Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor

After moving from Toronto in 1995, Canadian tenor Adam Tunnicliffe studied at Wells Cathedral School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar. As a postgraduate he studied performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He continues to study singing with Russel Smythe and now has a varied freelance career performing operas and oratorios. Operatic roles include Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Beppe in Donizetti's Rita, Prince Phillipe in Lennox Berkeley's A Dinner Engagement as well as Fracasso in Mozart's La Finta semplice, Don Pelagio in Haydn's La Canterina, Chavalier in Rossini's Le Conte d'Ory, Enoch in Nancy the Waterman by Stephen Dodgson, First Priest in Mozart's The Magic Flute with British Youth Opera, and Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Adam will be playing the title role in Britten's Albert Herring in June 2008, and sings Artebantes in Arne's Artexerxes with New Chamber Opera in July.