Robert Gleadow

Toronto-born Robert Gleadow was a member of the Opera Studio of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and a beneficiary of the Jette Parker Young Artist Program at the Royal Opera House in London. He has appeared in the title role in Don Giovanni in Basel, as Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Cologne, Montreal and at the Royal Opera House in Versailles, as Leporello at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, as Masetto at the Royal Opera House in London, as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Leporello at the Glyndebourne Festival, as Talbot (Maria Stuarda), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), Angelotti (Tosca) at Houston Grand Opera, as Colline (La Bohème) in Dallas and Santiago de Chile, and as Colline, Orator (The Magic Flute) and Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Canadian Opera Company. He made his debut at the Opéra National de Paris in Tristan und Isolde (Helmsman) in 2008. He took part in the performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions: Weihnachtsoratorium in Paris, St Matthew’s Passion and the Mass in B minor with the Hallé Orchestra led by Sir Mark Elder, and in Mozart’s Requiem with Ensemble Matheus and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

In recent years, he sang as Leporello at the Musikfest in Bremen with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, as Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) and Alidoro (Cinderella) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, as well as Armida during a European tour with Les Musiciens du Louvre led by Marc Minkowski, as Guglielmo in Bucharest, Versailles, Grenoble and Opéra de Lausanne, and as Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Lindorf, Coppélius, Miracle and Dapertutto (The Tales of Hoffmann) at the Musikfest in Bremen. He recorded the part of Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Deutsche Grammophon with Anna Netrebko. 

His oratorio projects have included performances of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra led by Manfred Honeck, as well as Il primo omicidio at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.