Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame was Northern Ireland Opera’s ‘Voice of 2016’, having won the competition at the company’s annual Festival of Voice in August.

Since then, operatic roles have included Figaro/Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, March Hare/White Knight in Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Slook La cambiale di matrimonio, Leporello/Masetto Don Giovanni, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Count Ceprano Rigoletto, and Aeneas Dido and Aeneas. 

As a concert soloist, recent performances have included a Wigmore Hall debut singing Bach with the Gabrieli Consort, Britten War Requiem, Orff Carmina burana, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St John Passion, and St Matthew Passion, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel Messiah and Alexander’s Feast, Vaughan-Williams Five Mystical Songs, and Walton Belshazzar’s Feast.

Highlights of the current season include Così fan tutte with Orchestre Mozart Genève, La Cenerentola with Nevill Holt Opera, The Barber of Seville with Ulster Touring Opera, Bach Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a tour of Bach St Matthew Passion with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Bach St John Passion at the Barbican, Purcell King Arthur in Hamburg with the Gabrieli Consort, and a tour of Schubert Winterreise.