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Lyric bass Trevor Eliot Bowes was born in Victoria, Canada and studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is a former Britten Pears Young Artist and an alumnus of Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artists programme.
In the current season performances include Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia (English Touring Opera); Dick Deadeye HMS Pinafore (English National Opera); Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia (Lyric Opera Ireland); Argenio Imeneo (Cambridge Handel Opera Company); and concerts with the Ulster Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, and Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Among his recent highlights are Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Festival Opera); Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro (The Mozartists); Alidoro La Cenerentola (Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival, Early Music Society of the Islands); Seneca The Coronation of Poppea, Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress, Colline La bohème (English Touring Opera); Mozart Requiem (Hallé); and Haydn Missa in tempore belli (Jurowski/London Philharmonic Orchestra).
His other operatic roles include Antonio The Marriage of Figaro; Benoît La bohème Drive & Live, Ben Benny Paul Bunyan, A Cappadocian Salome, José Castro La fanciulla del West and Policeman Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (English National Opera); Odin The Monstrous Child (Royal Ballet & Opera); Talbot Maria Stuarda opposite Sarah Connolly, Drum-maker in Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opera North); Sergeant of Police The Pirates of Penzance, Ein Lakai Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Holland Park); Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress (Münchner Philharmoniker). Fedro Boris Goudenow (Early Music Russia); and Nanni L’infedeltà delusa (Le Parlement de Musique, Strasbourg).
In concert Trevor has performed Mozart Requiem (Davis/Toronto Symphony Orchestra); Handel Messiah (London Handel Festival); Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Brabbins/Orchestra of English National Opera); Bach Cantata 71 (Toronto International Bach Festival); the Thief in Grieg’s Peer Gynt (Royal Scottish National Orchestra); and Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Hodie and Handel Messiah in cities across Canada. He has made several appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival in The Rake’s Progress (Martyn Brabbins), King Arthur (Laurence Cummings) and The Fairy Queen (Harry Bicket). In 2016 he recorded the role of Arimanes in Balfe’s Satanella for Naxos (Bonynge/Victorian Opera Orchestra).
Haydn Missa in tempore belli / London Philharmonic Orchestra / 2025
“Trevor Eliot Bowes anchored the quartet with his resonant bass… combining authority with a moving plea for serenity.”
(MusicOMH)
“…handsome-sounding Trevor Eliot Bowes…”
(The Guardian)
“Trevor Eliot Bowes was a firm bass with superb upper range… finely phrased singing…”
(Seen & Heard International)
Basilio / Il barbiere di Siviglia / Longborough Festival Opera / 2025
“…Trevor Eliot Bowes was clearly having a marvellous time as the unctuous, scheming Basilio. His “La calunnia” was a tour de force of comedic timing, building to a stupendous climax.”
(Opera Canada)
“Trevor Eliot Bowes is a sly but likable Basilio, not the sinister, calculating schemer he is sometimes made to be, delivering his music volubly and discreetly.”
(Classicalsource)
Seneca / The Coronation of Poppea / English Touring Opera / 2023
“Trevor Eliot Bowes as Seneca, the wise philosopher who embraces death, is firm in declamation and moving at his end…”
(The Telegraph)
“Trevor Eliot Bowes is an imposing presence as Seneca, with a nicely-rounded bass voice…”
(The Opera Critic)
“Trevor Eliot Bowes’s Seneca… stood out among the principals…”
(Opera)
4, 10, 17, 31 Oct | 3, 8, 21 Nov 2025
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Conductor: Gerry Cornelius
Director: Robin Norton-Hale
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