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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).
Dick Deadeye / HMS Pinafore / English National Opera / 2025
“…Trevor Eliot Bowes slithered both physically and vocally as a dastardly Dick Deadeye…”
(Opera)
“…Trevor Eliot Bowes as a deliciously hammy Dick Deadeye…”
(The Guardian)
“Trevor Eliot Bowes makes a fine Dick Deadeye, a cartoonish comedy villain with BO who manages to offend by simply telling the truth. Bowes has a powerful resonant tone and is a shoo-in for some of the nastier bass roles in the operatic canon.”
(London Unattached)
Collatinus / The Rape of Lucretia / English Touring Opera / 2025
“Trevor Eliot Bowes’s strong bass makes for a warm Collatinus…”
(The Times / Mark Pullinger)
“…a quiet stage-holding authority from Bowes’s Collatinus…”
(Opera)
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)
23, 25, 27, 28 March 2026
Handel: Imeneo
Conductor: Julian Perkins
Director: Guido Martin-Brandis
