La bohème 2023 Programme

DAVID SCOTT
BASS
DOGANIERE
David Scott completed his degree
and masters in the TU Dublin
Conservatoire, where he sang
the roles of Jupiter in Offenbach’s
Orpheus in the Underworld, Second
Priest in Mozart’s The Magic Flute
and Joseph Beuys in Andrew Synott’s Breakdown.
Other roles include Don Inigo Gomez in Ravel’s
L’heure espagnole (Opera in the Open) and Aeneas
in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and he created the role
of Leopold Bloom in Eric Sweeney’s Ulysses. He is a
core member of the Irish National Opera Chorus and
sang the role of Lerchanau’s Second Servant in INO’s
production of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. He also
covered the roles Chou En Lai in John Adams’s Nixon
in China and Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia for
Wide Open Opera. In oratorio, he has sung bass solos
in Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, and Britten’s
Rejoice in the Lamb (Dublin Bach Singers), and the
baritone solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Fauré’s
Requiem and Durufle’s Requiem (Jubilate Choir).
KEVIN NEVILLE
BASS
SERGENTE
Kevin Neville is a bass from
Limerick city. While on the Northern
Ireland Opera Studio, he played
Don Alfonso in a reduced version
of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. At the
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
and Mananan International Festival of Music he
played the Regent in Balfe’s The Sleeping Queen.
He made his debut with Irish National Opera in
Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. Since then he has
gone on to play L’ufficiale del Registro in Puccini’s
Madama Butterfly as well as Lerchenau’s servant and
Boots in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. He created the
roles of George de La Hare in Fiona Linnane’s No. 2
Pery Square and Old George in Robert Ely’s 1936:
Fishing. He has performed as a concert soloist at the
National Concert Hall, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin,
Ulster Hall, Belfast, and the University Concert
Hall, Limerick in repertoire that included Handel’s
Messiah, and as well as Mendelssohn’s Elijah and
Die erste Walpurgisnacht.
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