Padmore has appeared in Bach's
St Matthew and
St John Passions with the
Berlin Philharmonic and
Sir Simon Rattle, staged by
Peter Sellars, including Berlin, Salzburg, New York and the
BBC Proms. In the opera house, Padmore has worked with directors
Peter Brook, Katie Mitchell, Mark Morris and Deborah Warner. He performed leading roles such as in Harrison Birtwistle's
The Corridor and
The Cure at the
Aldeburgh Festival and in London. He appeared in Handel's
Jephtha for
Welsh National Opera and
English National Opera, and as Captain Vere in Britten's
Billy Budd. He performed as the
Evangelist in a scenic version of the
St Matthew Passion for the
Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He also played Peter Quint in an acclaimed
BBC TV production of Britten's
The Turn of the Screw and recorded the title role of Mozart's
La Clemenza di Tito with conductor
René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi. Padmore appeared as Third Angel/John in George Benjamin's
Written on Skin with the
Royal Opera House in 2017. In concert, he has performed with the world's leading orchestras including the Munich Radio, Berlin, Vienna, New York and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston and London Symphony Orchestras and the
Philharmonia. Padmore has given recitals worldwide. He appears frequently at
Wigmore Hall, London where he first sang all three Schubert song cycles in May 2008, and was their artist in residence in the 2009/10 season. ==Recordings==