Edmund Danon

Just lurking about. - Junius Britten - The Rape of Lucretia - Dir: Robin Norton-Hale Cond: Gerry Cornelius & @otise_lineham Design: @eleanorbulldesign Lighting: @jamieplatt_lighting - "Edmund Danon, Kieran Rayner and Trevor Eliot Bowes each carried a separate gravitas ... each with a secure and stirring depth to their voice ... As the stage grieves Danon creates a striking picture of a call to further war and violence." - Gramophone ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "ETO is a fine ambassador for Britten's problem child ... Edmund Danon as the manipulative Junius uses the assault for his own political ends." - The Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The production lives in the dramatic detail; the sparring between Kieran Rayner's nervy, erratic Tarquinius and Edmund Danon's petulant Junius ... Norton-Hale mines the tensions." - The Stage ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Edmund Danon made Junius something of a focus ... with chilling plausibility." - Planet Hugill "Edmund Danon made a lot more than usual of the key role of Junius." - Plays to See ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Junius (Edmund Danon) is Iago and Mark Anthony rolled into one" - Stage Talk - 📷 @richard_h_smith

The teenage Ed who watched Amadeus, and became completely obsessed with the finale of Don G was a pretty happy boy for this one. - Don Giovanni Mozart - Don Giovanni - Dir: @johnleowilkie Cond: @charlottepoliti Design: @cecicalf Lighting: @jakewiltshireld - This was a role I never thought the casting gods would chuck my way. Thank you to @guyverrallwithers for trusting me with your last dance at the place you founded. To play opposite my man @emyrwyn123 was a slice of luck that just doesn't come up in this career. And @johnleowilkie made a role suffocated by convention and cliché utterly human and new. - "Edmund Danon was a remarkably sinister Giovanni - a real predator, with a devilish vocal swagger" - The Spectator "Edmund Danon, a busy baritone who catches the eye in roles great and small, was a devil-may-care Don Giovanni. His forthright voice an effective counterweight to the sardonic delivery of Emyr Wyn Jones ... Every delicious word cut through the evening sky." - Opera Magazine - 📷 @julianguideraphotography 📷 Graham Turner

"I have conducted the song of redemption, such as he withheld from me." - Hermann Levi Dorman - Wahnfried - Dir: @pollystellakatharineabram Cond: Justin Brown Design: @max.johns.design & @anishafields - "Levi is sympathetically portrayed, embracing the terrible and ever-present contradictions, perhaps an alter-ego for Dorman" - The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "With his firm baritone, Edmund Danon brings out all the pathos in Levi's assertion that he turned his back on his own people to support Wagner" - musicOMH ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Equally mesmerising is Edmund Danon as Hermann Levi" - The Stage ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Edmund Danon's dark bass-baritone led gravitas to Levi, the one sympathetic character in the whole opera" - Bachtrack - 📷 - @matthewwilliamsellis

Another wonderful review! We’re thrilled to share a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rave for Wahnfried from @musicomh : “A host of brilliant touches... superbly conducted by Justin Brown.” This powerful production marks Longborough Festival Opera’s bold debut of Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult — and it’s already making waves. 🎭 Meet the extraordinary cast behind this gripping world of myth, music, and ideology: Mark Le Brocq as Houston Stewart Chamberlain Susan Bullock CBE as Cosima Wagner @susan.bullock.71 Meeta Raval as Anna Chamberlain and Eva Wagner @meeta_raval Oskar McCarthy as Wagner-Damon (Richard Wagner) @oskarmccarthy Edmund Danon as Hermann Levi @edanon Andrew Watts as Siegfried Wagner @mrandrewwattssings Alexandra Lowe as Isolde Wagner and Winifred Wagner @alexlowesoprano Adrian Dwyer as The Master’s Disciple (Hitler) @unheroictenor Antoin Herrera-López Kessel as Kaiser Wilhelm II and Mikhail Bakunin @hlkessel1987 The acrobat Tamzen Moulding @tamzenmoulding Plus a phenomenal ensemble and the Longborough Community Chorus 🎶 Conducted by Justin Brown @justbrown2020 , Wahnfried explores the roots of the Wagner cult with vision, complexity, and emotional power. 🎨 Directed by Polly Graham @pollystellakatharineabram 🌟 Designers: Max Johns @max.johns.design , Anisha Fields @anishafields , Alys Whitehead, Peter Small 💫 Movement: Adi Gortler 🎶 Chorus: James Ham, Will Sharma, Christopher Stark 🎹 Répétiteur: Thomas Ang 📖 Dramaturg: Emma Jude Harris 🗓️ Only three performances left: 10, 12, and 14 June 🎟️ Don’t miss your chance to see this bold, brilliant performance. 📣 Part of our 2025 season — more exciting announcements coming soon! #Wahnfried #longboroughfestivalopera #wagner #opera

Snowmaiden is such an underrated banger, especially when sung by this lot. - Mizgir Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snowmaiden - Dir: @fuchs.o Cond: @hannahbananaquinn & @erikagundesen Design: @eleanorbulldesign - "Edmund Danon's warm baritonal presentation of Mizgir was alluring, yet he also had the right vicious snarl" - Opera Today "From the baritone of Danon's Mizgir we get maybe more noble polish than this strutting show-off deserves" - The Arts Desk "Edmund Danon's darker portrayal of Mizgir, keenly alert to his mood swings and their larger import, was equally successful" - Seen and Heard "Edmund Danon is suitably volatile as Mizgir" - The Times "Edmund Danon is suave and snarling as Mizgir" - The Guardian "With his persuasive baritone, Edmund Danon shows Mizgir's determination to win Snowmaiden is just as strong as his infatuation" - musicOMH - 📷 @richard_h_smith 📷 @craigfullerphotography 📷 @campsnapcamera

Have you checked out our #Opera #Movie yet? #Subscribe to the Royal Ballet and Opera streaming service to see our Linbury Double Bill of Les Larmes de Couteau/A Full Moon in March 🔪🌕 ...and more amazing operas, ballets and insights available on the platform! Link to FULL MOVIE available on my Linktree in bio! What a wonderful throwback to this springs' wonderful project with a cast and crew to remember: @vakamamakia @edanon @haltwhogoesthere @eleanorjoyburke @harriet_taylor @chibbs @saritapiotrowski @annareid.design @sfreeburn @weggypu @edwardreeveconductor @imogensmartsteelmua It's been quite a journey which is now one of many cool menories I go back to ❤️ So grateful to all these people and the work! Check it out yourself and let me know what you think!

Typecast again: Satan & the Swineherd at the Linbury. - Martinu - Larmes de Couteau Harbison - Full Moon in March - Dir: @eleanorjoyburke & @harriet_taylor Cond: @edwardreeveconductor Design: @annareid.design @brittensinfonia1 - "Danon presents a double tour-de-force as Satan and the Swineherd" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Stage "The singers excelled in both shows" "Edmund Danon pulled off both slapstick physical comedy and an impassioned quasi-mad scene" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Guardian "Edmund Danon played Satan with a supple physicality tinged with flashes of loucheness, viciousness and cunning - just right." - Opera Today "Leering ... Taunting ... Tramp-like" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Times 😌 "With his fine dramatic baritone and sinuous physicality, it is Edmund Danon ... who steals the show in both operas" - London Unnatached - 📷 @camilla_greenwell

The consistency of anarchic waves... - Last Days @oliver_leith & @mattcopson - Dir: @anna_morrissey_movement & @mattcopson Cond: Thomas Ades & @woonaomiwoo @gbsrduo & the LA Phil new music ensemble - Huge love to @dubfrosty and his team at the @laphil for bringing this show over. - 📷 Photos by Farah Sosa @farahstop , provided courtesy of the LA Phil.

It's been a while but bits of this are still pinging around in my head. Dream team of humans. - Dandini Rossini - La Cenerentola - Dir @jenny__ogilvie Cond @woonaomiwoo & James Ham - "Edmund Danon steals most of his scenes as Dandini" - The Guardian "Edmund Danon's assured valet Dandini amuses in his flirtation" - The Times "Edmund Danon was bursting with easeful roguishness as Dandini" - Opera Today "Edmund Danon offered the right sort of braggadocio as Dandini ... and sang well too." - Opera Magazine

Another summer in one of my favourite places. - Zuniga Bizet - Carmen - Dir - @morrissey_anna Cond - Bertie Baigent - "As the police captain Zuniga, Edmund Danon was properly menacing" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Stage

@rhianxhughes is class. - #headshots #portrait #opera #baritone

You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties. - Last Days @oliver_leith & @mattcopson Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre Dir @morrissey_anna Cond @jackfrsheen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Independent ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - FT ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Evening Standard ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Stage