Baritone Jack Holton grew up in North Kent and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2019, Jack’s opera roles have included Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera), Mr. Jedermann (cover) (Scoring a Century– British Youth Opera), Sky Masterson (Guys & Dolls – West Green House Opera), Count Anckarström (Un ballo in Maschera – Opera Holland Park Young Artist), and Eugene Onegin (The People’s Opera). This spring he will perform as the title role in Don Giovanni (The Merry Opera Company), and in the summer he will perform as La Poigne (Margot le Rouge – Opera Holland Park). Jack was a chorus member for Wexford Festival Opera’s 2019 productions of The Veiled Prophet, La Cucina / Adina, and Don Quichotte, performing the role of 3rd Bandit in Don Quichotte. Jack was a chorus section leader in the ROH’s The Return of Ulysses at Camden’s Roundhouse, and he sang in the Princes des Ténèbres semi-chorus in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust with the LSO under Sir Simon Rattle, having previously sung as an Older Brother in Maxwell Davies’ The Hogboon with the same orchestra and conductor. Jack has co-led series of workshops for Longborough Festival Opera on Wagner’s Der fliegender Holländer and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.
Jack has also sung the baritone and bass solos in numerous oratorios, including Mendelsohn’s Elijah, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and the Duruflé and Fauré Requiems at the Aldeburgh Festival, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Chipping Campden Festival Chorus, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and a new composition written for Jack’s voice at the Wigmore Hall.