Nicholas Lester trained in Australia and at NOS. Opera: Schaunard La bohème
(GOT, NR); Marcello (SOSA); Malatesta Don Pasquale, Ping Turandot, Justizrat/Storch Intermezzo, Speaker/Papageno Die Zauberflöte (SO); Bohuš The Jacobin (BFO); Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia, Kuligin Kát’a Kabanová, Doctor/Shepherd Pelléas et Mélisande (OHP); Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (AF); Gianni Schicchi (excerpt-title role) broadcast
by NPO Radio 4. Concert: Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (ENB); Handel Messiah with Laurence Cummings; Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (CBSO); Mozart Requiem (Cadogan Hall); Brahms Requiem (Beijing). Recent and future performances: Guglielmo Così fan tutte (DJO); Frédéric Lakmé (OHP) Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (WNO). Previously for ETO: Marcello Onegin, Figaro The Barber of Seville, Count The Marriage of Figaro, Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream.