Huw Montague Rendall

Montague Rendall’s 2026-27 season sees him add another role to his repertoire: Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra national de Paris. He also performs in two new productions – firstly at the Royal Ballet & Opera in a production by Netia Jones of Così fan tutte, followed by one of his signature roles Pelléas et Mélisande at the Salzburg Festival. Montague Rendall embarks on a recital tour with pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson to promote his second album release with Warner/Erato, Heart of Youth. They perform together at Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Opera Lausanne, the Schwabacher Recital Series at San Francisco Opera, Vocal Arts DC, Carnegie Hall, Oper Frankfurt, Garsington Opera and Edinburgh International Festival. He also presents this recital at Opéra national de Rouen with pianist Hélio Vida and also joins Joseph Middleton for a recital at Wigmore Hall. On the concert platform, Montague Rendall performs Count Le nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Das Paradies und die Peri at Opéra national du Rhin with Antonello Manacorda; L’enfance du Christ with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Georg Enescu Philharmonic; Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Pelléas et Mélisande at Stichting Omroep Muziek with Karina Canellakis; Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; and Requiem pour Ophélie with Raphaël Pichon at Opernhaus Zürich.

Last season began with his return to the Royal Ballet & Opera for David McVicar’s loved production of Die Zauberflöte before he made his debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu as Belcore L’elisir d’amore and then later as Dandini La Cenerentola at Opéra national de Paris. He also appeared as Il Conte Le nozze di Figaro at Wiener Staatsoper and Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra de Monte-Carlo. On the concert platform, Montague Rendall performed Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Raphaël Pichon; Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Joseph Middleton and they were later joined by Louise Alder for a recital at the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds; concert performances of Pelléas et Mélisande with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Hallé Orchestra and Tarmo Peltokovski; and three recitals with pianist Hélio Vida at Opéra national du Rhin, Teatro de Zarzuela and Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris.

Other recent highlights include Il Conte Le nozze di Figaro at Royal Ballet & Opera and Glyndebourne Festival; the title role in Billy Budd at Wiener Staatsoper; Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra national de Paris and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; a European tour with Pygmalion Ensemble and Raphaël Pichon of Bach’s Johannespassion; Eisenstein Die Fledermaus with Staatsoper Hamburg and Les Musiciens du Louvre; his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro; and his first Don Giovanni in concert at Opéra de Rouen. On the concert platform, he performed a solo recital at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and made his debut with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, singing Mahler’s heartbreaking Kindertotenlieder.

Previously Montague Rendall made a series of extraordinary debuts: the title role in Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet in a new production created at Komische Oper Berlin; his company debut at Opéra national de Paris with a double appearance: Papageno Die Zauberflöte and Mercutio in the premiere of Thomas Jolly’s Roméo et Juliette; Papageno in a new production of Die Zauberflöte at Opéra national du Rhin which was also a vehicle for his hugely acclaimed debut at Royal Ballet & Opera and at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Guglielmo Così fan tutte at Staatsoper Hamburg and Glyndebourne; Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at Santa Fe Opera and at Opéra de Rouen Normandie; Malatesta in a critically acclaimed production of Don Pasquale at Glyndebourne Festival; Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra National de Lorraine; and Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Equally at home in concert and recital, he was heard as Christus in a European tour of the Bach Trilogy: The Life of Christ with Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion, which comprised three oratorios: The Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion and The Easter Oratorio; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem together with the Dutch National Opera at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Ned Keene Peter Grimes at the Enescu Festival; a “Mozart Matinee” series with Pichon at the Salzburg Festival; Richard Blackford’s Pietà at the Cadogan Hall with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra; Mendelssohn Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Duruflé Requiem with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra; and many concerts in the UK ranging from solo song recitals to sacred works by Brahms, Handel, Stainer, Fauré, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. A dedicated recitalist, his most recent appearances include a recital at the Opéra de Lille, a recital with Hélio Vida in Nancy and Die Schöne Müllerin with pianist Gary Matthewman for Lancaster Arts.

An alumnus of the Royal College of Music, Montague Rendall trained under the tutorage of Russell Smythe, having previously studied under David Rendall and Philip Doghan. In summer 2016 Montague Rendall was a Jerwood Young Artist with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang the role of Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia, for which he was awarded the much-coveted John Christie Award 2016. The following summer he joined the prestigious Young Artist Programme at the Salzburg Festspiele and was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zürich from 2016 to 2018.