Meet WNO
Barry Banks
Overview
Barry Banks is from Stoke-on-Trent and trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio. After long associations with English National Opera and The Metropolitan Opera he is now known as a performer of roles by Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti. Banks recently made his debut in Vienna as Norfolk in Amélie Niermeyer's new production of Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra at Theater an der Wien.
Recent engagements: Pirelli Sweeney Todd (Opernhaus Zürich); Duke of Mantua Rigoletto (Portland Opera); Astrologer The Golden Cockerel (Santa Fe Opera)