After the completion of his formal musical education via a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, Malcolm Rivers joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych as an actor/singer .  He then moved to a full-time operatic career via Benjamin Britten’s English Opera group at Aldeburgh, where he worked extensively with Britten for many seasons.  Malcolm then became a contract artist with English National Opera at the Coliseum, where he sang the roles of Alfio, Alberich. Gunther, Pizarro, Escamillio, Germont Père, Caspar, Graf Lysiart, Mr. Flint, Mountjoy, Theseus, Kothner, Beckmesser, Telramund, First Nazarene, Dolochov, and many others.

Malcolm has also sung at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera, Seattle, Boston, Portland, New Orleans, Orange County, Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Omaha, La Fenice Venice, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Marseilles, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Brno, and many other international opera houses.

Malcolm’s career has also included extended spells with the D’Oyly Carte Company at the Savoy, and in the West End musicals Phantom of the Opera, Chess, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, and Pacific Overtures.

A considerable amount of Malcolm’s time is now set aside to encourage the development of artists through the Mastersingers company and its sponsors, and to coaching young professionals.

Malcolm’s recordings include La Fanciulla del West (Mehta, ROH), Otello (Elder, ENO), Pacific Overtures (Holmes, ENO), Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado (Pryce-Jones, D’Oyly Carte), Troilus and Cressida (Foster, ROH), and many videos.

In 2007 Malcolm created the role of Quant in John Wolf Brennan’s Night Train (based on Auden’s Age of Anxiety) at St. Gallen.