Conal Coad

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Conal Coad is an opera singer known for his dramatic interpretations of the bass repertoire. He was born in Feilding,New Zealand and resides in Australia (Gold Coast, Queensland) and Belgium (Mechelen).

1 Career
2 Operas
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Conal Coad has performed in many major cities and opera houses around the world including:

United Kingdom: Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Opera North, Garsington Opera, UK
France: Paris, Montpellier, Le Mans, Bordeaux, St Etienne, Nantes
Italy: Venice, Naples
Portugal: Lisbon
Spain: Madrid
Belgium: La Monnaie Brussels, Vlaams Opera Antwerp, Gent Opera, Opera Royale de Wallonie Liege
Switzerland: Geneva
Germany: Hamburgische Staatsoper
Australia: Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne, West Australian Opera, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Tasmania
New Zealand: Auckland, Wellington and most major centres
United States: Washington National Opera
Israel

He has worked with major world operatic conductors including Richard Bonynge, Simone Young, Richard Hickox, and Zubin Mehta. As a director he directed Don Pasquale for NBR Opera New Zealand in 2006.

[edit] Operas

Conal has performed in Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Don Carlo, Falstaff, I Vespri Siciliani, Aida, Rigoletto, Billy Budd, Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummernights Dream, Let's Make an Opera, Albert Herring, La Damnation de Faust, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, Capriccio, l'Heure Espagnol, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L'Elisir d'Amore, L'Italiana in Algeri, Turco in Italia, Queen of Spades, Il Ritorni d'Ulysse, Lulu, Norma, Katya Kabanova, Romeo et Juliette, Manon, Mignon, Manon Lescaut, Cendrillon, Der Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Die Walkurie, Gianni Schicchi, Die Meistersinger, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance.

[edit] References

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