Nicholas Merryweather

Nicholas Merryweather graduated from University College London in 2003 with a degree in Modern Languages, and is now in his second year of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is a pupil of Rudolf Piernay. In 2001 and 2002 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany, where he performed in numerous recitals and concerts and took the roles of Belcore and Papageno.

His oratorio experience includes performances of Handel Messiah, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony and Five Mystical Songs, Orff Carmina Burana, Mozart Requiem and the world premiere of Karl Jenkins' Armed Man Mass for Peace at the Royal Albert Hall, which he later recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Amongst Nicholas' operatic roles are Escamillo, Dandini, Count Almaviva, Aeneas, Leporello, Figaro in Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Schaunard, Benoit, Alcindoro and Pope Clement in Berlioz'Benvenuto Cellini. He has sung for five seasons with Bampton Classical Opera, with whom he has taken roles in operas such as Storace's Gli Equivoci, Haydn's La Vera Costanza and Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni. He has also sung with University College Opera, Buxton Festival, and in the chorus at the Salzburg Easter Festival. Plans include Count in Capriccio (GSMD).