Mark Glanville read Classics and Philosophy at Oxford University before winning a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Whilst attending the National Opera Studio he made his debut with Opera North. Roles for that company include The King of Clubs (Love for Three Oranges), the King (Aida), Nourabad (Pearl Fishers), Hobson (Peter Grimes) and Father (The Jewel Box). For Scottish Opera he has sung Commendatore (Don Giovanni), for Lisbon Opera, New Israeli Opera and Opera Zuid The King of Clubs, and for Opera Omaha Ferrando (Il Trovatore.) On the concert platform he has performed as Bass soloist with Lord Menuhin, Daniele Gatti, Pascal Tortelier, Sir David Willcocks and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Recordings include Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais and Anna Bolena, Schubert’s Mass in G, ‘A Yiddish Winterreise’ and ‘Di Sheyne Milnerin.’
In 2010/2011 his recital, ‘A Yiddish Winterreise’ was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Symphony Space in New York, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Purcell Room and Leeds Lieder Festival and released as a CD on the Naxos label. A second recital, ‘Di Sheyne Milnerin’, was performed at Symphony Space and St John’s, Smith Square 2011/2012, with a CD released on the Nimbus label. He returned to the Kennedy Center in March 2016 to perform a new programme of Jewish Music, ‘Wandering Stars.’ Mark’s new programme, ‘Citizen of Nowhere: Weinberg, a Sung Life,’ was first performed at Manchester University in 2018 and subsequently at the Purcell Room in February 2019, following which Mark was invited to perform Weinberg songs for Israeli Opera in April 2019. A CD of the programme will be released in 2019.
As a writer Mark has been a contributor to Opera Now, The Singer, Classical Music Magazine, The Royal Opera House magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, The Jewish Quarterly, Mosaic and The Jewish Chronicle. His memoir, The Goldberg Variations (published by Harper Collins 2003/2004), was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Sporting Club Award.ward.
