Charles Brett

British countertenor Charles Brett is among the leading specialists from the Baroque choral and oratorio repertoire. He researched at King’s University, Cambridge, producing his London debut in 1965 within a efficiency of Bach’s Magnificat. In 1983, he co-founded the Amaryllis Consort, which he was also the movie director. He has produced many recordings, including Purcell’s Fairy Queen (beneath the baton of Benjamin Britten) and birthday odes, Bach’s Mass in B small, and many Handel oratorios. Brett continues to be less energetic on the opera stage, but actually there he offers appeared in a few significant productions. His operatic debut was at Graz in 1984, inside a revival of Angelica vincitrice di Alcina by J.J. Fux. In the Ludwigsburg Event, he sang Athamas inside a German-language edition of Handel’s Semele. He toured France with Gluck’s La clemenza di Tito using the conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire, and sang Britten’s Oberon in 1987 at Aachen.