Handel’s Orlando

Zoroastro
Nicholas Warden

Nicholas graduated from Durham University in 1997 and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Recent operatic roles include Caronte (cover) (Orfeo, Monteverdi), conducted by Emmanuelle Haim, in an ongoing European tour, and L’ami in the World Premiere in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, of Francois Cattin’s Et si Bacon…, based on the life of Sir Francis Bacon. Other roles have included the Priest and Hercules (cover), Hercules (Buxton Festival) Supt. Budd Albert Herring (Antwerp, Brugge and Ghent Opera); Bass in Van Hekke’s Icarus (Walpurgis, Antwerp, Tongeren, Amsterdam), Mr.Noye Noyes Fludde and Polyphemus Acis and Gallatea.

Nick’s concert and oratorio work has taken him to many prestigious venues in the UK and abroad. Internationally recognised prizes and scholarships have included, in 2003, a Finalist in the Veronnica Dunne European Union Opera Prize in Dublin, 3rd Prize in the National Mozart Competition in 2002 and a four-year scholarship from the National Federation of Music Societies. Nick’s most unusual and memorable engagement has been to sing solo over the intercom, from the bridge of the QEII cruise ship, to mark the occasion of the first ship returning to New York after 9/11.