Bruce Graham

BRUCE GRAHAM was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1978 he joined the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company with whom he toured extensively,  playing many of the Gilbert and Sullivan  character rôles. Since his spell with the D’Oyly Carte, Bruce has been in much demand throughout the country, appearing with English National Opera and Opera North, as well as in seasons at Coventry, Leicester, Chelmsford, Windsor, Croydon,  and Liverpool.International credits include a highly successful European tour of “My Fair Lady” (playing Zoltan Kapathy), and a return to Gilbert and Sullivan for a lengthy tour of the USA.He received some particularly good notices as Uncle Pumblechook in the national tour of a new musical based on Dickens’ “Great Expectations”.
Bruce’s West End credits include “Camelot” (Apollo Victoria), “Me and My Girl”  (Adelphi), “Follies” (Shaftesbury), “Budgie” (Cambridge), “Phantom of the Opera”  (Her Majesty’s), “She Loves Me” (Savoy), and “Sunset Boulevard” (Adelphi). He is proud to have played the central rôle of Old Deuteronomy in ‘Cats’ both on the national tour and in the West End of London (New London Theatre).
Bruce was a regular contributor to  the “Late Joys” music hall bills at  the late lamented world  famous  Players’  Theatre,  London, where he was also a stalwart of their annual Victorian burlesque pantomimes; and he has had the distinction of appearing at  Bow  Street Magistrate’s Court (as a singer!) in the Covent Garden Festival production of “Trial by Jury”.
On television,  Bruce has been seen in “The Royal Variety Command Performance”, “Night of a Thousand Stars”,  ”The Olivier Awards”, “War Poets”,  and  ”Black  Hearts  in  Battersea”,  as well as in several commercials (most recently for Ford Motors). And recently Bruce made his feature film debut when he took part in a forthcoming British release with the working title ‘Hotel Splendide’, directed by Terence Gross.
After what he feels is far too long a break, Bruce returned to his first love (operetta and the works of Gilbert and Sullivan) with Carl Rosa Opera, with whom he has recently appeared in “The Mikado”, “The Yeomen of the Guard”, “Iolanthe”, “The Pirates of Penzance”, ‘The Gondoliers’, and ‘HMS Pinafore’, as well as in the rôle of Frank in “Die Fledermaus”. He has played Pooh-Bah (“The Mikado”) in Carl Rosa’s record breaking tours of Australia and New Zealand (2001) and the USA and Canada (2004). Recently Bruce has particularly enjoyed playing Calchas in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène (along with yet another Pooh-Bah!) for Opera della Luna. Other recent engagements include a busy schedule of concert work, a return to the International G&S Festival in Derbyshire and a trip to Rome with ‘The Mikado’ (Carl Rosa Company). He scored a great hit in the 2005 University College production of Offenbach’s ‘Whittington’.