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Trevor Eliot Bowes

Bass

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 performs Polifemo Aci, Galatea e Polifemo for the Early Music Society of the Islands; Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro in his debut with The Mozartists; Antonio The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera; Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia for Longborough Festival Opera; and Haydn Missa in tempore belli with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Among his recent highlights are Alidoro La Cenerentola (Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival); Seneca The Coronation of Poppea, Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress, Colline La bohème (English Touring Opera); Odin The Monstrous Child (Royal Ballet & Opera); and Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress (Münchner Philharmoniker).

His other operatic roles include 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); Talbot Maria Stuarda opposite Sarah Connolly, Drum-maker in Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opera North); and Sergeant of Police The Pirates of Penzance, Ein Lakai Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Holland Park); He also performed in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Hamburg as Fedro Boris Goudenow (Early Music Russia); and Nanni L’infedeltà delusa (Le Parlement de Musique, Strasbourg). He has also performed Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte, Death Savitri, Cadmus and Somnus Semele, Léandre L’amour des trois Oranges, Don Inigo L’heure espagnole, Simone Gianni Schicchi and Sarastro Die Zauberflöte.

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).

Steven Swales Artist Management represents Trevor Eliot Bowes worldwide

Reviews

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 / West Green House Opera / 2024

“Trevor Eliot Bowes’ made Don Basilio a comic delight. Here was another self-important and rather knowing character. The combination of Bowes’ imaginative physicality and his highly expressive eyes (allied to rather camp mannerisms) meant that though the character only makes two appearances, Bowes made him linger. The calumny aria was a virtuoso combination of music and theatre, visually and musically gripping, whilst his delight in being bribed by Darmanin’s Count in Act Two was palpable.”
(Planet Hugill)

“…sterling work by Trevor Eliot Bowes (Basilio) and Jeni Bern (Berta)…”
(Opera)


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)

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English National Opera

5, 7, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22 Feb 2025

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Conductor: Ainārs Rubiķis
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins

 
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