Daniel Norman
Tenor
Daniel Norman was a choral scholar at New College Oxford, where he read Engineering. He went on to study in the US and Canada and at the Royal Academy of Music.
Concert performances have included Wozzeck with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Evangelist in Bach St John Passion at the Royal Festival Hall, Tippett A Child of Our Time with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia, Britten Les Illuminations and Mozart Requiem with Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic, Britten Nocturne with Edward Gardner, Britten Serenade in Tel Aviv, Britten St Nicolas at the Gulbenkian in Porto, Stravinsky Les Noces with Martha Argerich, Bach St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw and for the Sønderjyllands Symfonieorkester in Denmark, Beethoven 9th Symphony for Minnesota Orchestra and with Het Gelders Orkest, Holst Savitri with London Sinfonietta, Sam Kaplan in Weill’s Street Scene at the BBC Proms, St John Passion for The King’s Consort (Matthew Halls), Judas in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper for London Sinfonietta in Italy, Argento’s Jonah & the Whale in Boston, Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall, Delius Mass of Life with the BBC Philharmonic, Haydn Stabat Mater with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi, Stravinsky’s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas with the CBSO, Renard (Helsinki, Paris & South Bank), Britten War Requiem for Southbank Sinfonia and for Philharmonia Taiwan, Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus with Oslo Domkor, St John Passion in Milan and Yan Tan Tethera with Britten Sinfonia, Dream of Gerontius at Ely Cathedral (Cambridge Philharmonic Society.
Opera credits include Laca Jenufa at the Longborough Festival and Red Whiskers Billy Budd for Opera North and at Aldeburgh Festival, Judas The Last Supper with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Brabbins), Philip Glass The Trial with Scottish Opera, Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground in Dublin, Mime Das Rheingold for Oviedo Opera, Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw and Dr Blind Die Fledermaus for Glyndebourne on Tour, Borsa Rigoletto (Covent Garden), Goro Madama Butterfly, Tchekalinsky Queen of Spades and title role Joshua with Opera North, Tanzmeister in concert performances of Ariadne auf Naxos with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, Mao in Nixon in China for Opera Boston and at the Teatro Filharmonico for Fondazione di Arena di Verona, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos for L’Opéra National de Paris and Elemer in Arabella and Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro at Garsington, and the Electrician in the Channel 4 film of Adès’s Powder Her Face (Almeida/Aldeburgh), as well as in its Vienna and Boston premieres, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
Further roles include The Golden Dragon for Music Theatre Wales, Arne’s Alfred at the Covent Garden Festival with Early Opera Company, Fenney/Hugo Mines of Sulphur at the Wexford Festival, Bob Boles Peter Grimes at the Endellion Festival, Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Zuid and for Glyndebourne on Tour, Hermes in Tippett’s King Priam with the Nederlandse Reisopera, Eurimaco in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and New Israeli Opera and, to critical acclaim, performed the first official staging of all five Britten Canticles in Westminster Abbey. Daniel also appeared in Corte Real’s The Bronze Boy, in Porto and Lisbon and as White Minister Le Grand Macabre and Squeak Billy Budd for English National Opera, Maxwell Davies Taverner with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Messiah for the Minnesota Orchestra and Carmina Burana for the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Columbia. Further engagements include Donald Crockett’s The Face for The Firebird Ensemble (USA), Red Whiskers Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in New York, a double bill commission The Commission and Café Kafka in an Opera North/Aldeburgh/ROH Linbury collaboration directed by Annabel Arden, and Orlando Gough’s Imago for Glyndebourne. Further engagements include Liberto/Soldier L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Gastone La Traviata, Gheraldo Gianni Schicchi and Offstage Voice La Vida Breve all for Opera North and Powder Her Face for Opera Odyssey, Boston (USA). Recent highlights include Steva Jenufa and L’Abate/Incroyable Andrea Chenier for Opera North, recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Glagolitic Mass at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, Messiah with Oxford Philomusica, St John Passion with the Ulster Orchestra and Dunedin Consort and Moser Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival.
Recordings include four volumes of the Hyperion Schubert Edition with Graham Johnson, the Grammy nominated Beethoven 9thSymphony (Vänsä/Minnesota Orchestra), Maintop in Billy Budd (Hickox/LSO), Adès Powder Her Face on DVD, Slender in Sir John in Love (Hickox/Northern Sinfonia), Janacek Sedmdesat Tisic with the New London Chamber Choir, Orff’s Carmina Burana (Meridian), Brett Dean’s Winter Songs with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS), Hugh Wood’s Comus (BBCSO/A. Davis) and Rimenes in Arne’s Artaxerxes with the Classical Opera Company (Linn). Daniel has also released his debut solo CD: Britten Winter Words and Who Are These Children? with Christopher Gould (BIS).
Recent highlights have included Elijah at the Barbican Hall, Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos for Scottish Opera and for Opera Holland Park, Laurence Osborn’s The Mother for Mahogany Opera, Guard in the première of Emily Howard’s To See the Invisible at Aldeburgh Festival and Mahler 8th Symphony at Ely Cathedral, 1st Jew Salome and Monostatos Die Zauberflöte for English National Opera, The Golden Dragon with the Israel Contemporary Players in Tel Aviv and Hungary, appearances at the Oxford Lieder Festival, War Requiem in Nottingham, Messiah in Oxford and his role debut in the US as Captain Vere Billy Budd for Central City Opera, Colorado.
Engagements in 2019/2020 include Orpheus the Myth in the new production of The Mask of Orpheus for English National Opera, Beethoven 9th Symphony with the Chamber Orchestra of Belgium (Casco Phil) and Dream of Gerontius at Saffron Hall.
