Glen Cunningham
Tenor

Glen Cunningham, Tenor from the Highlands of Scotland, is a graduate of the Royal College of Music’s Opera Studio and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Glen was a member of Opéra Studio at Opéra national du Rhin 2022/24, where he performed roles including L'ombre d'un poète Guercœur, Der Schreiber in Der Schatzgräber and the Governor in Candide. He jumped in to the title role of Candide for two performances and was hailed as the revelation of the night without contest’ by Forum Opera. He was a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2021/2022 where he performed roles including Francis Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lord Dramaleigh Utopia Limited. Glen recently made his German debut at Theater Freiburg in the role of Nick The Handmaid’s Tale in the German Premiere of the opera. 

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In season 2024/25 he performs the title role of Albert Herring at Scottish Opera with performances at the Lammermuir Festival, Glasgow and Edinburgh. He will then reprise the role of Nick in The Handmaid’s Tale (Theater Freiburg), make his debut in Switzerland as Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra de Lausanne) and return to the Opéra national du Rhin to play Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd. He will also join the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse as the Tenor soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

Glen was featured on the world premiere recording of Jonathan Sheffer’s Four Ten-Minute Operas with the RNSO, released in March 2024.

His debut song album "My heart's in the Highlands" accompanied by Anna Tilbrook, is scheduled for release in January 2025 on Delphian Records. 

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Operatic experience includes;

Albert Herring, title role in Britten's opera (Scottish Opera); Nick in The Handmaid’s Tale by Poul Ruders (Theater Freiburg); L'ombre d'un poète in Guercoeur by Albéric Magnard (Opéra national du Rhin); Candide and Governor in Candide (Opéra national du Rhin); Der Schreiber in Der Schatzgräber (Opéra national du Rhin); cover La Couf in Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Glydnebourne); cover Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne); Francis Flute in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Scottish Opera). February 2022. Lord Dramaleigh in G&S Utopia Limited (Scottish Opera) October 2021 & March 2022. Cover of Marco in G&S The Gondoliers (Scottish Opera) October 2021 & March 2022. Italian Tenor in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington Opera) June 2021. Faninals Haushofmeister in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington Opera) Summer 2021. Gonzalve in Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole” (Royal College of Music) March 2020. Ecclitico in Haydn’s “Il mondo della luna” (Royal College of Music) November 2019. Cover of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” (Garsington Opera) Summer 2019. Robinson Crusoe in Offenbach’s “Robinson Crusoe” (Royal College of Music) March 2019. Basilio in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” directed by Sir Thomas Allen (Royal College of Music) November 2018. La Couf and Le Fils in Poulenc’s “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” (Les Azuriales Opera Young Artists Programme) August 2018. Cover of Ferrando in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” (Opera Holland Park) Summer 2018. “Flute” in Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Royal College of Music) March 2018. Youngest Son in Judith Weir’s “The Vanishing Bridegroom” (British Youth Opera) September 2017. 

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Glen was a Basil Coleman Opera Scholar supported by the Independent Opera Scholarship and the Charles Jacobs Scholarship. He was generously supported throughout his studies by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Robertson Trust, The Cross Trust and Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships Trust. Glen was also a Josephine Baker Trust Scholar, a Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award holder and is an Opera Prelude and Les Azuriales Young Artist.
 

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