Lyric bass Trevor Eliot Bowes was born in Victoria, Canada and studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is a former Britten Pears Young Artist and an alumnus of Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artists programme.
In the current season he returns to English Touring Opera as Seneca (The Coronation of Poppea) and in spring 2024, Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress.)
Among his recent highlights are Alidoro (La Cenerentola – Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo Aci, (Galatea e Polifemo – OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival); Colline (La bohème – English Touring Opera); Sergeant of Police (The Pirates of Penzance) , Ein Lakai ()Ariadne auf Naxos – Opera Holland Park); Odin (The Monstrous Child – Royal Opera House); and Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress – Münchner Philharmoniker). He also covered Sarastro (The Magic Flute – Welsh National Opera).
His operatic roles include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Death (Savitri), Cadmus and Somnus (Semele), Léandre (L’amour des trois Oranges), Don Inigo (L’heure espagnole), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte). For English National Opera he has performed Benoît (La bohème Drive & Live), Ben Benny (Paul Bunyan), A Cappadocian (Salome), José Castro (La fanciulla del West) and Policeman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) (English National Opera); and for Opera North, Talbot (Maria Stuarda) opposite Sarah Connolly and the Drum-maker in Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. He also performed in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Hamburg as Fedro in Early Music Russia’s production of Boris Goudenow (Johann Mattheson’s 1710 version) and Nanni in Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa with Le Parlement de Musique, in Strasbourg.
In concert Trevor has performed Mozart Requiem (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, under Sir Andrew Davis); Handel Messiah (London Handel Festival); Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Orchestra of English National Opera under Martyn Brabbins); Bach Cantata 71 (Toronto International Bach Festival); the Thief in Grieg’s Peer Gynt (Royal Scottish National Orchestra); and Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Hodie and Handel Messiah in cities across Canada. He has made several appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival in The Rake’s Progress under Martyn Brabbins, King Arthur under Laurence Cummings and The Fairy Queen under Harry Bicket. In 2016 he recorded the role of Arimanes in Balfe’s Satanella for Naxos with Richard Bonynge and the Victorian Opera Orchestra.
Upcoming events with The Mozartists:
Le nozze di Figaro
21 October 2024 – Cadogan Hall, London
Le nozze di Figaro
23 October 2024 – Teatro Massimo Communale, Syracuse
Lyric bass Trevor Eliot Bowes was born in Victoria, Canada and studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is a former Britten Pears Young Artist and an alumnus of Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artists programme.
In the current season he returns to English Touring Opera as Seneca (The Coronation of Poppea) and in spring 2024, Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress.)
Among his recent highlights are Alidoro (La Cenerentola – Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo Aci, (Galatea e Polifemo – OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival); Colline (La bohème – English Touring Opera); Sergeant of Police (The Pirates of Penzance) , Ein Lakai ()Ariadne auf Naxos – Opera Holland Park); Odin (The Monstrous Child – Royal Opera House); and Father Trulove (The Rake’s Progress – Münchner Philharmoniker). He also covered Sarastro (The Magic Flute – Welsh National Opera).
His operatic roles include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Death (Savitri), Cadmus and Somnus (Semele), Léandre (L’amour des trois Oranges), Don Inigo (L’heure espagnole), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte). For English National Opera he has performed Benoît (La bohème Drive & Live), Ben Benny (Paul Bunyan), A Cappadocian (Salome), José Castro (La fanciulla del West) and Policeman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) (English National Opera); and for Opera North, Talbot (Maria Stuarda) opposite Sarah Connolly and the Drum-maker in Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. He also performed in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Hamburg as Fedro in Early Music Russia’s production of Boris Goudenow (Johann Mattheson’s 1710 version) and Nanni in Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa with Le Parlement de Musique, in Strasbourg.
In concert Trevor has performed Mozart Requiem (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, under Sir Andrew Davis); Handel Messiah (London Handel Festival); Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Orchestra of English National Opera under Martyn Brabbins); Bach Cantata 71 (Toronto International Bach Festival); the Thief in Grieg’s Peer Gynt (Royal Scottish National Orchestra); and Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Hodie and Handel Messiah in cities across Canada. He has made several appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival in The Rake’s Progress under Martyn Brabbins, King Arthur under Laurence Cummings and The Fairy Queen under Harry Bicket. In 2016 he recorded the role of Arimanes in Balfe’s Satanella for Naxos with Richard Bonynge and the Victorian Opera Orchestra.
Upcoming events with The Mozartists:
Le nozze di Figaro
21 October 2024 – Cadogan Hall, London
Le nozze di Figaro
23 October 2024 – Teatro Massimo Communale, Syracuse