Hal Cazalet, tenor

Hal Cazalet divides his time between the United States and Europe, performing in opera, musical theatre and cabaret. After training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he went to the Juilliard Opera Center in New York where he won the 1995 Shoshana Foundation Award.

His roles include: Gerard in Philip Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles (Spoleto Festival USA and European premiere, Herod Atticus Amphitheatre, Athens), Charles McCray in The Music Programme (world premiere, Polish National Opera, and Linbury Studio Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Hercules in Hercules and the Hydra (world premiere, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Albert in Albert Herring (Glyndebourne Touring Opera), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English Touring Opera), Quint in Turn Of The Screw, Fenton in Merry Wives of Windsor (Buxton Festival), Alfred Clement in Let’s Make an Opera (Aldeburgh Festival), Tobias in Tobias and the Angel (Young Vic), Macheath in The Threepenny Opera (Theatre Royal, Brighton), and Macheath in The Beggars Opera (Opera Theatre Company).

In the U.S. Mr. Cazalet made his Lincoln Center debut performing L’Infinito by Tristan Keuris (world premiere and WNYC live broadcast) and performed at the Kennedy Center under Christopher Hogwood and the National Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s The Impresario. He performed with New York Festival of Song at the Library of Congress with soprano Sylvia McNair in The Land Where The Good Songs Go, a stage show he co-programmed with pianist Steven Blier based on the songs of Wodehouse and Kern. The album, The Land Where The Good Songs Go, was released by Harbinger Records in 2001. Mr. Cazalet has also performed in cabaret with Tim Rice, Stephen Fry, and Ned Sherrin. He has been heard on BBC Radio: Loose Ends, In Tune, and the LBC Pete Murray Show.

As a composer and lyricist, Mr. Cazalet has written two stage musicals. Street People was performed at the 1989 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and First Night was performed at the 1996 Aspen Music Festival, and in New York under the direction of Frank Corsaro. His Agnus Dei was performed during the 1998 Santa Fe Festival and on BBC Radio 3.

Recent and upcoming performances include: A Little Madness in Spring by Antonio Vargas (Casa da Musica, Porto) as Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (ETO) and the release of three recordings; Philip Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles (Nonesuch Records) and two musicals by Kern and Herbert with the London Symphony Orchestra (EMI Records).  Mr. Cazalet’s long association with NYFOS includes P.G.’s Other Profession (2001), Hands Across the Sea (2006), English Gardens, Earthly Delights (2006), and Love at the Crossroads (2007).