Conal Coad

Australian opera singer

Conal Coad is an Australian 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).

Career

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
France: Paris, Montpellier, Le Mans, Bordeaux, St Etienne, Nantes, Strasbourg
Italy: Venice, Naples, Bologna
Portugal: Lisbon
Spain: Madrid
Belgium: La Monnaie Brussels, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and Ghent, Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège
Switzerland: Geneva
Germany: Hamburg State Opera
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, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Israel
Japan: Shinjuku Bunka Center, Yupouto Hall, Nakano-Zero Hall, New National Theatre Tokyo

He has worked with major world operatic conductors including Richard Bonynge, Simone Young, Richard Hickox, Jeffrey Tate, Ricardo Abbado, Julia Jones, Wyn Davies, Dobbs Franks and Zubin Mehta. As a director, he directed Don Pasquale for The NBR New Zealand Opera in 2006.

On 18 June 2014, Coad performed with Renée Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan.^[1]^[2]

Operas

Conal has performed in Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Il Seraglio, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Don Carlo, Falstaff, I vespri siciliani, Aida, Rigoletto, Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Let's Make an Opera, Albert Herring, La damnation de Faust, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, L'heure espagnole, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, L'italiana in Algeri, Il turco in Italia, The Queen of Spades, La Bohème, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Norma, Katya Kabanova, Roméo et Juliette, Manon, Mignon, Manon Lescaut, Cendrillon, Fra Diavolo, Der Rosenkavalier, Lulu, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Capriccio, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Gianni Schicchi, Die Meistersinger, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, The Bartered Bride.

References

^ "東京国際コンサート　歌姫ルネ・フレミングをゲストに開催" [Tokyo Global Concert Held – with Renée Fleming as the special guest]. Mostly Classic (in Japanese). 206 (7). Tokyo, Japan: Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd.: 96–97 2014.
^ Tokyo Global Concert – New National Theatre, Tokyo, International Foundation for Arts and Culture (Japan)

Who's Who in Australia
Who's Who in Queensland Australia
Profile at Opera Australia
Blog entry at Prima la Musica
Review^{[permanent dead link]} of Arabella at Australian Stage. Quote: "As Zdenka and Arabella's dreadful parents, Conal Coad and Milijana Nikolic take on the roles of Count and Countess Waldner. Conal Coad is renowned for his great character roles such as Don Pasquale, Leporello and Bartolo to name but a few."