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The Welsh baritone, Stephen Pritchard Roberts, studied from 1969 to 1971 at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal School of Music in London. From 1972 to 1976 he was active as Lay Clerk in the Choir of Westminster Abbey London and then started a great concert career on international level.
Stephen Roberts sang with the major orchestras and choirs in England, in the rest of Europe, in the USA, in Canada and Israel, in Hong Kong, Singapore and in South America. Apart from a broad concert repertoire, which had its high points in vocal works from the Baroque period, he sang a number of opera roles, mostly in concertant performances of the works: the Count in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Falke in Fledermaus, Ubalde in Armide by Gluck, Ramiro in L'Heure espagnole by Ravel, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, Don Quixote in El Retablo de Maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla and Gregor Mittenhofer in Elegy for Young Lovers by H.W. Henze. On the English television he appeared in War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, in Sieben Todsünden by Weill, in George Frideric Handel’s oratorios Jephtha and Judas Makkabaeus and in Sea Drift by F. Delius. In 1989 he appeared in London as soloist in the Magnificat (BWV 243) by J.S. Bach, in 1990 in the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and in G.F. Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. In Washington he performed the bass-solo in the C minor Mass of W.A. Mozart, with The Bach Choir London sang in Symphony No. 8 of Gustav Mahler and in Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) by J.S. Bach.
Stephen Roberts taught at the Royal College of Music in London.
Recordings: Decca (Carmina Burana by C. Orff, Mass in E major by W.A. Mozart, Patroklus in King Priam by Tippett, Lukas-Passion by K. Penderecki), Telefunken (Alexander's Feast by G.F. Handel), HMV (Sacred Music of Charpentier, Armide by Gluck), TIS (Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams), Chandos (The Apostles and Cataractus by Edward Elgar), Virgin (A Sea Symphony by R. Vaughan Williams), Koch Records (Mass and Canticum Sacrum by Igor Stravinsky). |
