Other appearances have included Colline La bohème and Masetto Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera) Mr Flint Billy Budd, Quinault Adriana Lecouvreur and Zuniga Carmen (Royal Opera) Escamillo Carmen, Masetto Don Giovanni, Mr Flint and Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia (Glyndebourne) Mr Flint and Raleigh Gloriana (Madrid’s Teatro Réal) Cadmus & Somnus Semele (Garsington Opera) Le Duc Roméo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival) Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia (Grange Festival) Nilakantha Lakmé (Opera Holland Park) Animal Tamer & Athlete Lulu, Basilio The Barber of Seville, Colline, Roy Disney The Perfect American and Bernardino Benvenuto Cellini (English National Opera) and Leporello Don Giovanni, Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo and Sparafucile Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera). Recent highlights on the opera stage include Fasolt in a new production of Das Rheingold for Opernhaus Zürich Der Sprecher Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Opera Masetto Don Giovanni and Colline La boheme for the Metropolitan Opera, Colline for the Royal Opera, Mr Flint Billy Budd for the Royal Opera and Madrid’s Teatro Real, Animal Trainer/Athlete Lulu for the English National Opera and Escamillo Carmen for the Glyndebourne Festival.
Highlights in the 2022/23 season include Sir Walter Raleigh Gloriana for ENO and Capulet in a new production of Romeo et Juliette for Opernhaus Zürich. David Soar was born in Nottinghamshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio.