The Apostles, Op. 49, Pt. 2: IV. The BetrayalHallé, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder, Paul Groves, David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt, Sean Boyes, Thomas Kelly, Timothy Langston, Thomas Morss, Adam Player, Stefan Berkieta, Matthew Kellett, Graham McCusker & Daniel Shelvey
ALBUMJames MacMillan: Since it was the day of PreparationBrindley Sherratt, Synergy Vocals & Hebrides Ensemble
ALBUMDonizetti: Les MartyrsDavid Kempster, Brindley Sherratt, Sir Mark Elder, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Joyce El-Khoury & Michael Spyres
ALBUMVerdi: MacbethEdward Gardner, English National Opera Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Brindley Sherratt, Latonia Moore, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Gwyn Hughes Jones & Ben Johnson
ALBUMOffenbach: FantasioRussell Braun, Brindley Sherratt, Neal Davies, Sir Mark Elder, Dame Sarah Connolly, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Brenda Rae & Robert Murray
ALBUMHandel: SerseChristian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Anna Stéphany, David Daniels, Hilary Summers, Brindley Sherratt, Rosemary Joshua & Joélle Harvey
ALBUMBeethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72Andrew Kennedy, Lisa Milne, Brindley Sherratt, Anja Kampe, Peter Coleman-Wright, Nathan Vale, Anthony Cleverton, Torsten Kerl, Henry Waddington, Sir Mark Elder, London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus
ALBUMElgar: The Apostles, Op. 49Hallé, Sir Mark Elder, Rebecca Evans, Alice Coote, Paul Groves, Jacques Imbrailo, David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt, Sean Boyes, Thomas Kelly, Timothy Langston, Thomas Morss, Adam Player, Stefan Berkieta, Matthew Kellett, Graham McCusker, Daniel Shelvey, Hallé Choir & Hallé Youth Choir
ALBUMDonizetti: Maria di RohanChristopher Purves, Brindley Sherratt, Graeme Broadbent, Sir Mark Elder, Enkelejda Shkosa, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, José Bros, Krassimira Stoyanova & Loïc Félix
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 5 - BWV 45, 46, 101, 102, 136, 178Brindley Sherratt, Christoph Genz, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Robin Tyson, John Eliot Gardiner, Gotthold Schwarz, Daniel Taylor & Joanne Lunn
Bass Brindley Sherratt has performed a variety of roles, from Handel to Adams, on stage and recordings. During the later part of his career, he has performed increasingly often outside Britain.
Sherratt was born in 1965 in Britain's Lancashire region. Several members of his family were strong singers. He attended the Royal Academy of Music, beginning as a trumpeter but switching to voice along the way, and he graduated in 1985 with a voice degree as a bass-baritone. He earned the Mario Grisi, Robert Radford, and Gilbert Betjamin Prizes for operatic and vocal recital performances. Sherratt soon made his debut with the Welsh National Opera as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni and went on to appear at the Grange Park Opera as Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and as Colline in Puccini's La bohème and as the Sprecher in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Wexford International Opera Festival, among other British venues. He made his recording debut in 2002 on a recording of a pair of Haydn masses with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. The first in a long series of operatic recordings by Sherratt came in 2003 on the Opera Rara label with Il Salotto, Vol. 6: La Partenza.
Sherratt has made multiple appearances at many major English venues, including the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, and the BBC Proms. He has often been heard at festivals as a recitalist, and his orchestral credits include appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra under conductor Andrew Davis, the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. As his career developed, he was increasingly often been heard abroad, with appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (as Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role he has performed more than 100 times), the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (in Wagner's Die Walküre), and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Louis Langrée. As a recitalist, Sherratt has often worked with pianist Julius Drake, and the pair released the album Fear No More on the Delphian label in 2024. By that time, his recording catalog comprised more than 25 albums, with repertory ranging from Handel operas to John Adams' Doctor Atomic, in which he appeared on a 2018 BBC Symphony Orchestra recording. Sherratt serves as a visiting professor at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music. ~ James Manheim