NealDavies

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Bass-Baritone & Baritone
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  • Bach's Christmas Oratorio

    St John Smith Square, London
    Dec 2023

  • Parry's Prometheus Unbound

    Sep 2023

    • Neal Davies’s bass is broader than in former years, and all the better suited to the kind of Wotan-size declamation demanded of him here.

    • The four soloists on the disc – Sarah Fox, Sarah Connolly, David Butt Philip and Neal Davies – are all exemplary, as is Vann’s direction, the playing and chorus. This is a historic, sublime and essential recording.

  • Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius

    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
    Jun 2023

    • Neal Davies’ Priest and Angel of the Agony brought gravitas and comfort to Gerontius’ bedside in Part 1, and pleaded imploringly for his soul in Part 2.

    • Neal Davies gave us an authoritative priest and angel of the agony, his oaky tone a welcome contrast.

    • Neal Davies, as the Priest and Angel of the Agony, made himself heard through every texture by a combination of finely projected tone and exemplary enunciation...

  • Mozart's Magic Flute

    Birmingham Hippodrome
    May 2023

    • Bringing stage charisma to the fore was bass-baritone Neal Davies as Papageno, who interpreted the character with a casual informality and humour that matched Evans' libretto perfectly.

  • Handel's Music for the Royals

    City Halls, Glasgow
    Mar 2023

    • Bass baritone Neal Davies was similarly unmistakable, particularly on his solo aria.

  • Gilbert & Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard

    London Coliseum
    Nov 2022

    • And there are excellent performances on stage, particularly from Neal Davies as an avuncular Sergeant Meryll...

    • ...and the bass-baritone Neal Davies, a canny Sergeant Meryll, can sing Handel or Janáček or Ryan Wigglesworth with equal aplomb.

  • Handel's Serse

    St. Martin in the Fields
    May 2022

    • Handel’s Serse returned on Thursday to London, city of its 1738 world premiere, with conductor Harry Bicket, the English Concert, and a cast with no weak link... As Ariodate (father of both Romilda and Atalanta), Neil Davies makes a two-dimensional character lively and believable at every turn.

    • Two quality men supported the phalanx of female power... the always-underrated Neal Davies, looking as if butter wouldn’t melt, gave a more understated but perfectly focused characterisation, this time of smug opportunism which buckles at the last moment.

    • D’Angelo led an outstanding cohort of singers to whom this idiom is now second nature: Paula Murrihy’s fine Arsamene and Daniela Mack’s dark-hued Amastre completed the female dominance in the cast, nobly supported by the male voices of Neal Davies as Ariodate and William Dazeley’s comic Elviro.

  • Mozart's Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso)

    London Coliseum
    Mar 2022

  • Bach's St John Passion

    Battersea Arts Centre, London
    Apr 2021