Background
BURROWS, James Stuart was born in Cilfynydd. S. Wales. Son of Albert Burrows and Irene (Powell) Burrows.
BURROWS, James Stuart was born in Cilfynydd. S. Wales. Son of Albert Burrows and Irene (Powell) Burrows.
Trinity College, Camarthen: school teacher until debut Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1967.
Brahmssaal, Vienna; British Broadcasting Corporation television series Stuart Burrows Sings every year since 1978; many recordings, including Die Zauberflote, Don Giovanni, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Louisiana Clemenza di Tito, Louisiana Damnation de Faust, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Eugene Onegin, The Midsummer Marriage, Messiah, Grande Messe des Morts (Berlioz), Les Nuits d"Ete, Das Klagende Lied, Beethoven"s 9th (Choral) Symphony and single discs of Mozart arias, Operetta Favourities, German and French songs, popular ballads and Welsh songs; Honorary Doctorate.Mus. (Wales) 1981.Teacher until debut Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1967. A leading lyric tenor and has sung in world’s major opera houses including San Francisco, Vienna, Paris, Buenos Aires (Theatre Cologne) and Brussels (Theatre de la Monaie) as well as Covent Garden and Metropolitan Opera, New New York Toured Far East with Royal Opera 1979 and sang with company at Olympic Festival, Los Angeles 1984.
Four United States tours with Metropolitan Opera.
Concert appearances throughout Europe and North. America, under Solti, Barenboim, Mehta, Ozawa, Bernstein and Ormandy, including two recitals in Brahmssaal, Vienna. British Broadcasting Corporation television series Stuart Burrows Sings every year since 1978.
Married Enid Lewis in 1957.