For Opera North, British tenor Alex Banfield’s credits include Sam Kaplan in Street Scene; Jonathan Dale in their UK premiere of Silent Night directed by Tim Albery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by American composer Kevin Puts; Nikolio Greek Passion (Martinů) directed by Christopher Alden; and Raoul de St Brioche The Merry Widow; and The Prince of Persia Turandot and Slave & Second Nazerine Salome, both conducted by Sir Richard Armstrong, for their concert series. Selected highlights from Alex’s extensive oratorio repertoire include the Requiem in C Major (Michael Haydn) in Bilbao, Spain, Fantasia in C Minor (Beethoven) for the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Messiah (Handel) for the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Sage Gateshead, Coronation Mass (Mozart) at Snape Maltings, Israel in Egypt (Handel) at Chester Cathedral with The Liverpool Sinfonia, and Crucifixion (Stainer) for Newcastle Cathedral. As a sought-after Bach performer, Alex performed regularly with the Liverpool Bach Collective as a specialist in the Cantata repertoire, and has also performed many of Bach’s great works. Live on BBC Radio 4, Alex performed frequently as a soloist for the Daily Service. He also performed for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra live on BBC Radio 1 with Clean Bandit, and live on BBC Radio 2 with Boy George. He sang in the Serenade to Music with Malcolm Martineau and in the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Amaretti Consort. Last summer he performed in recital in Northumberland, raising over £800 for the charity Henry Dancer Days.