Scottish baritone Arthur Bruce is a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist and a Britten—Pears Young Artist. He is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Alexander Gibson Opera School, and English National Opera’s ‘Opera Works’ programme.
Recent engagements include covering the title rôle of Don Giovanni; Schaunard (La bohème); Guglielmo (Così fan tutte); Belcore (L’elisir d’amore); Ford [cover] (Falstaff); Starveling & Demetrius [cover] (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); Antonio (The Gondoliers); Angus (The Narcissistic Fish), all for Scottish Opera; Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) for Opera Bohemia; Wolfram (Tannhäuser) for Saffron Opera Group; Artidoro (Gli sposi malcontenti) for Bampton Classical Opera; title rôle of Gianni Schicchi and Sam (Trouble in Tahiti) with the RCS Opera School; Zurga (Les pêcheurs de perles) for Edinburgh Grand Opera, and Pierre Lafitte in the European première of Amy Beach’s Cabildo with Opera Eos (now New Voices Theatre).
