Baritone
Martin Lamb read English at St John’s College, Oxford, before taking up a postgraduate place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Sir Frederick George Painter Prize.
A freelance opera singer, actor and director, he has worked for some of the UK’s leading opera companies over the past few years, including Scottish Opera, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Buxton Opera, Opera UK, The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, The G&S Opera Company and Minotaur Music Theatre.
His roles include Don Pasquale (including giving the national premiere of the opera in the Philippines), Nicolai’s Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Sacristan, Angelotti and Sciarrone in Tosca; Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Mayor (Jenufa), Baron Douphol (La Traviata), Kecal (The Bartered Bride), Masetto and Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Bartolo and Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Bartolo (Barber of Seville), Dick Deadeye (HMS Pinafore), Sergeant Meryll (The Yeomen of the Guard) and Baron Zeta (The Merry Widow).
For Scottish Opera he has performed the role of Don Magnifico in Cinderella at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and recently performed the role of Tom Masters in The Money Man.
As an experienced oratorio soloist, Martin’s repertoire embraces a wide range of works. He is also a keen cabaret performer, presenting his one-man show specialising in Edwardian music, and he continues to return as a soloist to the international Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
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