Anthony Gregory

Hailed by Hugh Canning as the “Mozart tenor to watch,” Anthony Gregory is admired for his unique timbre, stage presence, and musicality. Named by esteemed critic Rupert Christiansen as one of the future operatic stars, he was the 2015 winner in the Breakthrough Artists category by What’s On Stage following his appearance as Peter Quint and Prologue in The Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne on Tour. His successes include appearances with Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real in Madrid, Bergen Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Scottish Opera, and Norwegian National Opera in Oslo.

In the 2023-24 season, Gregory made his company and role debut as the Leper in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, staged by Kent Nagano and Georges Delnon at the Elbphilharmonie with Staatsoper Hamburg. He also returned to Scottish Opera for his role debut as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and to Opera North as Ferrando in Così fan tutte. On the concert stage, he joined the Dunedin Consort for Handel’s Messiah.

Successes from the previous season include much-anticipated debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Pane in David Alden and Ivor Bolton’s production of La Calisto, and at Opéra de Rouen Normandie as Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gregory also returned to Opernhaus Zürich for Christian Spuck’s ballet Monteverdi and to his alma mater, English National Opera, as Colonel Fairfax in Jo Davies’ production of Yeomen of the Guard. On the concert platform, Gregory performed Carmina Burana with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and at the Český Krumlov International Music Festival conducted by Daniel Raiskin, as well as with the Glyndebourne Orchestra and Chorus for Mozart’s Requiem, Britten Sinfonia and Three Choirs Festival for Bach's St. John Passion, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah at Wigmore Hall.

Further recent engagements include his debut at Opernhaus Zürich in the world premiere of Christian Spuck’s ballet Monteverdi; Cégeste in Netia Jones’ production of Philip Glass’ Orphée with English National Opera; the title role of Candide with Bergen Opera; Vafrino in Hipermestra and Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; his debut with Den Norske Opera as Don Ottavio in a new production of Don Giovanni; Oronte in Alcina at Teatro Real in Madrid and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Ouardo in Ariodante for Les Arts Florissants; the title role in Rameau’s Dardanus for English Touring Opera; Florizel in the world premiere of The Winter’s Tale for English National Opera; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Peter Quint and Prologue in The Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne on Tour; Shepherd in L’Orfeo for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Ferrando in Così fan tutte for Opéra de Limoges and English Touring Opera; the world premiere of Stuart MacRae’s Anthropocene at Scottish Opera; Agenore in Il Re Pastore at the Verbier Festival; the title role in Lucio Silla for the Classical Opera Company; and Grimoaldo in Rodelinda at the London Handel Festival conducted by Laurence Cummings.

Highly in demand in concert, Gregory has performed Mercurio in Caldara’s La concordia de’ pianeti with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel in Bucharest at the Enescu Festival and at Theater an der Wien conducted by Andrea Marcon; Damon in Acis and Galatea with Trevor Pinnock in Nida, the Dunedin Consort, and Acis at Stone Nest with La Nuova Musica and the London Handel Festival; Purcell’s Devotional Songs with the English Concert under the baton of Kristian Bezuidenhout; Satyavan in Holst’s Savitri with the Britten Sinfonia under Sir Mark Elder; Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Edinburgh International Festival; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Harry Bicket; a recording with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Linn Records of Cousser’s The Applause of Mount Parnassus and Purcell’s Great Parent, Hail!; Mozart’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a European tour of St. John Passion with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie and with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Dr. Maxwell/Staff Officer in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie, both with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Carmina Burana at the Royal Festival Hall and with the Oslo Philharmonic; St. John Passion with the Oxford Bach Choir; Hugh Wood’s Scenes from Comus with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms; Handel’s Messiah at Cadogan Hall, Wells Cathedral, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English National Opera, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Dunedin Consort, Glyndebourne, and Irish Baroque; Schubert’s Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Haydn’s St. Nicholas Mass and Britten’s St. Nicholas for the St. Luke’s Music Society; Monteverdi’s Vespers with the Armonico Consort; and a solo recital at the Lufthansa Baroque Festival.

A former Harewood Artist at English National Opera, his roles for the company included Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, Young Sailor in Julietta, First Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte, Borsa in Rigoletto, and Haemon in Thebans. Gregory was previously a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne and is an alumnus of the National Opera Studio. He was a member of the Verbier Festival Academy, where he performed the roles of Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Roderigo in Otello alongside Anna Netrebko and under the baton of Valery Gergiev, and also appeared as a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy under Charles Dutoit.