Robert Hayward has been long established as one of the UK’s leading dramatic bass-baritones. He performs with all the major opera companies in the UK and Europe including Bayerische Staatsoper, Frankfurt Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart and Nantes Opera as well as Houston Grand Opera, Opéra de Montreal, Minnesota Opera and Dallas Opera. Roles include Wotan/Wanderer Ring, Jokanaan Salome, title roles Eugene Onegin, Mazeppa and Der fliegende Holländer as well as Scarpia Tosca, Iago Otello, Don Pizarro Fidelio, Tomsky Pique Dame, Nick Shadow The Rake’s Progress, Kurwenal Tristan, Bluebeard Bluebeard’s Castle, Prince Ivan Khovansky Khovanshchina, Telramund Lohengrin, Simone in Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy. Recent engagements include Khovansky (WNO); Bluebeard (LA Opera); Salome (NI Opera); Moses und Aron (Komische Oper); Boris Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Chief of Police in Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper, Jupiter Orpheus in the Underworld, Commander The Handmaid’s Tale (ENO); Alberich Das Rheingold and Siegfried (LPO), title role Falstaff (Grange Festival). He works regularly for Opera North where roles have included Golaud Pelléas and Mélisande, Ford Falstaff, Mandryka Arabella, Shishkov From the House of the Dead, Prus The Makropulos Case, Balstrode Peter Grimes, Jack Rance The Girl of the Golden West, Gérard Andrea Chénier, Scarpia, Jokanaan, Der fliegende Holländer, Frank Maurrant Street Scene, Don Pizarro, Amfortas Parsifal and title roles Don Giovanni, Saul, Falstaff, Macbeth.