Our Artists
Douglas McNicol
Background: Born in England. Educated in South Australia before undertaking extensive vocal study in Europe. Recipient of Churchill Fellowship (1996). For Opera Queensland: Tereus in The Love of the Nightingale (also for Victorian Opera), Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Valentine in Faust, title role in Le nozze di Figaro. Other engagements/Australia: Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Ned Keene in Peter Grimes, Marcello in La bohème, Ford in Falstaff, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Doctor Falke in Die Fledermaus, Lieutenant in Madeline Lee, title role and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia), Doctor Falke in Die Fledermaus, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, Marcello in La bohème, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Ford in Falstaff, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking, Doctor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, title role in The Marriage of Figaro (State Opera of South Australia), Escamillo in Carmen, title role in Don Giovanni (West Australian Opera), Escamillo in Carmen (Victoria State Opera). International: Title role in Don Giovanni, Scarpia in Tosca, Don Carlo in La forza del destino (Canterbury Opera), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (NBR New Zealand Opera). Concert repertoire: Bach’s Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor and St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Acis and Galatea, The Tempest and The Childhood of Christ, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, the Mozart, Fauré and Brahms Requiems. Engagements include Opera Under the Stars (Broome), The Marriage of Figaro, Salome (Brisbane Festival), La fanciulla del West (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Upcoming engagements: Scarpia in Tosca (Opera Queensland).