Conal Coad

Conal Coad is an opera singer known for his dramatic interpretations of the bass repertoire. He was born in Feilding, New Zealand and resides in Australia (Gold Coast, Queensland) and Belgium (Mechelen).

Career

Conal Coad has performed in many major cities and opera houses around the world including:

• United Kingdom: Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Opera North, Garsington Opera, UK
• France: Paris, Montpellier, Le Mans, Bordeaux, St Etienne, Nantes, Strasbourg
• Italy: Venice, Naples, Bologna
• Portugal: Lisbon
• Spain: Madrid
• Belgium: La Monnaie Brussels, Vlaams Opera Antwerp, Gent Opera, Opera Royale de Wallonie Liège
• Switzerland: Geneva
• Germany: Hamburg State Opera
• Australia: Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne, West Australian Opera, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Tasmania
• New Zealand: Auckland, Wellington and most major centres
• United States: Washington National Opera, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
• Israel

He has worked with major world operatic conductors including Richard Bonynge, Simone Young, Richard Hickox, Jeffrey Tate, Ricardo Abbado, Julia Jones, Wyn Davies, Dobbs Franks and Zubin Mehta. As a director he directed Don Pasquale for NBR Opera New Zealand in 2006.

Operas

Conal has performed in Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Il Seraglio, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Don Carlo, Falstaff, I vespri siciliani, Aida, Rigoletto, Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummernight's Dream, Let's Make an Opera, Albert Herring, La damnation de Faust, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, L'heure espagnol, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, L'italiana in Algeri, Turco in Italia, Queen of Spades, Il ritorno d'Ulisse, Norma, Katya Kabanova, Romeo et Juliette, Manon, Mignon, Manon Lescaut, Cendrillon, Fra Diavolo, Der Rosenkavalier, Lulu, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Capriccio, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Gianni Schicchi, Die Meistersinger, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance.

References

• Who's Who in Australia
• Who's Who in Queensland Australia
• Profile at Opera Australia
• Blog entry at Prima la Musica
• Review of Arabella at Australian Stage. Quote: "As Zdenka and Arabella's dreadful parents, Conal Coad and Milijana Nikolic take on the roles of Count and Countess Waldner. Conal Coad is renowned for his great character roles such as Don Pasquale, Leporello and Bartolo to name but a few."

External links

• Profile at Musichall Ltd

Persondata
Name	Coad, Conal
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death