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Leslie John Flanagan
Adjunct Instructor of Voice

Email: ljflanagan@okcu.edu
Phone:
Office: A326

Australian baritone Leslie John Flanagan, adjunct instructor of voice at the Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, has won several major singing awards and scholarships and been a winner and finalist in key vocal competitions. He studied at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow.

After completing his studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he joined English National Opera in 1999 as one of the first members of ENO’s Jerwood Young Singers Programme. In 2002, his first year as a full ENO Company Principal, he opened ENO’s 2002-03 season at the Coliseum as Figaro in Barber of Seville.

Other ENO roles include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Barney in the world première of The Silver Tassie, Schaunard (La bohème), Peter (St John Passion), Marullo (Rigoletto), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Donner (The Rhinegold), Yamadori (Madame Butterfly), Moralès (Carmen), Starveling (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Fiorello (Barber of Seville). Other operatic appearances include Guglielmo for English Touring Opera, Malatesta (Don Pasquale) for Clonter Opera, Schaunard (La bohème) at the Mananan International Festival, Papageno (The Magic Flute) in Australia, and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Smirnov (The Bear), Escamillo (Carmen), and the title role in Don Giovanni, at the RSAMD.

Concert and recital credits include Britten’s War Requiem at the openings of the Brno International Music Festival and the Bratislava International Music Festival, Carmina Burana with Sir David Willcocks at the Royal Albert Hall, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brahms and Fauré Requiems, Peter in Elgar’s The Apostles, Haydn Harmoniemesse, Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore a recital at Wigmore Hall with Wolfram Rieger and ENO Jerwood Young Singers, and the Orderly and French Officer in a concert performance of War and Peace at the 2003 BBC Proms. Other engagements include the role of Escamillo in Carmen for Longborough Opera Festival, Silvio (Pagliacci) for Haddo House Opera Festival, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen for the Ryedale Festival and the baritone soloist with the Leeds University Chorus and Orchestra in Elgar’s Caractacus.

Recent engagements have included The Forester (Rusalka) and Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for the Oklahoma Opera Theatre, Nilakantha (Lakme) and Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) for the Oklahoma Opera Theatre and his debut with the Fort Worth Opera as Dancairo (Carmen) and The Prison Officer (Dead Man Walking).