Engagements & Repertoire

Paul McNamara’s operatic engagements include

Beijing Music Festival; Cape Town Opera; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar; English Touring Opera; Händelfestspiele Halle; La Fenice, Venice; La Monnaie, Brussels; Mainfranken Theater Würzburg; Ópera de Colombia, Bogotá; Opera Ireland; Oper Chemnitz; Oper Halle; Oper Kiel; Oper Köln; Oper Leipzig; Opera Lesna, Sopot; Opera Narodowa Warsaw; Opéra de Rouen Normandie; Opera Theatre Co. (Ireland); Pimlico Opera (England); Landestheater Linz; Landestheater Neustrelitz; Niederlandse Resiopera; Northern Ireland Opera; Opéra de Rouen; Saarländisches Staatstheater; Salzburger Osterfestspiele; Staatsoper Almaty; Staatsoper Hannover; Staatstheater Cottbus; Staatstheater Darmstadt; Staatstheater Kassel; Staatstheater Meiningen; Staatstheater Oldenburg; Staatstheater Schwerin; Staatstheater Wiesbaden; Stadttheater Bern; Stadttheater Bremerhaven; Stadttheater Münster; Theater Aachen; Theater Bielefeld; Theater Bonn; Theater Detmold; Theater Görlitz; Theater Koblenz; Theater Lübeck; Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro; Wuppertaler Bühnen.   

His broad operatic repertoire includes roles such as

Adams Nixon in China (Chairman Mao), Alfano Cyrano de Bergerac (Christian), Beethoven Fidelio (Florestan), Berg Wozzeck (Tambourmajor), Braunfels Jeanne d'Arc (St. Michael), Britten Peter Grimes (Peter), Cavalli Erismena (Flerida), Cilèa Adriana Lecouvreur (Maurizio), Dvořák Rusalka (Prinz), Heggie Dead Man Walking (Father Grenville), Janáček Jenůfa (Laca), Kát’a Kabanova (Tichon), The Cunning Little Vixen (Schoolmaster), Leoncavallo Pagliacci (Canio), Mariotte Salomé (Narraboth), Meyerbeer L’Africaine (Vasco da Gama), Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Iro), Müller-Wieland Nathans Tod (Tempelherr), Mozart Idomeneo (Idomeneo), Penderecki The Devils of Loudun (de Laubardemont), Previn A Streetcar Named Desire (Harold Mitchell), Schillings Mona Lisa (Giovanni de’ Salviati), Strauss Arabella (Graf Elemer), Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus), Die Liebe der Danae (Pollux), Salome (Narraboth/Herodes), Strauß Eine Nacht in Venedig (Herzog), Der Zigeunerbaron (Sándor Barinkay), Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress (Sellem), Tschaikowsky Eugen Onegin (Lenski), Wagner Der fliegende Holländer (Erik), Das Liebesverbot (Claudio), Das Rheingold (Loge/Froh/Mime), Götterdämmerung (Siegfried), Siegfried (Siegfried/Mime), Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser), Tristan und Isolde (Tristan/Melot), Parsifal (Parsifal), Weber Der Freischütz (Max), Zemlinsky Eine florentinische Tragödie (Guido Bardi).    

Opera roles performed as a baritone include

Amendola I Giganti della Montagna (Il Conte), Bernstein Candide (various), Bizet Carmen (Zuniga), Chabrier Le roi malgré lui (Caylus), Händel Rodelinda (Garibaldo), Il pastor fido (Tirenio), Haydn L’infedeltà delusa (Nanni), Mozart Così fan tutte (Guglielmo), Don Giovanni (Leporello), Le nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva/Figaro), Puccini La bohème (Marcello/Schaunard), Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas), Rossini  The Barber of Seville (Figaro), Tchaikovsky Pique Dame (Tomsky), Verdi Rigoletto (Marullo). 

On the concert platform he has appeared with many orchestras and ensembles including

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, American Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulez Ensemble, Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, SWR Radio Orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle, Stavanger Symfoniorkest, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck.

His extensive concert repertoire includes works by

Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Bruckner, Stanford, Elgar, Schönberg, Tippett, Finzi, Britten.