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Bass, Conall O’Neill is known for his “well rounded basso cantante” (Opera News) and commanding stage presence.
Roles Conall has sung include Colline (La bohème), Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Adonis (Venus and Adonis), Badger/ Priest (The Cunning Little Vixen), for which this particular production own an award for best ensemble at the Offies Awards in London, Raimondo (Lucia di Lamermoor), Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring) and Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Theseus (A Midsummer's Night Dream) Mr Flint (Billy Budd), Davenaut (Der Vampyr) and Ford in Sir John in Love (Vaughan Williams), in an Opera Holland Park/ British Youth Opera co-production.
Conall has a close relationship with the Wexford Festival Opera, having been a young artist in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons, where he sang Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Pistola in Falstaff, (broadcast by RTÈ) and L’Oste in Edmea.
Other career highlights include when Conall performed the part of Norman Allin in Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music conducted by John Wilson for a Gala at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the now King Charles III.
Conall holds a Masters in Performance and a Bachelors in Music (Hons) from the Royal College of Music, London, where he was an RCM Award Holder supported by a Herbert Howells & Thomas Fielden Scholarship, Johnson Scholarship and a Pauline Hartley Award.
Throughout his career and studies, Conall has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Sir Thomas Allen, Gregory Kunde, Ernesto Palacio, Ermonela Jaho, Brindley Sherratt and Matthew Rose, amongst others. Previously, Conall studied at Imperial College London from which he graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Biology.
Future engagements include Mr Flint in Billy Budd for New Palace Opera, Davenaut in Der Vampyr for Gothic Opera and Zeretsky in Eugene Onegin for Hampstead Garden Opera.