Richard Greager
Lecturer in Classical Performance – Voice, Diction and Language
Richard Greager (tenor) teaches Classical Voice and Diction and Language papers.
Originally from Christchurch New Zealand, Richard Greager is an active performer and has performed internationally at major opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand for the last 38 years.
With 83 operatic rôles and 47 major concert works together with an extensive song repertoire to his credit he has some 15 commercially released CDs and DVDs and has recorded extensively for the BBC, NDR, WDR, ABC Classic and Radio New Zealand Concert.
He has had a particular association during his career with The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Opera Australia and has created leading rôles in several world premiers of contemporary opera including Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Paul Grabowsky's Love in the Age of Therapy for Opera Australia.
Career highlights include Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen Adelaide 2004; Alban Berg Lulu, Wozzeck Geneva, Sydney and Melbourne; Benjamin Britten The Turn of the Screw Geneva, Cologne, Sydney and Brisbane and Peter Grimes Sydney, Melbourne and Wellington.
Richard Strauss Salome London, Sydney, Melbourne Auckland
Siegfried, State Opera of South Australia "Richard Greager, as the obsequious Mime, manages a brilliant balance of humorous character-singing and potency, maintaining enough edge and precision to remind us of Mime’s malevolence..."
Peter McCallum Sydney Morning Herald, May Album of the week, May 19- 20, 2007
Richard Greager is widely sought as a voice teacher and vocal adjudicator. He has adjudicated several major competitions in Australasia including the Sydney Sun Aria, MacDonalds Aria, Mobil Song Quest, Lexus Song Quest and New Zealand Aria. He has given many masterclasses and for the past 3 years has been Vocal Tutor at the New Zealand Opera School held during the summer in Wanganui.
Prior to taking the post of Lecturer at the New Zealand School of Music he was an Artist Teacher at the same institution and for some years an external examiner.
Recent Publications:
- Bax, Arnold: Songs – with Patricia Wright (s) Rosemary Barnes(pf), London 1993; CD
- Birtwistle, Sir Harrison: Gawain - Royal Opera House Covent Garden, ROH Orchestra c.Elgar Howarth, world premier 1992 (Winner - 'Gramophone' Contemporary Award 1995); CD/ DVD
- Britten, Benjamin: The Turn of the Screw – Schwetzinger Festspiele, Radio Sinfonie Orchester
- Stuttgart c.Steuart Bedford D. Michael Hampe, Germany 1990; DVD
- Farr, Gareth: Te Papa – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra c.Ken Young, Wellington, 2007; CD
- Wagner, Richard: Das Rheingold Role- Mime, South Australian Opera Ring Cycle. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra c.Ascher Fisch. Adelaide 2004; CD
- Wagner, Richard: Siegfried – role of Mime, South Australian Opera Ring Cycle. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra c.Ascher Fisch. Adelaide 2004; CD
Contact details
phone: +64 4 463 9485
room: 104, 94 Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn Campus
email: richard.greager@nzsm.ac.nz
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