Artists

Plans for this season and beyond include Rinaldo in Haydn Armida with René Jacobs and the Basel Chamber Orchestra in Warsaw, Vienna and Basel; Don Basilio/Don Curzio Le Nozze di Figaro with Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on tour to Seoul and Shanghai; Tempo in Handel Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, also with Freiburg Baroque; and his débuts at the Opéra national de Paris and Staatsoper Berlin as Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio. Concerts include Evangelist St John Passion on tour with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Daniel Reuss; Messiah with Hallé Orchestra and Dunedin Consort, both with John Butt, and with the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh; Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and McCreesh; and Stravinsky Threni with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Thomas has recently sung the title role in a new production by Tobias Kratzer of Rameau Zoroastre at the Komische Oper Berlin; Purcell Fairy Queen with Stuttgart Opera; Admeto in Gluck Alceste at the Ruhr Triennale; Sospiro in Gassmann L’opéra seria for La Monnaie, Brussels; title role in Rameau Platée for Stuttgart Opera and Don Pedrarias Davila in Peter Sellars’ new production of Purcell The Indian Queen for English National Opera. Past roles include Count Almaviva; Eurimaco The Return of Ulysses; Janek Makropulos Case; Alessandro Il Re Pastore; Quint The Turn of the Screw; Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Lindoro L’Italiana in Algeri; Pélleas; Linfea Calisto; and Letchmere Owen Wingrave for companies including the Royal Opera Covent Garden, ENO, Scottish Opera, Innsbruck Early Music Festival and on tour with Ensemble Matheus.

Recent concerts have included Beethoven Missa Solemnis on tour with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Daniel Reuss; title role in Handel Belshazzar with the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and Ottavio Dantone on a European tour including the Salzburg Festival; Orff Carmina Burana at the BBC Proms; Beethoven Choral Fantasy at the Edinburgh International Festival; Elijah with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Berlioz L’enfance du Christ for the Gulbenkian Foundation and Haydn Die Schöpfung with the Belgian B’Rock Orchestra in Amsterdam. He has also sung Britten Les Illuminations and War Requiem; Stravinsky Pulcinella; Meyerbeer Emma di Resburgo and Tippett A Child of our Time with conductors including Sir Andrew Davis and Jeffrey Tate.

His most recent recording was a highly-acclaimed CD of works by John Blow with Arcangelo, Samuel Boden and Jonathan Cohen.

Bach appearances include St John and St Matthew Passions with the OAE and Mark Padmore and the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh; Bach Mass in F and Easter Oratorio with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Brüggen and Bach (JC, JS and CPE) Magnificat with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (concert and recording).