Career
He is currently the RNCM"s Tutor in French Song. He joined the Glyndebourne Opera Chorus for 1977 and 1978, singing leading roles on tour, and since then has performed over seventy roles with opera companies throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, including at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and Scottish Opera. Notable among his roles are the Count (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo and Alfonso (Così fan tutte), the title role in Don Giovanni, Germont (Louisiana Traviata), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Doctor Falke (Die Fledermaus), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Smirnov (William Walton"s The Bear), and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night"s Dream), which he recorded for Virgin Records.
Herford has made a speciality of the music of Charles Ives, having recorded many of his songs.