Boheme, Germont/ Schaunard /La Boheme, St. Brioche/The Merry Widow (Cork Operatic Society); Schaunard/La Boheme, Count Gil/Susanna’s Secret (Opera Theatre Company); Schaunard/La Boheme, Baron Duphol/La Traviata (Lyric Opera Productions); Gabriel Conroy/James Joyce’s The Dead (Performance Corporation – World Premier); Second Soldier and Namaan/Salome (Northern Ireland Opera).