Biography
PAUL FEATHERSTONE
email: paulfeatherstonetenor@yahoo.co.uk
Paul was born in Elizabeth, South Australia and brought up in Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland.
Studied Drama & Philosophy at Glasgow University. President of the Student Theatre Group.
Co-founded the Great Western Theatre Company (actor/director)
Worked for several years as a professional actor on stage at the Glasgow Citizens, Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep amongst others, and also on television (see selected roles below).
Studied singing with Deirdre Trundle before going to RSAMD to study with Peter Alexander Wilson and also to teach drama to singers.
Since 2006 he has studied with David Pollard in London.
In 2007 Paul was chosen by José Cura to perform in masterclasses with him in London and Devon.
In 2008/09 Paul performed 30 shows with the Lost & Found Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Solo roles include:
Rodolfo: LA BOHEME (Opus 1 UK & Ireland tour)
Hoffmann: TALES OF HOFFMANN (Opera della luna/Iford)
Faust: FAUST (Edinburgh Grand Opera)
Werther: WERTHER (Opera Showcase, London)
Gustavus III: A MASKED BALL (Burry Port Opera & Tayside Opera & Duchy Opera)
Ernani: ERNANI (Tayside Opera)
Calaf: TURANDOT (Edinburgh Grand Opera & Leeds Youth Opera)
Macduff: MACBETH (In House Opera & Edinburgh Grand Opera)
Alfredo: LA TRAVIATA (Opera on a Shoestring)
Mime: DAS RHEINGOLD (Northern Wagner Orchestra)
Amenophis: Rossini`s MOSES (Burry Port Opera)
Subtil: Messager`s FORTUNIO (Grange Park)
Lonigan: WONDERFUL TOWN (Grange Park)
Antonio: LA GAZZA LADRA (Garsington)
Elder Hayes: SUSANNAH (Wexford Festival Opera)
Le Patre: PENELOPE (Wexford Festival Opera)
Ivan: THE NOSE (Opera Group/Buxton Festival/Royal Opera Linbury Studio)
Eric Stale: WALKING NOT DRIVING and
Bill: MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL (Opera Group/Buxton Festival)
Macheath: THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Auricle Ensemble)
Kaplan, Sankey & Murphy: STREET SCENE (Opera Group/ Young Vic/ Buxton Festival)
Governor/Martin: CANDIDE (Opera Group/Buxton Festival)
Eisenstein: DIE FLEDERMAUS (Opera Box & Tayside Opera)
Danilo: MERRY WIDOW (Randazzo Opera/ QE2 cruise)
Animal Seller: DER ROSENKAVALIER (Scottish Opera)
3rd Jew: SALOME (Scottish Opera)
Fergus: CLIONA`S WAVE (Irish cross-border community opera with Scottish Opera For All in Tyrone & Donegal)
Tam: TAM O`SHANTER (Scottish Opera For All)
Chorus: at Salzburg Easter Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic:
FALSTAFF with the European Festival Chorus conducted by Claudio Abbado
& PETER GRIMES with European Voices conducted by Simon Rattle.
Has sung many times with the Scottish Opera Chorus, and was a regular member of Scottish Opera For All`s education team, teaching and performing in schools.
ORATORIO
Tenor soloist in:
Beethoven: SYMPHONY No.9 (Dundee & Edinburgh)
Haydn: DIE SCHOPFUNG (CREATION) (Peebles)
Mendelssohn: ELIJAH (Edinburgh)
Puccini: MESSA DI GLORIA (Fort William & Ardrishaig)
Rossini: PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE (Kilmarnock, Glasgow & Paisley)
Vaughan-Williams: SERENADE TO MUSIC -4 soli & choir version (Dundee & Edinburgh)
THEATRE ROLES PERFORMED
Algernon Moncrieff in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Dundee Rep)
Tristan Tzara in TRAVESTIES (Dundee Rep)
Debienne, Groom, Buquet, Priest in Ken Hill’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Dundee Rep)
Smith in MURDER ON THE NILE (Dundee Rep)
Jerry Devine in JUNO & THE PAYCOCK (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum)
Sandy Tyrell in HAY FEVER (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum)
Prince Fomfoma & Baayo in SLEEPING BEAUTY (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum)
Various roles in WORDS BEYOND WORDS (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum). Three weeks of staged play-readings (a new play every day) directed by Tom McGrath
Baloo in THE JUNGLE BOOK by Myles Rudge (Glasgow Citizens) directed by Giles Havergal. Was also assistant director on two other Myles & Giles Citizens Christmas shows: THE LION,THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE and PINOCCHIO
Torquato Tasso (cover) in TORQUATO TASSO (Glasgow Citizens/Edinburgh Festival)
Siegfried Sassoon in NOT ABOUT HEROES written & directed by Stephen MacDonald at Craiglockhart (where the play is set) with Cal Macaninch as Owen.
Man 1 in CLOSER THAN EVER musical by Maltby & Shire (Golden Age/Glasgow Mayfest)
Conrade & Balthasar in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Original Shakespeare Company)- no rehearsals as Shakespeare’s actors would have done. First Folio text
Goldberg in THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow)
Robert Rattray in AN AUDIENCE WITH THE BARD by Alan Hayton (Annexe T.C./ Traverse Theatre Edinburgh)
Putnam in THE CRUCIBLE (Arches Theatre, Glasgow)
Maclean in the musical 1820 (Fifth Estate)
Erskine in SCOT FREE (Burns Musical Co.). Musical written & directed by John Cairney.
TELEVISION & FILM
Two separate roles in TAKE THE HIGH ROAD (Scottish Television)
Laird in THE GOOD GUYS (London Weekend Television)
Policeman in JOYRIDE (Film Four)