American tenor Charles Workman studied at the Juilliard School. He made his Royal Opera debut in 2002 as Prunier (La rondine) and has since returned for Acis (Acis and Galatea) and Edmundo de Nobile (The Exterminating Angel), a role he created. Engagements elsewhere include Skuratov (From the House of the Dead), Tenor/Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) and the title role in Palestrina for Bayerische Staatsoper, Alwa (Lulu), Laca Klemen (Jenůfa) and Tito (La clemenza di Tito) for La Monnaie, Brussels, Alwa for Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera and Rome Opera, Tenor/Bacchus for Vienna State Opera, Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) and Tito for Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, Alviano (Die Gezeichneten) and Faust (La Damnation de Faust) for Opéra de Lyon, Flamand (Capriccio) and the title role of Der Zwerg for Paris Opera, Boris (Kát’a Kabanová) and Idomeneo for Rome Opera, Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) for Opera Vlaanderen and in Luxembourg, Paul (Die tote Stadt) for Hamburg State Opera, Finn/Bayan (Ruslan and Lyudmila) for the Bolshoi Theatre and Edmund (Reimann’s Lear) and Nobile for the Salzburg Festival. Recent highlights include Herodes (Salome) for Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Walter (Die Passagierin) and Aegist (Elektra) for Bayerische Staatsoper.