Artists

This season Thomas will sing Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Reuss; Arnalta in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden; Mozart Mass in C minor and Rossini Petite messe  solenelle with Daniel Reuss and Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne; Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with the Bath Festival Orchestra and Oberon in Purcell The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottsteater.

The 2021/22 season included performances of Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in Budapest, Geneva and Vicenza and a return invitation to the Orchestre National de Belgique for Mozart Mass in C minor at the Bozar, Brussels with Riccardo Minasi; and Evangelist St Matthew Passion with Daniel Reuss and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Other concerts included Messiah with Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg conducted by Klass Stok; Tristan in Frank Martin Le vin herbé with Cappella Amsterdam and Bach at Wigmore Hall with Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh.

Previous highlights include Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the Bozar with the Orchestre National de Belgique and Hugh Wolff, JS, JC and CPE Bach Magnificat with Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen as well as the title role in Handel Belshazzar, Haydn Die Schöpfung, Orff Carmina Burana and Berlioz L’enfance du Christ for the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, the Gulbenkian Foundation and at the BBC Proms.

Thomas recently made his debut at both Opéra national de Paris and the Staatsoper Berlin as Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio. Other recent roles include Admeto in Gluck Alceste at the Ruhr Triennale and Rinaldo in Haydn Armida on tour with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, both with René Jacobs; the title role in Rameau Zoroastre at the Komische Oper Berlin; Purcell The Fairy Queen and title role in Rameau Platée for Staatsoper Stuttgart, and Sospiro in Gassmann L’opera seria at La Monnaie, Brussels. He has also sung Pélleas; Alessandro Il Re Pastore; Quint The Turn of the Screw; Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lechmere Owen Wingrave for companies including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Innsbruck Early Music Festival.

He has recorded a wide variety of repertoire including Janáček choral works and Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Cappella Amsterdam conducted by Daniel Reuss; Bach Magnificats with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen; and Honegger Le Roi David with Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and Daniel Reuss.