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Spencer
Britten

Tenor.Dancer.Actor

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ABOUT

ME!

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Spencer Britten is a Chinese-Canadian artist “oozing with mirth and personality” (Opera Canada.)  His accomplishments in Opera & Musical Theatre have led him to work internationally with companies including Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Glyndebourne Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hungarian State Opera, Royal Opera Versailles, Bregenzer Festspiele, and The Glimmerglass Festival. Spencer has sung with the likes of conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, and Simone Young. Concert work has been notably punctuated by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Metropolitain’s Messiah (2023,) streamed on Stage+ (Deutsche Grammophon.) 

   Acclaimed performances include Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri (Bregenzer Festspiele) and Janek in Claus Guth’s new production of The Makropulos Case (Staatsoper Unter den Linden) where he gave “great emotional spectrum” (Vorarlberg Nachrichten) and “[won] the sympathy of the audience” (Die Welt.)

   Spencer also appeared in the critically acclaimed Messiah/Complex (Against the Grain Theatre,) representing the queer and Asian communities in this all-Canadian take on Handel’s Messiah. The digital production, including Spencer's "joyful Comfort Ye" (New York Times/The Globe & Mail) and "deliciously sly Ev’ry valley" (Opera Going Toronto) was Juno Nominated and won the Noteworthy Category of Opera America's Awards for Digital Excellence. 

​   Spencer was recently a finalist in the Edmonton Opera Rumbold Vocal Prize (3rd Prize,) as well as the Opera Crown Tbilisi International Voice Competition. He was a semi-finalist  in the Paris Opera Competition and a final rounds contestant at Neue Stimmen.

He has been a winner/recipient  of The Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation For Young Canadian Opera Singers Grant, The Vancouver Opera Guild Career Development Grant, The Vancouver Opera Chorus Endowment Career Development Grant, The Joseph and Melitta Kandler Scholarship for the Advanced Music Study, and The Barbara Eves-Motomochi Memorial Fund.

Opera in a Nutshell

Opera in a Nutshell

Opera in a Nutshell
In a Nutshell - Die Fledermaus

In a Nutshell - Die Fledermaus

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In a Nutshell - Carmen

In a Nutshell - Carmen

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In A Nutshell - Don Pasquale

In A Nutshell - Don Pasquale

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"The scene was tasty, and this young man is a born actor. We already know that he will go far"
      -(translated from) Ludwig Van Montreal

About
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Rumbold winner sings in Edmonton Opera's Home for the Holidays

A shifting industry is paving the way for audiences and performers to be themselves

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& Performance

With  Michael Lewis at Wear Yellow Proudly

about the experiences Lyndsey Britten and I had growing up as mixed Chinese - Canadian performers in the Performing Arts.

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“...a "born Rossini tenor" with flashing coloratura and effortless high notes.”
- (translated from) Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung

"Britten and Tufford were very well matched with warm, sumptuous duets."
   
-Schmopera (on a Midsummer Night's Dream)

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Vancouver Opera 2023 - Tim Matheson Photography

[Hermia - Hillary Tufford]

Upcoming

Up Next

Opera Al Fresco

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Spencer returns to Edmonton Opera as a soloist for their Opera Al Fresco concert at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden. The last time Edmonton saw Spencer was at the opera's Home for the Holiday concert in 2021. Spencer sang a memorable "I heard the bells on Christmas Day."

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Performances lost due to COVID-19:

  • Petrarch Sonnets (Liszt) - Concert Cycles 
       - L'Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal

  • Snowboy - West Side Story (Bernstein)
       - Teatro Lirico di Cagliari  (Italian Debut)

  • Tamino (Cover) - Die Zauberflöte  (Mozart)
       - Opéra de Montréal

  • Rick - I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky  (Adams)
       - Cincinnati May Festival (Cincinnati Debut)

  • Soloist - Grande Première des Futures Étoiles
       -
    Fondation de la Place des Arts

  • Ubaldo - Armida (Haydn)
       - Bregenzer Festspiele (Austrian Debut)

  • Snowboy (+Baby John Cover) - West Side Story  (Bernstein)
       - Opera Nacional de Chile (South American Debut)

  • Heinrich der Schreiber - Tannhäuser (Wagner)​​
       - Staatsoper Unter den Linden​​

  • 4th Jude - Salome (R.Strauss)
       - Staatsoper Unter den Linden

  • Borsa - Rigoletto (Verdi)
       - Staatsoper Unter den Linden

  • Soloist - Coronation Mass (Mozart)
       - Orchestre Symphonique de Québec

  • Gastone - La Traviata (Verdi)
       - Staatsoper Unter den Linden

  • Seigen - The Scarlet Princess (Louie)
       - The Governor General Performing Arts Award - Canada​​

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BOB QUINTANA
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