John Savournin BASS BARITONE

John Savournin studied acting with LAMDA, before winning a scholarship to Trinity College of Music. At Trinity, John most notably sang as Dr. Hasselbacher in Malcolm Williamson's Our Man in Havana, A Child of our Time under Garry Walker and Britten's War Requiem under Jan Latham Koenig. He was awarded the Founder's Prize for Excellence and the Paul Simms Opera Prize.

Operatic roles include Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Schaunard La bohéme and Dulcamara L'elisir d'amore for British Youth Opera; Marcello La bohéme at the Soho Theatre; Guglielmo Così fan tutte and Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia for Opera UK; Hermann/Schlemil Les contes d'Hoffmann for Mid Wales Opera; Zuniga/Danciaro Carmen for Opera Novella; Colline (cover) La bohéme and Sciarrone (cover) Tosca for Raymond Gubbay at RAH; Don Giovanni for Minotaur Music Theatre; The Sentinel Cry of Innocence - created the role for Gyenyame for Performing Arts at Greenwich Theatre. He is a regular personality at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, where he has sung many of the bass-baritone roles, most notably Captain Corcoran, Grosvenor and the Pirate King.

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2011
Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro
British Youth Opera

The Judge, Trial by Jury
Opera Minima

2012
Mr Wilkins, Merrie England
Opera South

Recital débuts at both the Wigmore Hall and St. Martin in the Fields in June 2012.

"Savournin contributes a Pooh-Bah possessing an unflawed conciousness of innate superiority, setting the tome for Gilbert's sharp-eyes satire on English class attitudes and gender relations"
George Hall, The Guardian - Pooh-Bah The Mikado, Charles Court Opera   

 "John Savournin's Bartelby (Doctor Bartolo) was skilfully and whittily done..."
Peter Reed, Opera Magazine - Doctor Bartleby The Barber of Seville, OperaUpClose

"Savournin's Corcoran, like so much of this show, is nicely judged and wickedly funny"
Tim Ashley, The Guardian - Captain Corcoran HMS Pinafore, Charles Court Opera

"the truly excellent John Savournin (surely destined for a major career)"
Bernard Lee, Sheffield Telegraph - Marcello, La bohéme, Sheffield City Opera

 
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