The British tenor Toby Spence will supply Soile Isokoski
for the first recital of the season

An honours graduate and choral scholar from New College, Oxford, Toby Spence studied at the Opera School of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In concert, Toby has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra under von Dohnanyi, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic under Rattle, the San Francisco Symphony under Tilson Thomas, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Pappano, the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Gergiev, the London Symphony Orchestra under Davis, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Nezet-Seguin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Dudamel, and at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals under Norrington and Mackerras. Toby sang an acclaimed Madwoman in Britten’s “Curlew River” for the Edinburgh Festival, where he has also appeared in recital. Other recitals include the LSO St Lukes and the Wigmore Hall, and he has made numerous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, BMG, Philips, Collins, Linn Records, Hyperion and EMI.

For the English National Opera, Toby has sung Fenton, Ferrando, Tamino, Candide, Paris (“La Belle Hélène”) and Faust, and for the Royal Opera, Kudryash, Simpleton (“Boris Godunov”), Ferdinand (“The Tempest”), Count Almaviva, Ramiro and Tom Rakewell. He has also sung with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Monnaie, Brussels, the Netherlands Opera, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera.

This season, Toby makes his debut with the Vienna State Opera as Ferrando, sings his first Lensky for ENO, sings David (“Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”) for the Royal Opera and makes a return to the Metropolitan Opera. In concert he appears with Minkowski, Ades, Harnoncourt, Bychkov, Nelsons, Ticciati, Nezet-Seguin and Rattle.

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Tenor Toby Spence supplies Soile Isokoski
Piano Julian Milford

Programme
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) An die ferne Geliebte op.98
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Tel jour, telle nuit
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Dichterliebe op.48

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) An die ferne Geliebte op.98
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Tel jour, telle nuit
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Dichterliebe op.48