Richard Latham studied music at Cambridge and then went on to train at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
His operatic roles to date include Pastore II in “L’Orfeo” (AAM, Barbican); Papageno in “The Magic Flute” (Garsington Opera, West Green House); Mercurio in “Atalanta” (Cambridge Handel Opera) and Corydon in “Fairy Queen” (Bury Court Opera).
On the concert platform Richard has performed Schumann’s “Szenen aus Goethes” Faust with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and Fauré’s “Requiem” with the Philharmonia Chorus and Southbank Sinfonia. He works regularly with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music and appears as a soloist on recordings of JS Bach’s “St John Passion”, music by Christopher Gibbons and, most recently, the “St Matthew Passion” (scheduled release March 2015 on AAM Records). Richard has also recorded solo roles in “L’Orfeo” with the Taverner Consort and Players conducted by Andrew Parrott.
