Scottish baritone Arthur Bruce is a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, a Samling Artist, and a Britten—Pears Young Artist. He is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Alexander Gibson Opera School, and English National Opera's 'Opera Works' programme. In 2018 Arthur was in the final round of the 'Concorso per il Biennio di perfezionamento per cantanti lirici' at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Recent engagements include Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) for Opera Bohemia; Schaunard (La bohème); Guglielmo (Così fan tutte); Belcore (L’elisir d’amore); Ford [cover] (Falstaff); Starveling (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); Antonio (The Gondoliers); Phantis (Utopia, Limited); Angus (The Narcissistic Fish); Un Cenciaiuolo (Iris); & David (Amadeus & the Bard), all for Scottish Opera; Artidoro (Gli sposi malcontenti) for Bampton Classical Opera; title rôle (Gianni Schicchi) for the RCS Alexander Gibson Opera School; Zurga (Les pêcheurs de perles) for Edinburgh Grand Opera; Kuligin (Kát'a Kabanová) for Fulham Opera Workshops; Pierre Lafitte in the European première of Amy Beach's Cabildo with Opera Eos (now New Voices Theatre); Sam (Trouble in Tahiti) with both RNCM Chamber Opera & the RCS Alexander Gibson Opera School. Arthur also sang in gala concerts as part of Søholm Opera's 2019 'Opera in Unlikely Places' festival on the island of Samsø in Denmark.