- Le Nozze di Figaro – Count Almaviva
Latvian bass-baritone Pauls Putnins sings regularly both in UK and abroad. His appearances in opera include Colline (La bohème) for English National Opera and Opéra de Nancy, Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) for Opera Colorado, Denver and Russian National Orchestra, Moscow, Escamillo (Carmen) for New Zealand Opera, Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) for Scottish Opera, Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Latvian National Opera and Teatru Manoel, Valletta, Malta, Lilaque le Fils (Boulevard Solitude) for Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia) in St Petersburg and Riga, Reinmar (Tannhäuser) in Barcelona and Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) with the Moscow PhilharmonicOrchestra. At Longborough Festival he recently covered Fasolt (Das Rheingold) and Wotan (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Siegfried).
Opera appearances in UK include Nettuno (Idomeneo) and Second Armoured Man/Second Priest (Die Zauberflöte) both for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Nettuno (Idomeneo) and Angelotti (Tosca) for English National Opera, Don Fernando (Fidelio) for Garsington Opera, The Dutchman (Die fliegende Holländer) for OperaUpClose, Imperial Commisioner (Madama Butterfly) and Ramfis (Aida) at the Royal Albert Hall and rôles in Flavio for Early Opera Company and Ariadne auf Naxos and La traviata for Birmingham Opera Company. In Longborough’s just completed Wagner Ring Cycle Pauls took the role of Fasolt (Das Rheingold).
Pauls has an international concert career and has sung with orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel, Moscow and Bucharest Philharmonics and Russian National Orchestra in a wide range of repertoire including all of the Bach Passions, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Beethoven’s Symphony No 9.
His recordings include Ferrondo in Mercadante’s Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia, Ricardo in Meyerbeer’s Margherita D’Anjou for Opera Rara, Everyman in Walford Davies’ Everyman under David Drummond as well as DVDs of Jonathan Miller’s production of La bohème at English National Opera for Warner Classics and Lehnhoff’s production of Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at the Liceu, Barcelona for Euroarts.