Graham Clark - British character tenor with success in various Wagner roles
Graham Clark has delighted audiences in over 350 Wagner performances – including over 250 performances as Mime and Loge in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Clark was a Director of Physical Education in three schools, and was a Senior Regional Officer with the Sports Council before he decided to devote himself to singing. He made his operatic début with Scottish Opera in 1975. His first Wagner roles were Balthasar Zorn and and David (both in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).
He visited Bayreuth 16 seasons and has done more than 100 performances at the Bayreuther Festspiele. He has been a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera and operahouses in Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin (Deutsche Oper, Deutsche Staatsoper), Bilbao, Bonn, Brussels, Catania, Chicago, Dallas, Geneva, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Madrid (Real, Zarzuela), Matsumoto, Milan La Scala, Munich, Nice, Paris (Bastille, Champs Élysées, Châtelet, Palais Garnier), Rome, Salzburg, San Francisco, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Vancouver, Vienna, Yokohama and Zurich.
Clark has received three nominations for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Opera" Awards (1983, 1986, 1993), including an American Emmy. He won the Sir Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doktor Faust. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters, Loughborough University, in 1999.
Graham Clark: I just switched hobbies (interview)