“Baritone Rory Musgrave, as the mayor of Youghal, expresses the conflicted self of the good-hearted pragmatist.”

Katy Hayes, Independent.ie

Rory Musgrave, Baritone – The Mayor of Youghal, Vagabones – OCI, 2019 – Photo credit Frances Marshall
Rory Musgrave, Baritone – Photo credit Frances Marshall

Opera repertoire


J. Adams
Richard Nixon* Nixon in China

G. Bizet
Le PodestatLe Docteur Miracle

B. Britten
Sid Albert Herring
Junius The Rape of Lucretia

E. Cranitch
Gabriel Conroy The Dead

F. David
Magnus Herculanum

R. Deane
Mayor of Youghal Vagabones

G. Donizetti
Belcore L’Elisir d’Amore

E. Wolf-Ferrari
Gil Susanna’s Secret

D. Fujikura
Young Kelvin Solaris

K. Goldmark
Camillo Ein Wintermarchen

G.F. Handel
Priest, Athamus Semele

L. Janáček
Harasta The Cunning Little Vixen

T. Lane
Roommate Flätpäck

F. Lehár
St. Brioche The Merry Widow

P. Mascagni
McGregor*/Bell Guglielmo Ratcliff

G.C. Menotti
Ben The Telephone

C. Monteverdi
Eumete The Return of Ulysses

W.A. Mozart
Guglielmo Così fan tutte
Leporello Don Giovanni

G.B. Pergolesi
Uberto La Serva Padrona

G. Puccini
Marco Gianni Schicci
Schaunard La Bohème

G. Rossini
Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri

R. Strauss
2nd Soldier/Namaan Salome

J. Strauss II
Dr. Falke Die Fledermaus

A. Sullivan
Sargeant Bouncer Cox and Box

G. Verdi
Baron Duphol La Traviata

W. Walton
Smirnov/Luka The Bear

* Cover role

Rory Musgrave, Baritone – NCH Concert – Photo credit Frances Marshall

Oratorio repertoire


J.S. Bach
St. Matthew Passion
St John Passion
Weinachts-Oratorium
Mass in B Minor
Kantate Nr. 82 – Ich habe genug

T. Dubois
Seven Last Words

G. Fauré
Requiem

G.F. Handel
Messiah
Samson
Missa in tempore belli/Paukenmesse

F. Medelssohn
Elijah
Paulus

W.A. Mozart
Requiem

C. Orff
Carmina Burana

G. Rossini
Pettite Messe Solennelle

Concert repertoire


L. Bernstein
To What You Said

J. Brahms
Op. 52 & 65 Liebeslieder Walzer

A. Copland
Old American Songs

C. Debussy
Le promenoir des deux amants: 1,2,3

H. Duparc
L’Invitation au voyage
Phydilé

G. Finzi
Earth and Air and Rain
Let us garlands bring

Gabriel Fauré
L’horizon chimérique 

C. Ives
He Is There!

C. Loewe
Erlkönig
Herr Oluf

G. Mahler
Revelge
Lob des hohen Verstandes
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

M. Ravel
Don Quichotte
  à Dulcinée

N. Rorem
Look Down, Fair Moon

F. Schubert
Nacht und Träume
Der Erlkönig
An die Musik

C. Schumann
Sechs Lieder Op. 13

P.I. Tchaikovsky
Heroism
None but the lonely heart
The gentle stars shone for us

K. Weill
Dirge for Two Veterans
Hello There
Buddy in the Night Shift

R. Vaughn Williams
Songs of Travel

H. Wolf
Der Tambour
Führ mich, Kind, nach Bethlehem
Ach, wie lang die Seele schlummert!
Gebet
Der Rattenfänger
Sterb’ich, so hüllt in Blumen meine Glieder