Repertoire
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
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Hamlet, Hamlet; Gravedigger
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Vanessa, The Old Doctor
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I Puritani, Sir Ricardo Forth
I Pirata, Ernesto
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Béatrice et Bénédict, Claudio
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Carmen, Escamillio; Morales
Les pêcheurs de perles. Zuniga
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Inventor; title role Sandy Keith
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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
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La Calisto, Endimione; Giove; Silvano
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The Ghost of Versailles, Beaumarchais; Figaro
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Margaret Gardener, Edward Gaines
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Lakmé, Frédéric
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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
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Iolanthe, Stephon
H.M.S. Pinafore, Captain Corcoran
The Pirates of Penzance, Major General Stanley; Pirate King
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Faust, Valentin
Romeo et Juliette, Mercutio
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Acis and Galatea, Polyphemus
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Hansel and Gretel, Father; Sandman
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Louis Riel, Sir John A McDonald
A Midsummer nights Dream, several roles
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The Cunning Little Vixon, Forester
The Makropulos Affair , Baron Jaroslav
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Silent Night, Lieutenant Gordon
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Die tote Stadt, Frank
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The Merry Widow, Count Danilo
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Pagliacci, Tonio; Silvio
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Cavalleria rusticana, Alfio
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Thais, Athanael
Manon, Lescaut: Monsieur de Brétigny
Le Cid, Saint Jacques
Louise, Philosopher
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Amahl and the night visitors, Amahl
The Consul, John Sorel
The Medium, Mr Gobineau
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The Ballad of Baby Doe, Horace Tabor
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Magic Flute, Papageno
Marriage of Figaro, Figaro, Il Conte, Antonio
Così fan tutte, Gulglielmo
L'oca del Cairo, Chichibio
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Tales of Offman, Lindorf; Coppélius; Miracle; Dapertutto
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A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski;
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L'amour des trois oranges, Leandro
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Dialogues des Carmélites, Marquis de la Force; an Officer, Footman
Les Mamelles de Tirésias, The Father, The Son
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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
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Dido and Aeneas, Aeneas
The Ferry Queen, Sleep; Corydon; Winter; Hymen
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Corrado D’Altamura; Corrado
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The Barber of Seville, Barbiere
La Cenerentola, Dandini
L'italiana in Algeri, Taddeo
Mosè in Egitto , Mosè
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Die Fledermaus, Eisenstein; Falke; Frank
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ford
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Solome, Jochanaan; Nazarene
Ariadne auf Naxos; Harlequin
Intermezzo, Robert Storch
Capriccio, The Count
Die Liebe der Danae, Jupiter
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Oedipus Rex, Messenger
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Eugene Onegin, Eugene Onegin
The Queen of Spades, Prince Yeletsky
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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
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Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Emperor Überall
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Sir John in Love. Sir John Falstaff
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Tannhausser, Wolfram
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LiKeur, Riel’s Heart of the North, Louis Riel
Concert
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St. John’s passion
Easter Oratorio
St Mathews passion
Christmas Oratorio
Many Cantatas
Magnificat
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Dover Beach
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Canadian songs (St. John’s girl)
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9th symphony
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Damnation if Faust
L’enfants du Christ
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The Snowman
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Requiem
Liebeslieder Waltzes
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War Requiem
Canticles
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Jephte
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Te deum
Messa Di Minuit
Caecilia, Virgo et Martyr
Missa Assumpta est Maria
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Old American songs
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Requiem
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Stabat Mater
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Light of Life
Dream of Gerontias
King Olaf
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The House Stands Not Far Apart
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Requiem
Five Mystical song
Handel
Esther
Alexander’s feast
Israel in Egypt
Messiah
Semele
Judas Maccabaeus
Acis and Galatea
Mahler
4th symphony
8th symphony
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Let Us Garlands Bring
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Les Béatitudes
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Seven Last Words of Christ
Nelson Mass
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Golden Harvest
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Celtic Mass
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In Terra Pax
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St. Paul
Elijah
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Requiem
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Carmina Burana
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Messa Di Gloria
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Fairy Queen
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Don Quicotte
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Oratorio de Noël
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La passione di Gesù Cristo
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Ordipus rex
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Prodigal Son
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Les Sept Paroles du Christ
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A child of our time
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A Sea Symphony