“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

Recent and Upcoming Engagements


Puccini
– Gianni Schicchi, Gianni Schicchi (Opernfestspiel Heidenheim – July ‘25)

Handel
– Fenice, Deidamia (Wexford Festival Opera, Autumn ’25, & Göttingen International Händel Festival, Summer ‘26)
– Bass Soloist, Messiah (November ’25)

Britten
– Bottom, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Wexford Festival Opera – Autumn ‘25)
– Junius, The Rape of Lucretia (Teatro Petruzzelli Bari – April ’25)

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

Opera repertoire


Bizet
– Le Podestat, Doctor Miracle (Wexford Festival Opera)

Blow
– Adonis, Venus and Adonis (Opera Collective Ireland)

Britten
– Junius, The Rape of Lucretia (Teatro Petruzzelli, Opera Collective Ireland)
– Sid, Albert Herring (RIAM)

Bremner, David
– Man, Slow Recognition (Béal)

Cranitch, Ellen
– Gabriel Conroy, The Dead (The Performance Corporation)

David, Félicien
– Magnus, Herculanum (Wexford Festival)

Deane, Raymond
– Mayor of Youghal, Vagabones (Opera Collective Ireland)

Donizetti
– Belcore, L’Elisir d’Amore (Blackwater Valley)
– Dulcamara (Eng), L’Elisir d’Amore (Wexford Festival)

Erlanger
– Gran Duc Gregoriev, L’Aube Rouge (Wexford Festival)

Fugikura, Dai
– Young Kelvin, Solaris (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)

Goldmark
– Camillo, Ein Wintermarchen (Wexford Festival)

Halévy
– Alonso, Re di Napoli, La Tempesta (Wexford Festival)

Handel
– Athamas, Semele (RIAM)
– High Priest, Semele (RIAM)

Lehar
– St. Brioche, The Merry Widow (Cork Opera House)

Leoncavallo
– Silvio, Pagliacci (Cork Opera House)

Mascagni
– Dottore Graziano, Le Maschere (Wexford Festival)
– McGregor (Cover), Guglielmo Ratcliff (Wexford Festival)
– Bell, Guglielmo Ratcliff (Wexford Festival)

Menotti
– Ben, The Telephone (RIAM)

Monteverdi
– Eumete, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Opera Collective Ireland)

Mozart
– Guglielmo, Cosi fan Tutte (Cork Opera House)

Offenbach
– The Four Devils/Villains, Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Lithuanian National Opera)

Puccini
– Gianni Schicchi (It. & Eng.), Gianni Schicchi (Heidenheim, Wexford Festival)
– Marco, Gianni Schicchi (Blackwater Valley, Opera in the Open)
– Marcello, La Bohème (Cork Opera House)
– Schaunard, La Bohème (Lyric Opera, Opera in the Open, Opera Theatre Company)

Purcell
– Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas (Opera Collective Ireland)

Rossini
– Taddeo, L’Italiana in Algeri (Blackwater Valley)

Strauss (Johann)
– Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus (Cagliari, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar)

Strauss (Richard)
– 2nd Soldier, Salome (Northern Ireland Opera)

Synott
– Sextus, What Happened to Lucrece (Wexford Festival Opera)

Tchaikovsky
– Evgeny Onegin, Evgeny Onegin (Opera Holland Park)

Todd (Will)
– White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland (Opera Collective Ireland)

Verdi
– Germont, La Traviata (Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Cork Opera House)
– Baron Duphol, La Traviata (Lyric Opera)

Walton
– Smirnov, The Bear (Wexford Festival)

Wolf-Ferrari
– Count Gil, Susanna’s Secret (Opera Theatre Company)

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

Concert/Oratorio repertoire


Bach
– Bass soloist, St John’s Passion
– Bass soloist, St Matthew’s Passion
– Cantata 82: “Ich habe genug”

Brahms
– Baritone Soloist, Liebeslieder Walzer (Various)

Handel
– Bass Soloist, Messiah (Various)

Haydn
– Bass Soloist, Missa in tempore belli

Mozart
– Mass in C minor

Ravel
– Don Quichotte e Dulcinée (RTE Concert Orchestra)

Orff
– Baritone Soloist, Carmina Burana