Bass-baritone Craig Colclough’s 2022–2023 season will feature a prominent return to Los Angeles Opera, as he sings the title role in Le nozze di Figaro for the company’s new production, directed by filmmaker James Gray. He returned to the Atlanta Opera to make his role debut as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and reprised his acclaimed Monterone for further performances at The Metropolitan Opera.
This summer he returns to Tiroler Festspiele Erl to continue the role of Alberich in their productions of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. Future seasons include performances with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and a return to Los Angeles Opera for Leporello in Don Giovanni.
Recent notable engagements include his role debut as Alberich in Das Rheingold with the Tiroler Festspiele Erl; his debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago, singing the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth; his Bayerische Staatsoper debut as Macbeth; Telramund in Lohengrin with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Scarpia in Tosca with the Canadian Opera Company; Fra Melitone in La forza del Destino with Oper Frankfurt; and appearances with Belgium’s Opera Vlaanderen, as Telramund, Kurwenal, Macbeth and the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff.
His recent engagements include his Metropolitan Opera debut in the fall of 2019, as the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth; Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Scarpia in Tosca and Jack Rance in The Girl of the Golden West with English National Opera, Scarpia for his debut with Canadian Opera Company, Peter in Hansel and Gretel for LA Opera and the title role in Don Pasquale with Minnesota Opera and Arizona Opera. A house favorite with Belgium’s Opera Vlaanderen, he has appeared with the company as Telramund, Kurwenal, Macbeth and the title role of Falstaff, in a production directed by Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz.
Known for his versatility, Craig Colclough has appeared as Peter Vogel in Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates with the Dallas Opera; the Storyteller in John Adams’ A Flowering Tree with Opera Queensland in Australia; Hare in the world premiere of Burke and Hare with Boston Lyric Opera; Pistola in Falstaff with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Fra Melitone in La Forza del Destino with Oper Frankfurt and Doristo in L’arbore di Diana with Minnesota Opera.
He has collaborated with acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel for performances of Timur in Turandot with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Additional credits include the Israeli Symphony Orchestra, California Philharmonic, Capitol Records, Abbey Road Studios and the soundtrack of the film Rolled.