Indian-Scottish Neil Balfour is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and the National Opera Studio.
He is a former Britten-Pears, Concordia, Momentum and Samling artist.
Operatic performances include Prince Yamadori/Madama Butterfly (Welsh National Opera); Colline/La bohème (Mananan Opera & OFMAN Madrid Opera Studio); Don Alfonso/Così fan tutte, Quince/A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lord Ellington/ La vie Parisienne (RNCM); Dottore/La traviata (Devon Opera); Cold Genius/King Arthur (Glastonbury Festival); Mustafà/L’italiana in Algeri and Don Pasquale/Don Pasquale (Mananan Opera); and Claggart/Billy Budd Re-imagined (The Royal Opera House L&P Department).
Contemporary roles include Father/ Thumbprint (Portland Opera); Safin/The Shoemaker (Welsh National Opera); Ibn Al-Haytham/Al-Haytham’s light (English Touring Opera); Punch/Crocodile (Hull Urban Opera); and Jean Arp/Sophie (Tête à Tête).
Concert performances include premiering Alice Through the Looking Glass (London Symphony Orchestra), Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (Leeds Philharmonic Orchestra), a joint recital with Roderick Williams (Thaxted Festival), a Sondheim recital (Oxford Lieder) as well as an eclectic mix of song recitals for Leeds Lieder, &Piano, Britten-Pears Arts and the Leeds Opera Festival.