Alastair Miles

Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading basses. Born in Harrow, he studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music before embarking on his highly successful vocal career, during which he has performed at renowned opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Netherlands Opera and La Scala, Milan. He has a stylistically wide repertoire, and has made over seventy recordings.

In the UK Alastair Miles appears regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and English National Opera, as well as Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne. His recent roles include Narbal Les Troyens for Netherlands Opera, Creonte Medea in Corinto for Bayerische Staatsoper, Zaccaria Nabucco for Wiener Staatsoper, Commendatore Don Giovanni and Pogner Die Meistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival, Poliferno Niobe, Regina di Tebe at Covent Garden, Osmin Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the OAE (Labadie), Duke Alfonso Lucrezia Borgia for ENO.

On the concert platform Alastair has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors; recent appearances include Dream of Gerontius and Messiah with Sir Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra, Schumann Faustszenen with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Beethoven 9th Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Alastair’s future engagements include Claudio Agrippina for Opéra de Dijon with Emmanuelle Haim, Daland Der fliegende Holländer for Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte with Daniel Harding at the Lucerne Festival, St Matthew Passion with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Philip II Don Carlo for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.