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Justin Lavender was persuaded by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten to abandon
nuclear engineering for music. He made his international debut in The
Pearl Fishers at the Sydney Opera House. In 1990 he made debuts
at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, singing the leading role of Arnold in
Rossini’s spectacular masterpiece William Tell, and at the
Vienna State Opera as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute. His
debut at La Scala, Milan, in the title role of Rossini’s Count
Ory came the following year.
More recent performances have included the title role in Gounod’s Faust at
Covent Garden, Florestan in Beethoven’s Leonore with the Chelsea
Opera Group, Don José with the Welsh National Opera, Loge in Wagner’s Das
Rheingold for the Latvian National Opera and at Norway’s Bergen Festival,
Ruis in Donzetti’s Maria Padilla for Washington Concert
Opera, Pollione in Bellini’s Norma for English Touring Opera,
and Don José again in the Royal Opera’s co-production with the Taiwan
National Symphony.
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