Recent operatic engagements include performances of Jephtha (Zebul) with Music of the Baroque and Jane Glover, Yeoman of the Guard (Sergeant) and Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte for the English National Opera, and Papageno in the Welsh National Opera’s production of The Magic Flute.
24/25 includes concerts of Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ at the Festival Berlioz La Côte Saint André with Paul McCreesh and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic. Neal will also join Bernard Labadie and the Kansas City Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, make a Messiah concert tour with The English Concert and Harry Bickett, sing Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and join Jonathan Cohen and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Neal will also sing Dr Bartolo in the English National Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro.
Notable collaborations include concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Mariss Jansons, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez, The Cleveland and Philharmonia orchestras under Christoph von Dohnányi, Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Frans Brüggen, English Concert with Harry Bicket, Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh, Hallé Orchestra with Sir Mark Elder, Concerto Koeln under Ivor Bolton, Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Adam Fischer, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra with Edward Gardner, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin with David Zinman, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, and the London Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras under Daniel Harding. He has been a regular guest of the Edinburgh Festival and BBC Proms.
Neal Davies studied at King’s College, London, and the Royal Academy of Music, and won the Lieder Prize at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
