Biography
Paul Agnew (born 1964 in Glasgow) is a Scottish operatic tenor and conductor. Agnew read music as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with various groups specializing in early music (Ex Cathedra, the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen and the Gothic Voices) before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s.
He is well known for singing high tenor roles in French repertoire, although he has had success in other types of music.Paul Agnew's recordings include Mozart's Coronation Mass, Bach cantatas and Bach's Mass in B minor with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Bach's St John Passion with Stephen Cleobury (also on video), Bach's St Markus Passion with Roy Goodman, Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ with Philippe Herreweghe, Handel's Solomon with Paul McCreesh, Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Philip Pickett and Rameau's Dardanus with Pinchgut Opera. He has played the title travesti role in Rameau's Platée, which has been released on DVD.
Filmography
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Movies 7
Lully: Armide (2011)
Acis and Galatea (The Royal Ballet / The Royal Opera) (2009)
Bach: Matthäus Passion - Ton Koopman (2006)
Les Indes Galantes (2004)
Les Boréades (2003)
Platée (2002)
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
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GenderMale
Birthday1964-04-11 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceGlasgow, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsScotland
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