Biography

Neil Howlett won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship while at Cambridge University and consequently studied in Vienna, Milan and Stuttgart. His successful international career includes performances for the English Opera Group (with Benjamin Britten), the Royal Opera, Welsh National and Scottish Operas, and English National Opera, where he was leading baritone for seventeen years. He has performed well over eighty roles, covering a wide range of repertoire; notable examples include Scarpia. Iago, Macbeth, Boccanegra, Renato, Amfortas, Golaud, Almaviva and Jokanaan. International appearances cover Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia, South America and the USA, and in his concert repertoire he has sung with all the major British orchestras.

He was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1974 - 1992, when he was appointed Head of Vocal Studies and later Director of Repertoire Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since 1998 he has received critical acclaim for his performances as Wotan/Wanderer and continues to teach privately in London and Lincolnshire.