Jonathan McGovern
Jonathan McGovern is an English baritone singer. Early life and education. McGovern was born in Surrey, England and received professional training at the Royal Academy of Music. As the only child in the family, he enjoyed listening to classical music, especially Sergei Rachmaninoff and singing in choir. He took the stage for the first time at the National Youth Music Theatre and by the age of 12 had his debut at Glyndebourne in "The Ragged Child". Career. In January 2012, McGovern sang Schumann, Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Wigmore Hall and the same year performed as  Yamadori in "Madama Butterfly" at the English National Opera. In 2015, McGovern played the role of Pelléas in James Conway's version of "Pelléas et Mélisande" with the English Touring Opera. Two years later, he played the same character in the same play under a baton of Jac van Steen at the Garsington Opera in Wormsley Park. During the 2018 season, McGovern played as Pelléas in Barrie Kosky's "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Komische Oper Berlin. He also performed in 's "The Magic Flute" under a direction from Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Hamburg State Opera and played a  lead role in Barbora Horáková's "L'Orfeo" at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Spain. In 2018, he had appeared in Michael Boyd's "Don Giovanni" at the Garsington Opera and then reprised his role as Papageno under Kent Nagano and made his debut with the Welsh National Opera as Prince Andrei in Prokofiev's "War and Peace" and Staatstheatre Klagenfurt as Pelléas. When it comes to concerts, McGovern sings in "Dido and Aeneas" at the Concertgebouw under a baton of Christian Curnyn and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège under Hervé Niquet's baton. He also  participated in the Nico Muhly's "The Last Letter" with Britten Sinfonia and recorded songs by Mendelssohn with pianist Malcolm Martineau. In 2020, he is scheduled to play in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro".