SIR JOHN TOMLINSON CBE in conversation with Edward Seckerson
Champs Hill
Friday 31st January 2020 7.30pm
Champs Hill is delighted to be welcoming the great British bass – Sir John Tomlinson, CBE, in Conversation with British music journalist and radio presenter, Edward Seckerson. With excerpts from across Sir John’s musical career, we shall gain an insight into this remarkable life.
Sir John Tomlinson, bass, was born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. He intended becoming an engineer but singing took over and he studied at the RMCM and later with Otakar Kraus. He sang in the Scottish Opera Chorus from 1968 and in 1972 sang with Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He was principal bass at English National Opera from 1975 to 1981. He was invited to Bayreuth in 1988 and appeared there for 18 consecutive seasons in the Wagner roles of Wotan and Hagen in the Ring, King Mark in Tristan und Isolde, Titurel and Gurnemanz in Parsifal and the title-role in Der fliegende Holländer. His career has taken him to all the great opera houses of the world as Wotan/Wanderer, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger, Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, Boris Godunov, King Philip in Don Carlo, Claggart in Billy Budd, and Bluebeard in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. He was appointed CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2005.
6.45pm Doors Open / Wine, 7.30pm Event. Suggested donation £15 per ticket. Tickets will be available to book from Tuesday 3rd December.
Champs Hill
Waltham Park Road
Coldwaltham
Pulborough
West Sussex
RH20 1LY
