Randal Scotting

Randall Scotting has become a sought-after artist by some of the world’s most esteemed opera houses. He recently made spectacular debuts at The Royal Opera House in London, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Staatsoper Hamburg, with future engagements including leading roles on stage at Seattle Opera, Frankfurt Opera, in Sydney, Australia, and in Houston. Randall’s breakout moment came in 2019 when he stepped in last-minute at the Royal Opera House to perform Apollo in Britten’s Death in Venice singing all performances after opening night. He then joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera and has been consistently working at top-level houses since. He received rave reviews as the Refugee in a filmed version of Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight, as well as praise for the leading role of Adonis in the Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2023 world premiere of Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone, led by conductor Kent Nagano. Future performances see him singing in several Handel operas, including the title character in Amadigi, Ruggiero in three different productions of Alcina, and Goffredo in Rinaldo.
Randall’s debut solo album, titled The Crown: Heroic Arias for Senesino, recorded with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, consists of modern-day premiere recordings of virtuoso baroque arias. For this significant project, led by conductor Laurence Cummings, Randall was praised internationally for his ‘ravishing vocalism’, ‘full, darkly mellifluous voice’, and ‘impressive beauty and warmth’. His second album, comprised of lute and folk songs with Grammy Award winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs, titled Lovesick, received equally excellent reviews declared that the album is a ‘gorgeous release’, ‘skillfully planned and beautifully executed’, and ‘not only beautifully sung, but lived’.
Randall’s past engagements have linked him with major US and European opera houses and venues including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Detroit Opera, Carnegie Hall, Edinburgh’s Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Italy’s Spoleto Festival, the Göttingen Handel Festival, Boston Baroque, the New York Philharmonic, and many others. Leading operatic roles for which he has received particular acclaim include Handel’s Rinaldo, Orlando, and Giulio Cesare; Gluck’s Orfeo; and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Randall trained at the Royal College of Music in London, the Juilliard School in New York, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. He made his leading operatic debut in Vivaldi’s Ercole su’l Termodonte with Il Complesso Barocco at Spoleto’s Festival dei due mondi (available on DVD) and Randall can be heard on other recordings including a modern cantata for chorus and countertenor, entitled Dive: A Water Music, and as the title role in the oratorio Santo Stefano primo re dell’Ungheria by Antonio Caldara.