Irish bass Alan Ewing (Second Soldier) has in recent years sung at the Berliner Staatsoper, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Maggio Musicale Florence, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Netherlands Opera, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and in concert at the Salzburger Pfingsten Festspiel, the Lucerne Festival, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Barbican and the Concertgebouw with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Philippe Jordan, Richard Hickox and Daniel Oren. Especially known for his singing of virtuoso Handel roles, heard on award-winning recordings of Acis and Galatea and Giulio Cesare, his work now extends into the mainstream of bass repertory including Osmin for both William Christie (in Strasbourg) and Marc Minkowski, Seneca, Sarastro, Leporello, Heinrich der Vogler, Baron Ochs, Duke Bluebeard and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.