Robert Hayward * (Jokanaan)
Bass-baritone – Redhill, England

Highlights: Jokanaan and Wotan/Wanderer in the Ring (English National Opera); title role in Handel’s Saul (Opera North); Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Houston, Minnesota, Cincinnati, San Diego); title role in Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Bavarian State Opera); the titles roles of The Flying Dutchman and Mazeppa and Khovansky in Khovanshchina for Welsh National Opera; title role in Il prigioniero for Frankfurt Opera; Belshazzar’s Feast with the Bournemouth Symphony, Messiah (London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Northern Sinfonia, Hallé Orchestra) and many other major symphonic works.

After Salome: title roles in Macbeth and Falstaff (Opera North); Simone in Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy, Mandryka in Arabella, and Telramund in Lohengrin for Frankfurt Opera.