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Born in Nottingham, Nicholas Sharratt at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.
He made his Glyndebourne debut singing First Prisoner (Fidelio) for Sir Simon Rattle directed by Deborah Warner at the Chatelet Theatre Paris. Other roles Nicholas has performed in for Glyndebourne include Rudolph (Euryanthe) for Mark Elder and directed by Richard Jones. As part of Opera North's award winning Eight Little Greats season he sang Tinca (Il Tabarro) directed by David Pountney, Eusebio (Love's Luggage Lost) conducted by David Parry and Brother (Seven Deadly Sins).
He made his Glyndebourne debut singing First Prisoner (Fidelio) for Sir Simon Rattle directed by Deborah Warner at the Chatelet Theatre Paris. Other roles Nicholas has performed in for Glyndebourne include Rudolph (Euryanthe) for Mark Elder and directed by Richard Jones. As part of Opera North's award winning Eight Little Greats season he sang Tinca (Il Tabarro) directed by David Pountney, Eusebio (Love's Luggage Lost) conducted by David Parry and Brother (Seven Deadly Sins).
Other roles include Tamino (Die Zauberflote) Nemorino (L'Elisir d’amore) for Grange Park Opera, (Dialogues des Carmelites) for IVAI, Fenton (Falstaff) for the Opera Project and the RNCM, Pedrillo (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail for the Opera Project, Ernesto (Don Pasquale) for Mananan Opera, First Prisoner (Fidelio) for the Birmingham Opera Co, Ernesto (La vera costanzaM), Nencio (L'infedelta delusa) for Bampton Opera, and Jack (Into the Woods) for the RNCM. For Wexford Festival Opera, Nicholas played Judge (Schwanda the Bagpiper) and Andres (Maria del Carmen) which was also recorded for NAXOS and BBC Radio 3. His oratorios includes Britten's St. Nicolas, Handel's Messiah, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, Haydn's Creation and Nelson Mass, Mozart's Requiem and Vespers and Bach's Magnificat and B minor Mass.
Nicholas made his St. John’s Smith Square debut singing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
Nicholas made his St. John’s Smith Square debut singing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
He has also appeared as Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for Grange Park Opera in Switzerland and France, Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) in Japan, Hotel Porter (Death in Venice) for Richard Hickox at the QEH, Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) for Garsington Opera and Orfeo for Opera North.
