Randle, Thomas (1958– )

US tenor. After study at University of California at Los Angeles he sang in concert throughout Europe and the USA, including performances of Tippett's Songs of Dov in Los Angeles and Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Leipzig. He made his opera debut with English National Opera ensemble in 1988, as Tamino; he returned as Pelléas (1990) and as Dionysus in the first performance of Buller's Bakxai (1992). In Aix he sang in The Fairy Queen (1989) and at Valencia appeared as Monteverdi's Orfeo. He was involved in the European tour with the Peter Brook version of Pelléas. He has also appeared with Netherlands Opera (1994), in the first performance of Peter Schaat's Symposion, on the life of Tchaikovsky; with Opera North; and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1993–94), as Robert Devereux in Gloriana.