Fife Tenor Liam Forrest is a recent graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Matthew Best and Mark Wildman. In 2022, he graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a Bachelor of Music (Honours).

Liam will join the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Stuttgart for the 2026/27 season.

His operatic roles include Passerby in Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová (Glyndebourne), Young Puccini in Niall Morris’ Puccini: Man of the Theatre (Wexford Festival Opera), Hoffmann in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Preston Opera), Dorvil in Rossini’s La scala di seta (RNCM), Mr Rushworth in Dove’s Mansfield Park (RNCM/Byre Opera), and Bobyl-Bakula in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden (RNCM).

As an oratorio soloist, Liam has performed Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (St Andrew’s Chorus), Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (Bury Choral Society), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (Lancaster & District Choral Society), Mozart’s Requiem in D minor and Coronation Mass (Haddo House Operatic and Choral Society; Chester Choral Society), and Schubert’s Mass in G minor (Haddo House Operatic and Choral Society).

In concert, he has appeared as a soloist in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Christmas Concert, performed Lily Boulanger’s Psalm 130 with the Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall and Sheffield City Hall, and sung the Act I Finale of Puccini’s La bohème with Preston Opera and Blackpool Symphony Chorus.

Liam has also performed for the Dunfermline Carnegie Trust, the United Dunfermline Burns Club, and the Rotary Club of Dunfermline, including appearances at the Tiffany Window dedication ceremony for the Carnegie Trust and at John Cairney’s book launch of The Tycoon and the Bard. As an RNCM Songster, he performed the song cycle Other Love Songs with Sir Stephen Hough at the RNCM Concert Hall.

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