IMG Artists is delighted to welcome bass David Shipley to our roster for general management. He will be represented by Artist Manager Isabella Pitman.
Shipley is a graduate of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His roles for The Royal Opera include Nightwatchman (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Antinoo (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), Zuniga (Carmen), Arthur and Officer III (The Lighthouse), Captain (Eugene Onegin), Sciarrone (Tosca), Guccio (Gianni Schicchi), High Priest of Baal Nabucco, Second Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte), and Dr Grenvil (La Traviata).
Recent operatic highlights include Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Theater Basel), Somnus in Semele (Komische Oper Berlin) , John Pinney, Alexander Morris, Pin-Striped Man in Will Todd’s Migrations (Welsh National Opera), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish Opera); Dr Grenvil in La Traviata (The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Harapha in Samson (The English Concert at London Handel Festival); Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Scottish Opera and his US operatic debut at Houston Grand Opera); Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Festival d’Aix en Provence), amongst others.
Concert highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Mass in C (Al Bustan Festival, Beirut); Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the BBC Proms, Monteverdi’s Vespers and Handel’s Dixit Dominus at the Salzburg Festival (all with the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner); and Tirésias on the London Symphony Orchestra’s critically acclaimed ‘LSO Live’ recording of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Elsewhere, he has performed at venues including Paris’s Salle Pleyel, Barcelona’s L’Auditori, the Kölner Philharmonie, Kings Place, Cadogan Hall, the Barbican, Christ Church Spitalfields, and the Royal Albert Hall, and with ensembles and conductors including the London Symphony Orchestra, The Mozartists, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Mark Elder.
2023/24 season engagements include performances at the Royal Opera House Muscat (Oman), Pietro in Simon Boccanegra for Opera Rara and Timur in Turandot for his debut at Opernhaus Zürich. On the 09 February he stars as ‘Bottom’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Teatro Carlo Felice Genova.
Shipley says, “I’m extremely excited to be joining the fantastic roster at IMGA. I very much look forward to working with Isabella and the team, whose expertise and passion for opera and the classical music industry is unparalleled.”
Isabella Pitman says, ” David is a true bass. I’m really looking forward to working with such a versatile, useful and interesting voice, and an exceptionally good person to top it off.”
