Opera repertoire
Adams
Chou En-lai Nixon in China
Berlioz
Chorèbe Les Troyens
Britten
The Traveller Death in Venice
Title Role Billy Budd
Ned Keene* Peter Grimes
Sid Albert Herring
Chabrier
Henri de Valois* Le Roi Malgré Lui
Davis
Le Gentil** Transit of Venus
Debussy
Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande
Orestes Iphegénie en Tauride
Donizetti
Dr. Malatesta* Don Pasquale
Don Pedro Maria Padilla
Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor
von Einem
Alfred III Der Besuch der alten Dame
Gilbert & Sullivan
Captain Corcoran H.M.S. Pinafore
Stephon Iolanthe
Grosvenor Patience
Pirate King Pirates Of Penzance
Gluck
Orestes* Iphingénie En Tauride
Gounod
Mercutio Roméo Et Juliette
Valentin Faust
Henze
Pentheus The Bassarids
Hoiby
Ferdinand The Tempest
Marschner
Lord Ruthven Der Vampyr
Massenet
Lescaut Manon
King Cendrillon
Title role* Werther (Baritone Version)
Monteverdi
Ulisse Il Ritorno d'Ulisse In Patria
Ottone L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
Title role* L'Orfeo
Mozart
Colas Bastien & Bastienne
Don Alfonso Cosi fan Tutte
Title role Don Giovanni
Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro
Papageno Die Zauberflöte
Offenbach
Title role Monsieur Choufleuri
Puccini
Lescaut Manon
Purcell
Aeneas Dido and Aeneas
Prokofiev
Prince Andrei War and Peace
Rameau
Borilée Les Boréades
Rossini
Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia
Taddeo* L'Italiana in Algeri
Dandini* La Cenerentola
Saariaho
Jaufré* L'Amour de Loin
Saint-Saëns
Title role Henry VIII
Somers
Hotel Manager** Mario and the Magician
Title role** Louis Riel
Strauss, J.
Dr. Falke/Eisenstein Die Fledermaus
Strauss, R.
Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos
Olivier Capriccio
Mandryka Arabella
Tchaikovsky
Title role Eugene Onegin
Ibn-Hakia Iolanta
Prince Eletsky* Pique Dame
Thomas
Title role Hamlet
Verdi
Germont La traviata
Conte di Luna Il trovatore
Ford Falstaff
Rodrigo Don Carlos
Wagner
Wolfram von Eschenbach Tannhäuser
Telramund Lohengrin
*in preparation / **world premiere
Concert repertoire
Bach
B Minor Mass
Magnificat
Coffee Cantata No.211
Cantatas No. 32, No.110, No.138, No.147
Christus St. Matthew Passion
Christus St. John Passion
Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Choral Fantasia
Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem
Burge
Mass For Prisoners Of Conscience**
Eötvös
Senza Sangue**
Fauré
Requiem
Finzi
Let Us Garlands Bring
Handel
Messiah
Lieberson
The World in Flower**
Mahler
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Das Lied Von Der Erde
Lieder Aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rückert Lieder
Kindertotenlieder
Symphony No.8
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Mozart
Requiem
Coronation Mass
Vesperae Solennes De Confessore
Orff
Carmina Burana
Ravel
Don Quichotte À Dulcinée
Reger
Fünf Lieder: Mein Traum, Flieder, Glückes Genug, Wiegenlied, Fromm
Saint-Saëns
Christmas Oratorio
Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony
Five Mystical Songs
Donna nobis pacem
*in preparation / **world premiere
Recital repertoire
Beethoven
An Die Ferne Geliebte
Gellert Lieder
Selected Songs
Bellini
Selected Songs
Brahms
Vier Ernste Gesänge*
Liebeslieder Waltzer
Die Schöne Magelone
Selected Songs
Britten
Three songs by William Blake*
A Charm of Lullabys
Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad
Debussy
Fêtes Gallantes I,II
Trois Ballades de Paul Villon*
Selected Songs
Fauré
La bonne chanson
L'horizon chimérique
Selected Songs
Finzi
Let us Garlands Bring
Gounod
Selected Songs
Loewe
Selected Songs / Ballads
Mahler
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Lieder Aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Massenet
Poème du souvenir
Poème d'amour
Poème d'avril
Poème d'hiver
Poème d'automne
Mendelssohn
Selected Songs
Monteverdi
Selected Works
Mascagni
Five Songs
Morawetz
Father William
Selected Songs
Mozart
Selected Songs
Oliver
In the Flesh**
Purcell
Selected Songs
Poulenc
Selected Songs
Bal Masqué*
Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Reger
Selected Songs
Robertson
Three Songs**
Schubert
Gesänge Des Harrfners
Selected Songs
Schöne Müllerin
Schwanengesang
Winterreise
Schumann
Liederkreis, op.39
Liederkreis, op.47*
Spanisches Liederbuch
Selected Songs
Strauss
Drei Lieder für hohen Bass
Selected Songs
Tchaikovsky
Selected Songs
Vaughan Williams
Songs Of Travel
Five Mystical Songs
Selected Songs
Verdi
Selected Songs
Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch
Selected Songs
*in preparation / **world premiere
The Toronto StarYou have never seen anything in your life quite like the production of Don Giovanni which the Canadian Opera Company opened on Saturday afternoon at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts…. Russell Braun is there to sing and act him to perfection and even though most of the time his self-indulgent debauched countenance looks as though his last name were Crowe, his voice is a million times better… At the centre of it all is Braun, playing an addict to sex and booze and self who is rapidly plunging towards hell. He throws himself into this interpretation so completely that all you can do is hold your breath during it and cheer wildly when it’s over.
Opera NewsBaritone Russell Braun is such a fine actor that he managed to establish the Duke of Nottingham as an emotional tinderbox beneath his initially innocuous exchanges with Sara and his fervent defense of Devereux. It was therefore no surprise, when Nottingham found the scarf Sara had embroidered for Devereux, that his stunned reaction should turn into the unstoppable rage that was so frightening in his Act III scene with Sara. Though he was able to chill the natural warmth of his voice, Braun added a plaintive note to Nottingham’s fiercest scenes with Sara and Devereux that expressed the depth of suffering beneath his anger.
Opera NowRussell Braun’s Troïl is a model of style and elegance.