Nicky Spence
Opera Singer, Nicky Spence is one of Scotland’s proudest sons and his unique skills as a singing actor and the rare honesty of his musicianship have earned him a place at the top of the classical music profession.
Having made his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York before the age of 30 years old, Mr Spence is now safely inhabiting the repertoire of Strauss, Janáček and Wagner. Described in The Times this year as ‘a tenor who combines heroic tone and a poetic sensibility that takes the breath away’, he is fulfilling his exciting potential as a Heldentenor having recently made his role debut as Parsifal with the Hallé orchestra under Sir Mark Elder to great acclaim.
Having made strong debuts at his home companies of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, and Scottish Opera, Nicky has gone on to appear regularly at L’Opéra national de Paris; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Grange Park Opera; Deutsche Staatsoper; La Monnaie, Brussels; Seattle Opera; The Metropolitan Opera, New York, Opéra national de Lyon; the Teatro Real in Madrid; the Dutch National Opera and Oper Frankfurt.
Nicky gives recitals prolifically, and appears in concert extensively having recorded over 20 recital discs while remaining a regular featured recitalist at the Wigmore Hall, London and other international stages across the world. His disc of Janáček’s work The Diary of one disappeared on Hyperion with Julius Drake won Nicky a Gramophone Magazine Award, a BBC Music Magazine Award and he is nominated this year for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award as Singer of the Year