Opera singing masterclass with Gerald Finley (The Royal Opera)

Bass-baritone Gerald Finley coaches Jette Parker Young Artist Programme members Germán E. Alcántara and Blaise Malaba as part of a Royal Opera Masterclass, accompanied on piano by David Gowland. Gerald Finley made his Royal Opera debut in 1989 in Don Carlo and since then has gone on to sing a number of major roles with the Company including in Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata. Finley was born in Montreal, Canada and began singing as a chorister in Ottawa. He was encouraged by his great uncle William McKie, former organist of Westminster Abbey. He completed his musical studies at King’s College, Cambridge, the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. He performs regularly for the world’s major opera houses and has created a number of roles, including Doctor Oppenheimer (Adams’s Doctor Atomic) and Harry Heegan (Turnage’s The Silver Tassie). In 2012 he sang his first Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) for Glyndebourne Festival to great accla