ALLEN, THOMAS (b 1944 )

Sir Thomas Allen is an established star of the great opera houses of the world. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where in 2006 he celebrated the 35th anniversary of his début with the company, he has sung over forty rôles. In 2006 he also celebrated the 25th anniversary of his début at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. A regular guest at the world’s great opera houses, he is particularly acclaimed for his Billy Budd, Pelléas, Eugene Onegin, Ulisse and Beckmesser, as well as the great Mozart rôles of Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo and, of course, Don Giovanni. Equally renowned on the concert platform, he has appeared with many of the world’s great orchestras and conductors. The greatest part of his repertoire has been extensively recorded with such distinguished names as Solti, Levine, Marriner, Haitink, Rattle, Sawallisch and Muti. In the New Year’s Honours of 1989 he was created a Commander of the British Empire and in the 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor.

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BRITTEN: Billy Budd (ENO, 1988) (PAL)	100278
BRITTEN: Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 2 (English Song, Vol. 13)	8.557222
BRITTEN: Tribute to Benjamin Britten (A) (PAL/NTSC)	102103
CORIGLIANO, J.: Dylan Thomas Trilogy (A) (T. Allen, T. Jackson, J. Tessier, Nashville Symphony and Chorus, L. Slatkin)	8.559394
JANACEK: Cunning Little Vixen (The) (Chatelet, 1995) (PAL)	100240
LA SCALA COLLECTION BOX SET (THE) (NTSC)	OALS3000BD
MOZART - Glyndebourne Collection (NTSC)	100973
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte (NTSC)	101081
MOZART: Don Giovanni (La Scala, 1987) (NTSC)	OALS3001D
MOZART: Don Giovanni (NTSC)	100021
MOZART: Don Giovanni (PAL)	100020
OPERA HIGHLIGHTS, Vol. 2 (NTSC)	102049
STRAUSS II, J.: Fledermaus (Die) (Glyndebourne, 2003) (HD-DVD, NTSC)	OAHD5004D
STRAUSS II, J.: Fledermaus (Die) (Glyndebourne, 2003) (NTSC)	OA0890D
STRAUSS II, J.: Fledermaus (Die) (Glyndebourne, 2003) (PAL)	OA0889D
STRAUSS II: Fledermaus (Die) (Glyndebourne, 2003) (Blu-ray, NTSC)	OABD7004D