AlanOke
- Tenor
About Alan
Following a successful career as a baritone he made his debut as a tenor in 1992. Since then, his career has covered much of the tenor repertoire, including Rodolfo (La bohème), Alfredo (La traviata), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Steva (Jenůfa), Boris (Káťa Kabanová), M.K. Gandhi (Satyagraha), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), The Four Servants (Les contes d'Hoffmann) and Schoolteacher (The Cunning Little Vixen). Alan has worked with lauded opera companies and houses, including the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, Canadian Opera Company and The Metropolitan Opera as well as making appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Brighton, Bregenz and Ravenna festivals as well as the BBC Proms.
More recently he has established an enviable reputation in twentieth century and contemporary repertoire, including The Governor (prisoner of the state), Chairman Mao (Nixon in China) for the BBC Proms and the Berlin Festival, Caliban (The Tempest) for The Metropolitan Opera, Hiereus and the Translator (The Minotaur) and Old Man Marshall in Turnage's Anna Nicole for the Royal Opera House, as well as roles of the Prince, Manservant and Marquis (Lulu) for the Welsh National Opera. He sang his first Peter Grimes to great acclaim for the Aldeburgh Festival as part of their Britten centenary season to add to his already celebrated Aschenbach (Death in Venice). He sang his first Captain Vere (Billy Budd) at the Teatro Carlo Felice and reprised the role with Opera North and at the Aldeburgh Festival.
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The Makropulos Affair (Janáček)
Janáček TheatreNov 2022Everyone else who draws their characters in grotesque stylization is also excellent, especially...the suggestive Alan Oke as the demented Hauk-Šendorf. [Translated] Vynikající jsou i všichni ostatní, kteří kreslí své postavy v groteskní stylizaci, především Nicky Spence jako impulsivní Albert Gregor či sugestivní Alan Oke jako pomatený Hauk-Šendorf.
- Radmila Hrdinova, Novinky.cz
- 20 November 2022
The Makropulos Affair (Janáček)
Welsh National OperaSep 2022Alan Oke does Marty’s demented ex-lover Hauk touchingly, without overplaying the lunacy...
- Stephen Walsh, The Arts Desk
- 17 September 2022
Alan Oke supplies more than a touching cameo as the elderly, dotty Count Hauk-Šendorf, who rediscovers Eugenia Montez – his lover of 50 years before – and prepares to run off with her yet again.
- George Hall, The Stage
- 20 September 2022
...Alan Oke delivered a hilarious cameo as the geriatric Hauk-Šendorf.
- David Karlin, Bachtrack
- 17 September 2022
The Handmaid's Tale (Ruders)
English National OperaApr 2022...Alan Oke as the lascivious doctor...make[s] the most of [his] sporadic appearances.
- Jessica Duchen, Arts Desk
- 09 April 2022
...Alan Oke oozes sleaze and slime as the lewd doctor who offers to impregnate Offred.
- Claire Seymour, Opera Today
- 08 April 2022
...Alan Oke was a suitably unsettling doctor...
- Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill
- 11 April 2022
The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček)
English National OperaFeb 2022Among the large cast, a number stand out, including Alan Oke’s exemplary Schoolmaster (every word crystal clear...)
- Richard Fairman, Financial Times
- 21 February 2022
Some ENO stalwarts play the villagers, with Alan Oke as the Schoolmaster ...doubling the roles of Mosquito...and [his] way with the text is scrupulously clear, [his] character sardonically drawn.
- Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph
- 20 February 2022
The two veterans Alan Oke and Clive Bayley are a touching bit of casting as the Schoolmaster and Priest respectively, each finding a wry humanity...
- Richard Bratby, The Spectator
- 26 February 2022
Alan Oke and Clive Bayley, as schoolmaster and priest, compete for the title of most droll, leading a classy lineup of cameos.
- Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
- 26 January 2022
...the experienced pairing of Alan Oke and Clive Bayley, who capture the important dramatic counterpoint of the unfulfilled lives of the village schoolmaster and priest [is exemplarily clear].
- Martin Kettle, The Guardian
- 21 February 2022
The Prisoner of the State (Lang)
Barbican, LondonJan 2020[...] while the Machiavelli aria for the Governor gives Alan Oke the chance to remind us what a compelling stage presence he has.
- Andrew Clements, The Guardian
- 12 January 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Ruders)
London ColiseumFeb 2024Amongst other roles, Alan Oke and John Findon give persuasive cameos as the lecherous doctor and an ardent Luke...
- Opera Today
- 05 February 2024
Alan Oke as the Doctor [plays his] part to the full.
- Opera Online
- 05 February 2024
