Owen Brannigan |
Owen Brannigan
Date of birth
10.03.1908
Date of death
09.05.1973
Profession
singer
Voice type
bass
Country
England
He sang in 1940-47 at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Member of the Glyndebourne Festival since 1947. Sang in Covent Garden (also since 1947). The repertoire mainly includes operas by English composers (Britten, M. Williamson, and others). Participated in the world premieres of Peter Grimes, Lamentation of Lucretia, Albert Herring and Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other parts include Leporello, Bartolo, and Banquo in Macbeth. In 1970 he performed with success at the Glyndebourne Festival in the premiere of Op. “Callisto” Cavalli. Among the recordings of the party in a number of op. Britten, in the operettas of A. Sullivan and others.
E. Tsodokov
