Iain MacNeil
Baritone
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The Canadian baritone Iain MacNeil joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2019/20. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him as Andrei Tchelkalov in a new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and repeating his unforgettable portrayals of Kajin in Rudi Stephan's The First People and roles in the Weill / Orff The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken / The Clever Woman double bill. He enjoyed great success last season singing Feldmarschall Dörfling & Klingsor in new productions of Henze's Prince of Homburg & Wagner's Parsifal, a Prisoner / Cook in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead and repeating his powerful portrayals of the Chief of Police in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Amonasro in Aida and the Prince in Tchaikovsky's Sorceress (get the DVD!). His many roles since joining the company included his unforgettable Dallapiccola's Ullise (» 2002 Rediscovery of the Year« -International Opera Awards), Jago in Verdi's Otello, Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Lord Tristan Mickleford (Flotow's Martha), Olivier (Capriccio), the Minstrel in Humperdinck's Königskinder (which he sang for the first time at the 2021 Tirol Festival in Erl) Werschinin (Eötvös’ Tri sestry - get the CD!), Tadeusz (Weinberg's The (female) Passenger), 4 roles in Martinů's Julietta, Mozart's Figaro, which he sang at Vancouver Opera, the Black Minister & Kaspar in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre & Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer, Moralès / Dancaïro (Carmen), Sciarrone (Tosca), the Baron (Schreker's Der ferne Klang (get the CD!) and Johann in Werther. Before coming to Frankfurt Iain MacNeil was a member of the Canadian Opera Company's Opera Studio. He sang Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia at the 2016 Toronto Summer Music Festival, Mozart's Don Giovanni at Saskatoon Opera and Figaro at Vancouver Opera. He took part in the Salzburg Festival's 2013 Emmerich Smola Young Singers Project and was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Verband Frankfurt in 2018.