Richard Wiegold [SEP] voice type
Richard Wiegold
Richard Wiegold (born South Wales 1967) is a bass opera singer.
Education.
Richard Wiegold originally trained as a cellist at the Royal Northern College of Music and had a successful freelance career.
He returned to the RNCM in 1999-2003 as a postgraduate voice student.
Career.
Richard Wiegold appears a soloist with leading companies across the world, and is particularly associated with the operas of Richard Wagner and the role of Il Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
References.
Richard Barrett (composer)
Richard Barrett (born 7 November 1959) is a Welsh composer.
Biography.
Barrett was born in Swansea, Wales. He began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold. There followed fruitful encounters at the 1984 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik with Brian Ferneyhough and Hans-Joachim Hespos. In the 1980s he became associated with the so-called New Complexity group of British