Background
DAVIES, Ryland was born on February 9, 1943 in Cwm Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire (now Gwent). Son of Joan and Gethin Davies.
opera and concert singer (tenor)
DAVIES, Ryland was born on February 9, 1943 in Cwm Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire (now Gwent). Son of Joan and Gethin Davies.
Married Deborah Rees, 1983. 1 daughter Educated Royal Manchester College Music.
Europe and United States of America with all major orchestras. Recordings include: The Abduction from the Seraglio, L’Amore dei Tre Re (Montemezzi), La Navarraise (Massenet), The Trojans, Saul, Cosi fan tutte, Therese, Monteverdi Madrigals, Idomeneo, The Seasons (Haydn), Messiah, L’Oracolo (Leone), Judas Maccabaeus, Pulcinella, II Matrimonio Segreto. Video Films include: Don Pasquale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail, Love of Three Oranges, Trial by Jury, Kata Kabanava. Debut as Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Welsh National Opera 1964, subsequent appearances including Tamino in The Magic Flute 1974. Glyndeboume Festival Chorus 1964-1966, taking parts including Tamino, Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, Flamand in Capriccio, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Prince in Love of Three Oranges, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Lenick in Bartered Bride. Appearances with Scottish Opera as Ferrando and as Fenton in Falstaff and as Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, with Sadler’s Wells Opera as Almaviva, Essex in Britten’s Gloriana, with Royal Opera as Hylas in The Trojans, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Fernando, Cassio in Otello, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Almaviva, with English National Opera as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus.
Overseas appearances include Salzburg Festival, at San Francisco, Chicago, Paris, at Metropolitan Opera, New York, Hollywood Bowl, Paris Opera, Geneva, Brussels, Lyons, Amsterdam, Mannheim, Israel, Buenos Aires, Stuttgart, Nice, Nancy, Philadelphia, Berlin, Hamburg. David Meister Singer, La Scala, Milan February 1990. Makes regular concert appearances in Europe and United States of America with all major orchestras.
Married 1st Anne Howells in 1966 (divorced in 1981), 2nd Deborah Rees in 1983, one daughter.