Grant Doyle combines Macbeth’s monstrous pessimism, his courage and agonising moments of self-knowledge with disarming directness. This is a commanding performance, and Doyle has the vocal resources and dark Italianate inscrutability to give the role full measure.
Richard Fairman
The Financial Times ****
Australian-born British baritone Grant Doyle studied at the University of Adelaide and the Royal College of Music, later joining the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has been a principal artist with the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Real Madrid, Komische Oper Berlin, Opera Holland Park, Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Queensland, and the State Opera of South Australia. He has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, CBSO, the Hallé, and the Copenhagen Philharmonic.
Recent engagements include his performances as La Rocca in Un giorno di Regno at Garsington Opera and as Sam in the Royal Opera’s production of Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place. He has also debuted as Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville for Nevill Holt Opera. Other recent roles include the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen for Opera Holland Park, as well as Dr. Bartolo and Tonio in Pagliacci for West Green Opera.
Doyle’s declamatory way with the opening scenes gives way to a fierce, expressive lyricism as guilt and isolation begin to corrode both Macbeth’s mind and his sense of his own integrity…
Tim Ashley
The Guardian ****
The best of the principals is Grant Doyle’s expertly crafted Don Magnifico. He alone maintains a three-dimensional character – a thoroughly dislikeable one, but he’s meant to be – thus fulfilling the old dictum that comedy is a serious business; the reason Doyle is funny is that he plays the wicked stepfather for real. Spot-on diction, too.
George Hall
The Stage Jun 23, 2023
Doyle is simply the class act of the evening. His own baritone is immensely rich and secure, and he captures the humorous and sinister aspects of the character in equal measure
Sam Smith
musicOMH ****
