Gerald Finley
- Acting
- January 30, 1960 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
Grammy-award winning Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is a leading singer and dramatic interpreter of his generation, with acclaimed performances at the world’s major opera and concert venues and award-winning recordings on CD and DVD with major labels in a wide variety of repertoire. Mr Finley’s career is devoted to the wide range of vocal art, encompassing opera, orchestral and song, collaborating with the greatest orchestras and conductors of our time. He began with the baritone roles of Mozart; his Don Giovanni and Count in Le nozze di Figaro have been heard live throughout the world and on DVD. Recent signature roles include Guillaume Tell, J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adam’s Dr. Atomic, and Jaufré Rudel in Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. He created Harry Heegan in Mark Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie. (From: http://www.geraldfinley.com)
Known for
Filmography
- The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte · Don Alfonso
- La Scala: Cosi Fan Tutte · Don Alfonso
- Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: Tosca
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Teatro Real
- Giuseppe Verdi: "Falstaff" Salzburger Festspiele 2023 · Sir John Falstaff
- Royal Opera All-Star Gala
- Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House · Baritone
- Verdi: Otello · Jago
- Royal Opera House: Tosca · Baron Scarpia
- Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper · Amfortas
- Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2016 · Bariton
- Pelleas et Melisande · Golaud
- Guillaume Tell · Guillaume Tell
- Wagner : Parsifal · Amfortas
- Così fan tutte - Salzburg Festival · Don Alfonso
- Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg · Hans Sachs
- Beethoven Missa Solemnis · Self
- Turnage: Anna Nicole · Howard Stern
- Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010 · Don Giovanni
- The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre · Self
- Adams: Doctor Atomic · J. Robert Oppenheimer
- John Adams: Doctor Atomic · J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro · Comte Almaviva
- Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film
- Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin · Jaufre Rudel
- Owen Wingrave · Owen Wingrave
- Turnage: The Silver Tassie · Harry Heegan
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro · Figaro
- The Marriage of Figaro · Figaro
- Death in Venice · English Clerk