Liam Bonthrone

Biography

BBC Music Magazine and Classic FM ‘Rising Star’, Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone makes major house and role debuts this season, including Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) for GöteborgsOperan, Jonathan (Saul) for Oper Köln, Lord Darnley /1st Male Consort in the World Premiere of Brett Dean’s Of One Blood at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Pong (Turandot) for the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, and Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) in a new Laurent Pelly production for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Liam recently appeared at Royal Danish Opera: Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Potsdamer Winteroper: Rinaldo (Armida), Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Abner/High Priest/Amalekite/Doeg (Saul), and Grail Knight (Parsifal), and Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was a member of the Opera Studio: performing roles including Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos), Der Erzähler (Der Mond - Orff), Gaston/Victorin (Die tote Stadt), Le Remendado  (Carmen), Ein  Junger Seemann (Tristan und Isolde) and Rustighello  (Lucrezia Borgia). In 2024, he made his debut at Tiroler Winterfestspiele Erl, as Leshyi in Rimski-Korsakov’s Snegurotchka. Liam is a Samling Artist, and is a recent alumnus of The Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, directed by Edith Wiens. Educated in the UK, Liam was a Bicentenary Scholar at Royal Academy Opera, holds a Masters of Performance with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a First Class Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He won First Place in the 2022 Clonter Opera Prize, and was an Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera.