Baritone Alan Opie has been a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Santa Fe Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Beckmesser, a rôle he has repeated in Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna and Turin. At English National Opera he was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement in Opera Olivier Award for his Falstaff. His extensive concert work ranges from Mendelssohn to Britten, Walton, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, and he has recorded for CBS, EMI, Hyperion, Chandos, and Decca.