Ranald McCusker

Born in Scotland into a musical family, Ranald McCusker started singing from an early age, with his first operatic experience at the age of 4 as Sorrow in Madama Butterfly. He was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and then continued on to Douglas Academy Music School in Glasgow. After leaving school, Ranald spent two years in Cornwall as a choral scholar at Truro Cathedral. He has recently finished his undergraduate degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, and continues studying with Paul Nilon.

Ranald works regularly with a number of opera festivals throughout the UK and Ireland, including The Grange Festival, Wexford Festival Opera, Buxton Opera, Woodside Opera and Dorset Opera. During his time in Cornwall, Ranald sang for Duchy Opera as Matthew in the premiere production of Paul Drayton’s The Mermaid of Zennor. His latest appearances include the flamboyant ice cream seller Lippo Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at the RNCM and the more serious role of Orestes in Byre Opera Company’s Iphigenie en Tauride. In 2017 he played the protagonist Gardefeu, in RNCM’s winter production of La Vie Parisienne. Recent oratorio work includes the tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Requiem.