Randall Scotting

Colorado native, countertenor Randall Scotting, is acknowledged for a “broad spectrum of colours and great variety of expressive nuance” (Opernwelt).  He is consistently recognized for winning over audiences with his stunning vocal beauty, stylish choices, and charismatic stage presence. Randall received a Performer’s Certificate from CU in 2008 and while in Boulder he sang in Gluck’s Orfeo, Handel’s Semele, and Strauss’ Der Fledermaus, as well as in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Opera Colorado, and in staged performances of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King at the ATLAS Black Box theatre.  Then, as a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Randall performed folk and contemporary music that was largely focused on the works of Ligeti.

Now, Randall is becoming a sought-after artist by the world’s most esteemed opera houses. Last autumn, he made a spectacular debut at London’s Royal Opera House in Britten’s Death in Venice, singing to sold-out audiences at Covent Garden as well as for a BBC radio broadcast.  He then joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover for Handel’s Agrippina.  Additionally trained at London’s Royal College of Music and the Juilliard Opera Center, Randall has previously worked with many major American and European orchestras and opera houses, including Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Italy’s Festival dei due mondi in Spoleto, Boston Baroque, The Bath International Music Festival (UK), and the Göttingen Handel Festival, among others.

In 2021 he returns to Seattle Opera for Flight by British composer Jonathan Dove and a solo recital, he sings the title role in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo with West Edge Opera in California, and he records two albums: a seventeenth-century song project with renowned lutenist Stephen Stubbs, and castrato arias with England’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.