Jack Holton was until recently a Young Artist on the Global Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio, having previously trained on the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama under John Evans and originally attending the Guildhall as an Actor. He is the grateful recipient of a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award, an Opera Awards Foundation Bursary, winner of the Musicians’ Company 2022 Saloman Seelig Award and is a Young Artist with Opera Prelude.

Recent and future engagements include Fiorello il Barbiere di Siviglia and cover Flowerdew Itch (Opera Holland Park), Count Horn Un Ballo in Maschera (Chelsea Opera Group) and cover Guglielmo Cosi fan Tutte (Opera North). During his time at the NOS (2022-23), Jack performed Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Belcore L’elisir d’amore as part of the National Opera’s residency at WNO and Youth and Love, a concert of Song at the Wigmore Hall.

Previous roles include Count Anckarström Un ballo in maschera (Opera Holland Park - Young Artist); Le Podestat Le docteur Miracle and Le Baron de Pictordu Cendrillon (GSMD); Don Parmenione L’occasione fa il ladro (British Youth Opera); Sky Masterson Guys and Dolls (West Green House Opera); Don Giovanni (for Rogue Opera and The Merry Opera Company); Eugene Onegin (Oxford Alternative Orchestra/The People’s Opera); 3rd Bandit Don Quichotte (Wexford Festival Opera); The Count The Marriage of Figaro (Hewletts Opera).

At GSMD in 2022, Jack performed Simon Miss Fortune; Ben Upthegrove The Telephone; Der Zar Der Zar lässt sich photographieren. At Opera Holland Park Jack performed the role of La Poigne Margot la Rouge, and Master Page Sir John in Love for British Youth Opera.

Other significant performances include Elder Brother The Hogboon and one of the Princes des ténèbres Le Damnation de Faust, both under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle with the LSO, and singing as the baritone soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under the baton of Joshua Weilerstein in Milton Court Concert Hall.