Nick Hardy works as a freelance opera chorister with Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Wexford Festival Opera, and Buxton Festival Opera. For London Festival Opera he has appeared as a principal in opera galas in Italy, Germany and Spain. For Scottish Opera and Buxton Festival he has had minor roles and major covers, whilst for semi-professional companies (including the Ahmadi Music Group, Kuwait) he has over 20 credits in major lyric and helden roles. As an oratorio soloist he has appeared throughout the UK and in France in major works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Stanford, Tippett & Verdi. He has taught singing for Shrewsbury School, Birkenhead School, Liverpool College, and The Hammond Theatre School, Chester. He has performed at The Theatre Arts Academy in St Petersburg. He works with ‘Waiters That Sing’, is the founder and director of Liverpool Italian Opera Co., and conducts the Wirral Community Choir. Recent and forthcoming appearances in 2019/20 include War & Peace with WNO at ROH Covent Garden, Götterdämmerung at Usher Hall for Edinburgh International Festival, Aida with Opera North at Birmingham Symphony Hall and other major venues, Les vêpres siciliennes for WNO, plus gala concerts for London Festival Opera in Lancashire, Cheshire and The Midlands.