Canadian bass-baritone Robert Gleadow continues to make his mark on operatic and concert stages around the world since his graduation from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio. Robert’s performances at Houston Grand Opera as Talbot in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda alongside Joyce DiDonato and under the baton of Patrick Summers were characterized as “never lacking conviction or genuine concern” and it was noted that “his plangent bass rang out with a sonic boom”. 

This season, Robert will be back at Opera Royal de Versailles in the role of Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni. He will perform as Gugliemo in Così Fan Tutte at Opera de Lausanne and portrait the role of Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at Opera de Marseille.

In the 2022/2023 season, Robert reprised his roles in the Da Ponte trilogy with Les Musiciens du Louvre in Ravenna and Versailles, and performed the role of Pacha in La Caravane du Caire with Opéra de Versailles. He also performed the role of Pacha in La Caravane du Caire with Le Concert Spirituel at Opéra de Versailles.

In recent seasons, Robert sang the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, at Opéra de Lausanne and at L’Opéra royal de Versailles; Figaro/Guglielmo/Leporello in performances of Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy at Gran Teatre del Liceu and Opéra national de Bordeaux; and the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with Les Musiciens du Louvre in Saint-Jean-d’Acre, Beaune and Santander.

Robert’s operatic highlights include performances with Theater Basel in the title role of Don Giovanni; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro at Oper Köln, Theater an der Wien, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Opéra de Montréal and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Leporello Don Giovanni at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Glyndebourne on Tour; Guglielmo Così fan tutte at Glyndebourne Festival Opera; and the title role in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.  Other roles include Angelotti Tosca with Houston Grand Opera; Colline La Bohème with Dallas Opera and Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile; Sprecher Die Zauberflöte; Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Talbot Maria Stuarda; and Truffaldino in John Cox’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos.

Notable appearances on the concert stage include a performance in Paris alongside Natalie Dessay in J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a European tour with the Orchestre d’Astrée under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm, St. Matthew Passion and Mozart’s  Mass in C-minor with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder, the Mozart Requiem with both the Ensemble Mattheus conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance in the star-studded gala celebrating the inauguration of the new hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

On recording, Gleadow can be heard as Lorenzo in Deutsche Grammophon’s Capuleti e Montecchi with Anna Netrebko.