Jamie Woollard is a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House for the 2023 to 2025 seasons. Roles at ROH in these seasons are Zuniga Carmen, Zaretsky Eugene Onegin, Count Ceprano Rigoletto, Second Prisoner Fidelio, Dumas Andrea Chénier and Sciarrone Tosca. Cover roles are Timur Turandot, King of Egypt Aida, Colline La bohème, Orest’s Tutor Elektra, Angelotti Tosca and Zebul Jephtha.
In Summer 2023 Jamie performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera as a Jerwood Young Artist where he covered Snug in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and played Thierry in Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmélites.
Jamie is a Samling Artist, a BBC music magazine ‘Rising Star’ 2023, and was awarded second prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2021. In concert, Jamie has performed at Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, and with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 Jamie made debuts at Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists, and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah at the Symphony Hall.
Jamie graduated from Royal College of Music Opera Studio in 2023. At the RCM he performed the roles of Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Immigration Officer Flight (Jonathan Dove), Il Re in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco, and Jupiter Orpheus in the Underworld. Whilst studying he debuted at the Royal Opera House in the premiere of three opera scenes (Lost and Found, March 2022) including Bass aria ‘Detritus’ (Laura Reid), and covered Segeste and Tullio in Handel’s Arminio (Linbury Theatre, April ‘23). Other operatic credits include: Apollo & Titye La descente d’Orphée (Charpentier) for Vache Baroque Festival; Commendatore Don Giovanni for Brunswick Vocal Arts, the title role in Handel’s Saul with the Consort of Twelve, and Polyphemus Acis & Galatea for Eboracum Baroque.
