Bass Conall O’Neill graduated from the Royal College of Music, London where he was an RCM Award Holder supported by a Herbert Howells & Thomas Fielden Scholarship, Johnson Scholarship and a Pauline Hartley Award. Previously, Conall studied at Imperial College London from which he graduated with a BSc in Biology.
Roles Conall has sung for HGO include Colline (La bohème), Adonis (Venus and Adonis), Badger/ Priest (The Cunning Little Vixen). Other roles have included Raimondo (Lucia di Lamermoor), Mr Flint (Billy Budd), Davenaut (Der Vampyr), Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Theseus (A Midsummer’s Night Dream) and Ford in Sir John in Love in an Opera Holland Park/ British Youth Opera co-production. Conall has been a young artist with Wexford Festival Opera in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons, where he sang Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Pistola in Falstaff, (broadcast by RTÈ) and L’Oste in Edmea. He also performed in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music conducted by John Wilson for a Gala at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the now King Charles III.
Throughout his career and studies, Conall has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Sir Thomas Allen, Gregory Kunde, Ernesto Palacio, Ermonela Jaho, Brindley Sherratt and Matthew Rose, amongst others.