Aubrey Allicock
Bass-Baritone
Hailed by The New York Times as "sturdy, dynamic, and excellent", Grammy nominated bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock continues to make his mark among opera companies and orchestras internationally.
Aubrey Allicock | These woeful days | The Shining, Act II | Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Allicock’s recent projects have seen him create the role of Thomas Rutling in the world premiere of Jubliee for Seattle Opera, reprise the role of Dick Hallorann The Shining for his debut with Atlanta Opera, Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte & Arvide Abernathy Guys and Dolls in his company debut with Opera Saratoga, and perform his first Leporello Don Giovanni with the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.
Previous career highlights in both opera and concert include the Young Emile Griffith in the world première of Terence Blanchard’s Champion (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Dutch National Opera Washington National Opera; Opéra de Montréal; New Orleans Opera); Escamillo Carmen (Komische Oper Berlin); Title Role Le nozze di Figaro (Salzburger Landestheater; Seattle Opera; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Pero Jones/Chief Mistawasis in the world premiere of Migrations (Welsh National Opera); Bulbul Fakh in the world premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Mamoud The Death of Klinghoffer (The Metropolitan Opera; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Yusef Salaam Central Park Five (Portland Opera); Dick Hallorann in The Shining(Lyric Opera of Kansas City); John Henry in Daniel Roumain's We Shall Not Be Moved (Dutch National Opera; Opera Philadelphia; Mad Hatter/Duck in the U.S. premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); General Groves Doctor Atomic(BBC Symphony Orchestra/Nonesuch Records); bass-baritone soloist in John Adams’s El Niño (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest/Royal Concertgebouw); Argante Rinaldo and Monterone Rigoletto (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Uncle Joe in Delius’s Koanga (Wexford Festival Opera); Minskman Flight and Angelotti Tosca (Seattle Opera); bass soloist Beethoven 9thSymphony (New York Philharmonic); Janusz in Stanislaw Moniuszko's Halka and Pantalone Busoni’s Turandot (Bard Music Festival); Cadmus/Somnus Semele (Opera Omaha); Alberich Das Rheingold and The Pirate King Pirates of Penzance (Virginia Opera); Tiridate Radamisto (Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra); soloist Mozart Gala (Los Angeles Philharmonic); Bernstein Songfest (Carnegie Hall); Tonic and Don Giovanni in Steven Stucky's The Classical Style (Ojai Festival; Carnegie Hall) under the musical direction of conductors such as Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, John Adams, Ottavio Dantone, Gerard Schwarz, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Markus Stenz and David Robertson.
An alumnus of the Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Allicock studied at Grand Canyon University, Indiana University and The Juilliard School of Music.