David Newman - tenor

La Traviata - Gastone

David Newman tenor was born in Manchester and studied at Trinity College of Music, London. He is a member of the ENO Chorus. Notable operatic engagements: successfully standing in, with 20 minutes’ notice, to sing Nadir The Pearl Fishers at ENO owing to cast illness, Radamès, Rodolfo, Pinkerton, Cavaradossi, Des Grieux Manon Lescaut, Alfredo, Manrico, Don José, Turiddu, Tamino, Nemorino, and Eisenstein and Alfred Fledermaus, with companies including ENO, Scottish Opera, Opera Ireland, Opera Interludes, Kentish Opera, European Chamber Opera and Mid Wales Opera. He has over 80 concert works in his repertoire, performing at venues including the Barbican, QEH, RAH, York Minster, Durham, Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals and Cheltenham Town Hall. He has also broadcast on Classic FM, Sky Arts and BBC radio and television, and has appeared as soloist at outdoor classical spectaculars in front of audiences of up to 10,000 people, both in the UK and Europe. Before lockdown he sang Western Union Boy/Quartet of the Defeated/Young Tree Paul Bunyan (ENO at Wilton’s Music Hall and Alexandra Palace Theatre), Parpignol and stepped in to perform the roles of First Priest/First Armed Man The Magic Flute (ENO). During lockdown David appeared as Parpignol in ENO’s ‘drive in’ La Bohème at Alexandra Palace and in online barbershop videos with ‘The Gentlemen of ENO’ including a song encouraging continued hand washing and a tribute to the late Sir Jonathan Miller, both of which can be viewed on ENO’s social media channels.