Article from “50 Years Of Opera” magazine - January 2000 - By Margaret Davies
When Alastair Miles steps on to the stage of Covent Garden to sing Elmiro in Rossini’s Otello, he will be returning to a role for which he was pinpointed in OPERA in 1987 as ‘the voice of the evening ... the most promising young bass in the country’. He follows this with Frère Laurent in Gounod’s Romeo et Ju/iette, which he has recorded, but he will be singing both roles on stage for the first time. This double Shakespearian package will revive his relationship with the reopened Royal Opera House, though he maintained a link during the closure period by his contribution to the concert performance of Donizetti’s rediscovered opera Elisabetta.
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Article from "Time Out" magazine - September 2002 - by Martin Hoyle
The last two weeks of the world’s biggest music festival are in sight. Sounds in store range from Renaissance Spain (The Cardinall’s Musick, Sept 9) to London premieres from Julian Anderson and Simon Bainbridge via fresh perspectives on staid classics. Among the latter: on Sunday, Britain’s most effortlessly international bass, Alastair Miles, heads the soloists in that old warhorse beloved of the Victorians, ‘Elijah’ —conducted by the most vigorously un-Victorian Kurt Masur.
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