Jonathan McGovern - NOSPR

In recent months British baritone Jonathan McGovern has made a series of significant role debuts, including Don Giovanni for Garsington Opera, Papageno for Staatsoper Hamburg in Jette Steckel’s new production of Die Zauberflöte under Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Kent Nagano, Pelléas in Barrie Kosky’s new production for the Komische Oper Berlin, and L’Orfeo in Barbora Horáková’s new production for Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao. This season Jonathan continues to expand his repertoire, making his anticipated role debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Welsh National Opera under Carlo Rizzi. Elsewhere he reprises the role of Andrei in WNO’s production of War and Peace at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as Don Giovanni with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

On the concert platform recent successes have included Dido and Aeneas at the Concertgebouw under Christian Curnyn, Fauré’s Requiem with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège conducted by Hervé Niquet, Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place with Ensemble Modern under Kent Nagano in Berlin, Dortmund and Dresden, and Carmina Burana at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. This season Jonathan sings Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Das Lied von der Erde with the Natalia Ensemble in Madrid, reprises Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Foster, sings Vaughn William’s iconic Sea Symphony with the Szczecin Philharmonic under Rune Bergmann, and also joins the Early Opera Company on tour in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux under Christian Curnyn.

Highlights elsewhere have included Pelléas for Stadttheater Klagenfurt and in Michael Boyd’s new production for Garsington Opera under Jac van Steen, Calixto Bieito’s new production of Johannes Passion for Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao, Papageno in Netia Jones’ new production of Die Zauberflöte for Garsington Opera, as well as Robert Carsen’s production of Les fêtes vénitiennes with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie on tour in Toulouse and New York.

A gifted recitalist, Jonathan has performed with pianists Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson, Simon Lepper, James Baillieu, Timothy End and James Cheung. In recent seasons he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Musee d’Orsay, deSingel, the Oxford Lieder Festival and London English Song Festival.