Opie, Alan (1945– )

English baritone. He studied at the London Opera Centre and made his debut for the Sadler's Wells Theatre (now English National Opera)in 1969, as Papageno. He returned to the London Coliseum as Oblonsky in the first performance of Hamilton's Anna Karenina (1981), and also performed as Wagner's Beckmesser (1984), Verdi's Germont and Melitone, and Busoni's Faust.

He continued to sing in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he made his debut in 1971, in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia; he was subsequently the Traveller in Britten's Death in Venice (1992). He sang the title role in Kodály's Háry János at Buxton (1982) and Beckmesser at the 1982 Bayreuth Festival. He sang at Glyndebourne from 1990, as Britten's Sid (Albert Herring) and Balstrode. He made his debut at La Scala, Milan, as Berio's Outis in 1996.