The American tenor TOM RANDLE (Joe DiMaggio) studied orchestra conducting and composition before concentrating on his singing studies. His opera repertoire includes roles like Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (English National Opera, Hamburg, Berlin, Glyndebourne), Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, Lausanne, Bordeaux), title roles in Béatrice et Bénédict (Welsh National Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande (Paris, London), Idomeneo (Scottish Opera, Brussels) and in Hasse’s Solimano (Innsbrucker Festwochen, Berlin), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Geneva, Brussels), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Munich, Los Angeles), Achilles in King Priam (ENO, Nederlandse Reisopera), Gérald in Lakmé (Australia), Oberon in The Fairy Queen (Aix-en-Provence), Joe in Carmen Jones (Washington) and Alfredo in La traviata (Opera North). He has previously sung Maler in Lulu (Brussels) and Števa Buryja in Jenůfa (Opéra de Lille), Aegist in Elektra (Aix-en-Provence, La Scala Milan) and Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (London). Tom Randle has performed in film recordings of The Death of Klinghoffer and Die Zauberflöte (directed by Kenneth Branagh). With Dutch National Opera, he has sung in Symposion, Oedipus Rex & Psalmensymfonie, The Rake’s Progress, Lulu, Die Soldaten, Doctor Atomic, The Bassarids and Saint François d’Assise.