Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World, Neal Davies has since appeared with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera. He is a regular guest at the Edinburgh Festival and the BBC Proms, and has taken part in notable recordings of Handel's Messiah, Saul and Theodora for DG Archiv with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort. Recent engagements include Ariodates ("Xerxes") and Kolenaty ("The Makropoulos Case") for English National Opera and Zebul ("Jephtha") and Sharpless ("Madame Butterfly") for Welsh National Opera. Opera engagements include Papageno, Dulcamara and Sharpless for Welsh National Opera, Handel's "Belshazzar" under Jacobs in Aix-en-Provence, Berlin and Innsbruck and Ko-Ko ("Mikado") for the Lyric Opera of Chicago.