Reuben Willcox
Reuben specialises in opera, English and German song and German and Italian language coaching.
Vocal Garage
Reuben is available to teach one-two-one. His fee is £40 per hour. As a Singing Nest Friend, you will receive your first three lessons at a discounted rate of just £36.
Please pre book now if you're interested in joining Reuben in the Live Lounge. Exclusively for SH Friends only.
Reuben studied at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Juilliard School in New York and the Opera School of the Mannheim/Heidelberg Musikhochschule in Germany. A prize-winner at the 1999 "Neue Stimmen" International Singing Competition, he has also won awards from the Peter Moores Foundation, the Countess of Munster and Ian Fleming Musical Trusts and the Richard Wagner Verband.
He was a soloist at the Bonn Opera from 2000-2005 where he sang many of the major roles for lyric baritone including: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Guglielmo and Papageno; Dandini (Rossini, La Cenerentola); Figaro (Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia); Malatesta (Donizetti, Don Pasquale); Marcello (Puccini, La Bohème); Donner (Wagner, Das Rheingold); Heerrufer (Wagner, Lohengrin) and the Father in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. He has also sung leading roles from the baroque, operetta and late twentieth century repertoire.
As a guest soloist, he has sung at theatres throughout Germany including the Berlin Staatsoper, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Cologne Opera. He has sung the role of Aeneas in Sasha Walz' production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, the Opéra de Montpellier, the Netherlands Opera and Saddler's Wells in London.
His oratorio and concert work includes performances at the International Beethoven Festival, Bonn, the Granada Festival, Spain, Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Sweden, Handel's Jephtha with the Collegium Vocale Gent in Paris.
He has sung in radio and television broadcasts in Germany (SWR, WDR, ZDF and ARTE) and throughout Europe.
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