Born in Manchester, Clive Bayley performs on the greatest opera stages. In 2014, he made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera as the Doctor (Wozzeck). He sings Astradamos (Le Grand Macabre) in San Francisco, the title role in Don Quixote and Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) at Grange Park Opera, Géronte (Manon Lescaut) and Achille (Giulio Cesare) in Munich and Fasolt (Das Rheingold) in Strasburg. His repertoire also includes the roles of Kecal (The Bartered Bride), Rocco (Fidelio), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande), Titurel (Parsifal) and Sylvano (La Calisto). At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he portrayed Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Colline (La Bohème) and Hunding (Die Walküre). Other engagements include the title-role in Battistelli’s Julius Caesar in Rome, Swallow (Peter Grimes) in Madrid and Frankfurt, the title-role in Ivan the Terrible, Capulet (Romeo and Juliet) and the Sacristan (Les Voyages de M. Broucek) at the Grange Park Opera, the Judge and the Commissioner (Philip Glass’s Orphée), Claggart (Billy Budd) in Göteborg and Frankfurt, Publio (La clemenza di Tito) in Glyndebourne and the First Nazarene (Salomé) in Edinburg. Recent and upcoming projects include Swallow (Peter Grimes) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and 'English National Opera, Daland in Opera North, Savjol Prokofjevi Dikój (Kátia Kabanová) at Grange Park Opera, Somnus / Cadmus (Sémélé) in Glyndebourne, the Prison Governor (From the House of the Dead) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Basilio (The Barber of Seville) at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.

He recorded the Ring, portraying the roles of Fafner and Hunding under the baton of Sir Mark Elder. His discography also includes Candide with Leonard Bernstein and recordings with Les Arts Florissants.

At the Paris Opera: Œdipe (Tirésias), 2021; Peter Grimes (Swallow), 2023; Hamlet (Spectre of the dead king), 2023; The Exterminating Angel (Doctor Carlos Conde), 2024

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