Baritone Oskar McCarthy’s operatic roles include Ruggiero La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Longborough Festival Opera); Giorgio The Gondoliers (Scottish Opera); Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte and Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore (Waterperry Opera Festival); Simon Hughes in Robert Reid Allan’s Bermondsey, 1983 and He in Madeline Dring’s Cupboard Love (Tête-à-Tête Festival); and Adam Paradise Lost (Shipwright). He has performed Edmund in Shakespeare’s King Lear at The Grange Festival, Robert Schumann in Re: Sound Music Theatre’s acclaimed play-with-music Duet at the Oxford Lieder Festival and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King with Red Note Ensemble.
Oskar is currently a Britten Pears Young Artist on the inaugural VOICEBOX course for singers specialising in contemporary vocal performance, led by Juliet Fraser. He is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Opera School and the University of Cambridge, and has studied Lecoq technique, fooling, improvisation, and mime at the International School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime in Paris.