Repetoire

Nominated for two Grammy awards and three Canadian Juno awards, Westman has recorded for Decca, Opera Rara, CBC and BBC. Though widely regarded as an ideal exponent of the Verdi baritone roles, he has also been hailed for leading roles in the works of Puccini, Massenet, Donizetti, Janaček, Bizet, Britten and Mozart for many of the principal opera houses in North America and Europe including the Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vancouver Opera, English National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, the Dallas Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Wexford Festival (Ireland), the opera houses of Graz, Cologne and many more!

Opera

  • Hamlet, Hamlet; Gravedigger

  • Vanessa, The Old Doctor

  • I Puritani, Sir Ricardo Forth

    I Pirata, Ernesto

  • Béatrice et Bénédict, Claudio

  • Carmen, Escamillio; Morales

    Les pêcheurs de perles. Zuniga

  • Inventor; title role Sandy Keith

  • Albert Herring, Sid

    Peter Grimes, Balstrode; Ned Keene

    Billy bud, Billy Bud ; Redburn

    Midsummer Nights Dream, Demetrius

    Gloriana, Lord Mountjoy

    Rape of Lucretia, Tarquinius

    War Requiem, German soldier

  • La Calisto, Endimione; Giove; Silvano

  • The Ghost of Versailles, Beaumarchais; Figaro

  • Margaret Gardener, Edward Gaines

  • Lakmé, Frédéric

  • Lucia di Lammermoor, Enrico

    L’elixir d’amore, Belcore

    Don Pasquale, Dr. Malatesta

    Maria Stuarda, William Cecil

    Imelda de' Lambertazzi, Bonifacio Geremei

    L'assedio di Calais, Eustachio

    Maria Di Rohan, Enrico

    Roberto Devereux, Duke of Nottingham

    La Favorita, Alphonse

    Maria di Rudenz, Corrado

  • Iolanthe, Stephon

    H.M.S. Pinafore, Captain Corcoran

    The Pirates of Penzance, Major General Stanley; Pirate King

  • Faust, Valentin

    Romeo et Juliette, Mercutio

  • Acis and Galatea, Polyphemus

  • Hansel and Gretel, Father; Sandman

  • Louis Riel, Sir John A McDonald

    A Midsummer nights Dream, several roles

  • The Cunning Little Vixon, Forester

    The Makropulos Affair , Baron Jaroslav

  • Silent Night, Lieutenant Gordon

  • Die tote Stadt, Frank

  • The Merry Widow, Count Danilo

  • Pagliacci, Tonio; Silvio

  • Cavalleria rusticana, Alfio

  • Thais, Athanael

    Manon, Lescaut: Monsieur de Brétigny

    Le Cid, Saint Jacques

    Louise, Philosopher

  • Amahl and the night visitors, Amahl

    The Consul, John Sorel

    The Medium, Mr Gobineau

  • The Ballad of Baby Doe, Horace Tabor

  • Magic Flute, Papageno

    Marriage of Figaro, Figaro, Il Conte, Antonio

    Così fan tutte, Gulglielmo

    L'oca del Cairo, Chichibio

  • Tales of Offman, Lindorf; Coppélius; Miracle; Dapertutto

  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski;

  • L'amour des trois oranges, Leandro

  • Dialogues des Carmélites, Marquis de la Force; an Officer, Footman

    Les Mamelles de Tirésias, The Father, The Son

  • Madame Butterfly, Sharpless (over 100 performances)

    La Boheme, Marcello (over 80 performances) Schaunard.

    Tosca, Scarpia

    Ghianni Schicchi

    Turandot, Ping

    La Facuilla Del West, Jack Rance

    Manon Lescaut, Lescaut

    Edgar, Frank

  • Dido and Aeneas, Aeneas

    The Ferry Queen, Sleep; Corydon; Winter; Hymen

  • Corrado D’Altamura; Corrado

  • The Barber of Seville, Barbiere

    La Cenerentola, Dandini

    L'italiana in Algeri, Taddeo

    Mosè in Egitto , Mosè

  • Die Fledermaus, Eisenstein; Falke; Frank

    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ford

  • Solome, Jochanaan; Nazarene

    Ariadne auf Naxos; Harlequin

    Intermezzo, Robert Storch

    Capriccio, The Count

    Die Liebe der Danae, Jupiter

  • Oedipus Rex, Messenger

  • Eugene Onegin, Eugene Onegin

    The Queen of Spades, Prince Yeletsky

  • Rigoletto, Rigoletto

    La Traviata, Germont (250 performances) Baron; Marquis.

    Un giorno di regno, Belfiore

    Giovanna d'Arco, Giacomo

    Macbeth, Macbeth

    Luisa Miller, Miller

    I’ll Trovatore, Conte Di Luna

    Simon Boccanegra. Simon Boccanegra; Paola Albiani

    Un ballo in maschera; Renato; Silvano

    Don Carlo, Rodrigo Marquis Di Posa

    Falstaff, Ford

    Nabucco, Nabucco

    Les vêpres siciliennes, Montfort

  • Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Emperor Überall

  • Sir John in Love. Sir John Falstaff

  • Tannhausser, Wolfram

  • LiKeur, Riel’s Heart of the North, Louis Riel

Concert

  • St. John’s passion

    Easter Oratorio

    St Mathews passion

    Christmas Oratorio

    Many Cantatas

    Magnificat

  • Dover Beach

  • Canadian songs (St. John’s girl)

  • 9th symphony

  • Damnation if Faust

    L’enfants du Christ

  • The Snowman

  • Requiem

    Liebeslieder Waltzes

  • War Requiem

    Canticles

  • Jephte

  • Te deum

    Messa Di Minuit

    Caecilia, Virgo et Martyr

    Missa Assumpta est Maria

  • Old American songs

  • Requiem

  • Stabat Mater

  • Light of Life

    Dream of Gerontias

    King Olaf

  • The House Stands Not Far Apart

  • Requiem

    Five Mystical song

    Handel

    Esther

    Alexander’s feast

    Israel in Egypt

    Messiah

    Semele

    Judas Maccabaeus

    Acis and Galatea

    Mahler

    4th symphony

    8th symphony

  • Let Us Garlands Bring

  • Les Béatitudes

  • Seven Last Words of Christ

    Nelson Mass

  • Golden Harvest

  • Celtic Mass

  • In Terra Pax

  • St. Paul

    Elijah

  • Requiem

  • Carmina Burana

  • Messa Di Gloria

  • Fairy Queen

  • Don Quicotte

  • Oratorio de Noël

  • La passione di Gesù Cristo

  • Ordipus rex

  • Prodigal Son

  • Les Sept Paroles du Christ

  • A child of our time

  • A Sea Symphony

“Voices in the cast were powerful especially those of the intense and spectacular baritone James “Rigoletto” Westman, and the tenor Rene “Duca” Barbera.”

Daniel Raymond, atuvu.ca