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 Graham Clark was born in Lancashire, England. Between 1964 and 1975 he was Head of Physical Education in three schools, took a Masters in Recreation Management and was a Senior Regional Officer with the Sports Council. He studied singing with Bruce Boyce in London at the same time and made his professional operatic début with Scottish Opera in 1975.
He was a Principal of English National Opera from 1978 - 1985 and has also sung with the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Opera North and Welsh National Opera in the UK.
He has had an extensive international career since 1976, including:
a) 16 seasons and over 100 performances at the Bayreuther Festspiele (Loge and Mime, Der Ring des Nibelungen - two productions; David, Die Meistersinger; Steuermann, Der fliegende Holländer; Melot and Seemann, Tristan und Isolde). 1981 - 2004
 b) 14 seasons at The Metropolitan Opera, New York (Loge and Mime, Der Ring des Nibelungen; Bégearss, The Ghosts of Versailles - world première; Captain Vere, Billy Budd; Steva, Jenufa; Herodes, Salome; Hauptmann, Wozzeck - two productions; Gregor, The Makropulos Case; Prinz/Marquis, Lulu; Tanzmeister, Ariadne auf Naxos). 1985 - 2006
c) many performances in Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin (Deutsche Oper, Deutsche Staatsoper), Bilbao, Bonn, Brussels, Catania, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Madrid (Real, Zarzuela), Matsumoto, Milan La Scala, Munich, Nice, Paris (Bastille, Champs Élysées, Châtelet, Palais Garnier), Rome, Salzburg, San Francisco, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Vancouver, Vienna, Yokohama, Zurich. 1976 - 2008
d) over 350 Wagner performances including over 250 performances of Der Ring des Nibelungen. 1977 - 2007.
Graham has recorded with BBC, BMG, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Erato, EuroArts, Opera Rara, Opus Arte, Philips, Sony, Teldec, The Met, New York and WDR.
His videos/DVDs include: The Makropulos Case (Canadian Opera, Toronto); The Ghosts of Versailles (The Met, New York); Die Meistersinger, Der fliegende Holländer, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuther Festspiele), Der Ring des Nibelungen (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona), Der Ring des Nibelungen (De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam), Khovanshchina (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona), Wozzeck (Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Opéra National de Paris).
He has sung in many international music festivals including Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bamberg, Berlin, Brussels, Canaries, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Milan, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv, Washington and the London Proms.
He has received three nominations for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Opera" Awards (1983, 1986, 1993), including an American Emmy. He won the Sir Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doktor Faust. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters, Loughborough University, in 1999. |
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