https://www.johnnyherford.com/johnny-herford-baritone daily 1.0 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebaa9b55fc9f78258c7382/1592564576658/Johnny%252BPassion.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eeb92f01ce04910a1c77b89/1592505676609/Johnny%252BAlbert%252BHerring.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebab3d43de393c4deb7b63/1592505712098/Johnny%252BThe%252BTrial%252B3.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebaad5f3098e2cc3fd7b03/1592505749691/Johnny%252BPirates%252B1.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebc1522df54756c4e02fa9/1592508814792/Johnny%2BCandide.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eeb95ca57893d74318c4a1e/1592505789698/Johnny-Herford-Golden-Dragon-3.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eeb94ec38555558d060806b/1592505828296/Johnny%252BPeacham%252B3.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebab051679e64c86b7e59c/1592505858987/Johnny%252BThe%252BTrial%252B2.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eeb9322b960af23e8bd5fa8/1592505927927/Johnny%252BTrial%252B1.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebabb7c5806b5f2cdf40a8/1592506672166/Johnny%25252BLes%25252BMamelles%25252B1.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebbabec5bf4f2eabb80f6b/1592507120227/Johnny%2BGolden%2BDragon%2B2.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eeb9293ee8615767d3fa376/5eebbb5fba62f154e15cf663/1592507285663/Johnny%2BDenis%2Band%2BKatya%2B5.jpg Johnny Herford, Baritone https://www.johnnyherford.com/media daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.johnnyherford.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.johnnyherford.com/about daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/t/5ef212b9f8af9640ffa20718/1592922814165/Headshot+1.jpg About - British baritone Johnny Herford is known for his fearless and passionate commitment to new approaches in opera. This has led him to premiere main roles in operas by Philip Glass, Pascal Dusapin, Péter Eötvös and Maxwell Davies and to collaborate with dancers, multimedia elements and act multiple roles in quick succession. In 2014, Johnny was asked to create the central role of Josef K in Philip Glass's adaptation of The Trial by Kafka. This opened in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to five star reviews and Johnny's performance led to him being nominated for Best Male Performance in an Opera at the Welsh Theatre Awards. Johnny has relished his collaborations with Mike McCarthy and Music Theatre Wales, which have seen him search for a missing tooth in Eötvös's The Golden Dragon, sing neo-baroque extended techniques from the top of a ladder in Passion by Pascal Dusapin, and most recently perform Philip Venables's score of Denis and Katya to an in-ear click track in sync with cellists from the London Sinfonietta, while switching between six different onstage personas. Other operatic highlights have included roles in Deborah Warner's production of Billy Budd for Opera di Roma, Bernard Herman's Wuthering Heights for Opéra national de Lorraine, The Traveller in Curlew River for Opéra de Dijon, Samuel for a run of Mike Leigh's production of The Pirates of Penzance for English National Opera, understudying the role of Pelléas for Welsh National Opera and his recent American debut for Opera Philadelphia. Johnny's lifelong love of song has been developed in a long and fruitful duo partnership with William Vann, with whom he won the Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Competition and the Jean Meikle Duo Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. Will is the founder and curator of the London English Song Festival and Johnny has enjoyed many performances with Will's inventive programming. Johnny has collaborated with other outstanding recital pianists including James Ballieu at the invitation of the Wigmore Hall, Gary Matthewman for his Lied in London series, Libby Burgess for the Oxford Lieder Festival and her New Paths Festival and Joseph Middleton in the Leeds Lieder Festival. https://www.johnnyherford.com/discography daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecab89fe73d720da4f8e7c/1592568716941/Purer+than+Pearl.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecae4a1a841c42a3086e04/1592569420220/The+Trial+2.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecab9a91751c60400e2e28/1592568732740/Faure+OSJ.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecabbd6d9e375feda2c427/1592568767303/Matthew+Passion+Signum+Classics.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecabc6edd98d287c06a836/1592568778592/Quickening+Hugill.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecabd2c8cc845ac73de130/1592568788962/Faure+Convivium+Records.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecacc41ec43e3c8bc94300/1592569030480/Sappho+and+Shropshire.jpg Discography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/5eecab5f99872041c93a2a5f/5eecad7791751c60400e5cc2/1592569208984/Durufle+Keble.jpg Discography https://www.johnnyherford.com/reviews daily 0.75 2020-06-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/t/5eee7915404c9c25fb5d5441/1592688995827/Denis+and+Katya+4.jpg Reviews Music by Philip Venables Written & directed by Ted Huffman Two 15-year-olds in love who lived every moment, including their last, online. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/t/5eee7db98baa11417c6233a2/1593033956989/Johnny+Herford+Passion.jpg Reviews Pascal Dusapin: Passion for soprano, baritone, chorus & orchestra In this searingly beautiful and sensuous work for voice and body, Dusapin explores the pain and passion of two lovers who are forced apart to separate worlds. Springing from the myth of Orpheus, it offers an intriguing contemporary take – she is the one who wants to be followed. Mixed with the haunting sounds of harpsichord and Arabic Oud, Dusapin’s gleaming, shifting score, performed by Geoffrey Paterson and the London Sinfonietta, conveys a timeless world within which the movement of dancers and singers can play out their story of loss and desire. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eeb76f900652200c6f6001a/t/5eee8238e567c00ae65b6d15/1593109085050/Johnny+The+Trial+2.jpg Reviews An Opera by Philip Glass. Adaptation by Christopher Hampton Based on the novel by Franz Kafka Kafka's nightmarish tale of a man arrested and prosecuted for an unknown crime by a relentless and inaccessible authority has lost none of its chilling potency down the years. Philip Glass brings his signature music and dramatic force to this literary classic. With Christopher Hampton as librettist, this opera faithfully follows Kafka's original story, relishing the author's notorious paranoia and bizarre sense of humour.