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Born: September 10, 1944 Country: England

Recognized as much for his acting ability as for his fine singing, baritone Thomas Allen brings a strong sense of style and character to all types of music; his broad repertory includes Monteverdi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, the lighter Wagner roles, Britten's Billy Budd, Prokofiev's War and Peace, and Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen.

Allen grew up in a mining community in the north of England where his father ran a glee club and a dance Read more band, provided accompaniment for a local choir, and collected musical instruments. As a boy, Allen learned both piano and organ from his father, and sang in various local choirs. By the age of 16, he was singing baritone solos in the school choir, and even participating as a soloist in various local recitals, as well as continuing his organ lessons and studying music at school. He successfully auditioned for the Royal College of Music in 1964, where he intended to focus his energies on lieder and oratorio, but by 1967 he had already made his first operatic appearance as a substitute singer in Benjamin's The Prima Donna.

In 1968, before graduating, he won the Queen's Prize, an award that included lessons with James Lockhart, the new music director of the Welsh National Opera. Lockhart encouraged him to audition for the WNO, and he was engaged in 1968 to join the company the next year. Between that time and the beginning of his engagement, he sang in the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus.

At the Welsh National Opera, Lockhart continued to act as a coach and mentor, and Allen made his debut as Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in 1969. He made his Covent Garden debut as

Donald in Billy Budd in 1971 (he also took on the title role for the WNO the same year), his Glyndebourne debut in 1973 as Papageno, sang his first Wagner role (Melot in Tristan and Isolde, at Covent Garden), and created the role of the Count in Musgrave's The Voice of Ariadne at the 1974 Aldeburgh Festival. During this period he gave special attention to the major Mozart baritone roles, and, in 1977, sang his first Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival, to great acclaim for both his singing and his acting. He garnered even more attention as the Count in a performance of Figaro a few months later at Covent Garden, and made his Met debut as Papageno in 1981. In 1980, he sang Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for the first time at the Welsh National Opera, and this role soon joined Don Giovanni as one of his signature roles. During the 1980s, he started adding a few Verdi roles to his repertoire, such as Posa in Don Carlo and Ford in Falstaff, though he was wary of the heavier roles. In 1999, he was knighted in Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honors.

He recorded two equally fine performances of Don Giovanni -- one based on a Glyndebourne performance with Haitink (EMI CDS7 47037-8), the other on Philips with Marriner. His Eugene Onegin, conducted by Levine (Deutsche Grammophon), captures him in magnificent form in a memorable role. Read less

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Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin / Levine, Allen, Freni, Von Otter

Release Date: 10/25/1990 Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog: 423959 Number of Discs: 2

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Duparc: Songs / Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen, Roger Vignoles

Release Date: 06/21/1993 Label: Hyperion
Catalog: 66323 Number of Discs: 1

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More Songs My Father Taught Me / Allen, Martineau

Release Date: 08/12/2003 Label: Hyperion
Catalog: 67374 Number of Discs: 1

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The Opera Album / Alagna, Callas, Pavarotti, Gheorghiu, Et Al

Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 67830 Release Date: 08/13/2002 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Gioachino Rossini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner ...
Performer: Thomas Hampson, José Carreras, Jessye Norman, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ...
Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti, Riccardo Muti, Alain Lombard, Klaus Tennstedt ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Toscana Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Rhine Opera Chorus ...

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Mozart - The Greatest Hits

Label: Decca Catalog: 472409 Release Date: 07/16/2002 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux, Elena Gilels, Emil Gilels, Margaret Marshall ...
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis, Karl Böhm, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Georg Solti ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra ...

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Stanford: Bluebird, Songs Of The Sea, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Agnus Dei

Label: Decca Catalog: 470384 Release Date: 05/20/2002 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Performer: Frederick Stone, Kathleen Ferrier, Martin How, John Scott ...
Conductor: Lionel Dakers, George Guest, Boris Ord, David Hill ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal School of Church Music Choirs, Cambridge King's College Choir, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Orchestra ...

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Mahler - The Complete Recordings / Sinopoli, Philharmonia

Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog: 471451 Release Date: 05/14/2002 Number of Discs: 15
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Performer: Bernd Weikl, Iris Vermillion, Keith Lewis, Brigitte Fassbaender ...
Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Shinyukai Choir ...

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Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Marriner, Baltsa, Allen, Best

Label: Philips Catalog: 446448 Release Date: 03/01/2002 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Performer: Thomas Allen, Matthew Best, Robert Lloyd, Sally Burgess ...
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Ambrosian Opera Chorus
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On The Idle Hill Of Summer - Sir Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons

Label: Emi Classics Special Import Catalog: 67428 Release Date: 05/01/2001 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Roger Quilter, George Butterworth, Graham Peel, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons
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Opera - Mozart: Marriage Of Figaro (Highlights) / Muti

Label: Emi Seraphim Catalog: 74129 Release Date: 10/24/2000 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Alejandro Ramirez, Thomas Allen, Ann Murray, Margaret Price ...
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

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Monteverdi-Henze: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria / Tate

Label: Orfeo D'or Catalog: 528003 Release Date: 09/19/2000 Number of Discs: 3
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Performer: Douglas Ahlstedt, Josef Protschka, Harald Stamm, Alejandro Ramirez ...
Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
Orchestra/Ensemble: Spinario Ensemble, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tölz Boys Choir

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Mozart: Don Giovanni / Conlon, Allen, Vaness, Et Al

Label: Arthaus Musik Catalog: 100021 Release Date: 08/01/2000 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Ferruccio Furlanetto, Thomas Allen, Carolyn James, Reinhard Dorn ...
Conductor: James Conlon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra

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Shostakovich, Schoenberg: Chamber Works / Nash Ensemble

Label: Virgin Classics Catalog: 61760 Release Date: 06/27/2000 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Thomas Allen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Nash Ensemble

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Mackerras, Murray, Allen

Label: Virgin Classics Special Import Catalog: 61202 Release Date: 05/23/2000 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Performer: Ann Murray, Thomas Allen
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Favorite Mozart Arias / Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Label: Telarc Catalog: 80529 Release Date: 11/23/1999 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Thomas Allen, Barbara Hendricks, June Anderson, Jerry Hadley ...
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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Gilbert & Sullivan / Mackerras, Welsh National Opera, Et Al

Label: Telarc Catalog: 80500 Release Date: 07/27/1999 Number of Discs: 5
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Performer: Richard Suart, Pamela Helen Stephen, Alwyn Mellor, Neill Archer ...
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Chorus

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The Best Opera Album In The World...ever!

Label: Virgin Classics Catalog: 42203 Release Date: 07/27/1999 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Giacomo Puccini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jules Massenet ...
Performer: José Carreras, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé, Roberto Alagna ...
Conductor: Alain Lombard, Georges Prêtre, Riccardo Muti, Sir Charles Mackerras ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Rhine Opera Chorus, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, ORTF National Orchestra ...

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Britten: Peter Grimes / Davis, Vickers, Harper, Et Al

Label: Philips Duo Catalog: 462847 Release Date: 06/15/1999 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Jon Vickers, Jonathan Summers, Heather Harper, Elisabeth Bainbridge ...
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

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Orff: Carmina Burana / Armstrong, Allen, Previn

Label: Emi Great Recordings Of The Century Catalog: 66951 Release Date: 03/09/1999 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Carl Orff
Performer: Thomas Allen, Gerald English, Sheila Armstrong
Conductor: André Previn
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, St. Clement Danes Grammar School Boys Choir
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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen Of The Guard / Marriner

Label: Philips Duo Catalog: 462508 Release Date: 01/12/1999 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Performer: Jean Rigby, Kurt Streit, Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd ...
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
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Orff: Carmina Burana

Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 566899 Release Date: 11/06/1998
Composer: Carl Orff
Performer: Gerald English, Sheila Armstrong, Thomas Allen
Conductor: André Previn
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, St Clement Danes School Choir, London Symphony Chorus

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Faure, Durufle: Requiems / Best, Corydon Singers, English Co

Label: Hyperion Catalog: 67070 Release Date: 05/12/1998 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Maurice Duruflé, Gabriel Fauré
Performer: Ann Murray, Thomas Allen, Charles Tunnell, Thomas Trotter ...
Conductor: Matthew Best
Orchestra/Ensemble: Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra

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Brahms, Wolf: Lieder / Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons

Label: Virgin Classics Catalog: 61418 Release Date: 05/05/1998 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms
Performer: Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons
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Greatest Opera Show On Earth

Label: Decca Catalog: 4581182 Release Date: 08/11/1997 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Léo Delibes ...
Performer: Bryn Terfel, Tatiana Troyanos, Renata Tebaldi, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ...
Conductor: Sir Georg Solti, Richard Bonynge, Herbert von Karajan, Alberto Erede ...

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Bravissimo! - The Best Of Bel Canto

Label: Philips Catalog: 454311 Release Date: 04/22/1997 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti
Performer: John del Carlo, Agnes Baltsa, Carol Malone, Felicity Palmer ...
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner, Claudio Scimone, Semyon Bychkov, Donato Renzetti ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra ...

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Gilbert & Sullivan - Highlights / Mackerras, Welsh Opera

Label: Telarc Catalog: 80431 Release Date: 01/23/1996 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Performer: Richard Suart, Peter Savidge, Barry Banks, Rebecca Evans ...
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Chorus

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Fauré: Requiem / Marriner, Mcnair, Allen

Label: Philips Catalog: 446084 Release Date: 11/14/1995 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Maurice Ravel, Florent Schmitt, Charles Koechlin, Gabriel Fauré
Performer: Sylvia McNair, Thomas Allen, John Birch
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus
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Tippett: King Priam / Atherton, London Sinfonietta

Label: Chandos Catalog: 9406 Release Date: 11/14/1995 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Michael Tippett
Performer: Felicity Palmer, Thomas Allen, Norman Bailey, Yvonne Minton ...
Conductor: David Atherton
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Chorus

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