Jamie Woollard, Bass
Jamie Woollard is a current Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House, and a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio. In 2023 he was also a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Opera Festival, a BBC Music Magazine ‘Rising Star’, and made debuts with the CBSO, the BBC Proms, and at Cadogan Hall.
“Jamie Woollard’s terrifically sonorous bass, as deeply coloured as mahogany, swelled beautifully through ‘O Isis and Osiris’ and ‘In diesen heil’gen Hallen’…”
— Opera Today, November 2021, ‘A patriarchy-punching Magic Flute’
“Bass Jamie Woollard’s Immigration Officer thundered with Wotan-like authority, but he softened this gravity with poignant humanity in his account of the frozen man…”
— Opera Today, June 2022, ‘Taking wing at the Royal College of Music: Jonathan Dove’s Flight’
“Jamie Woollard was double-parted as Apollon and Tityé. He possesses an attractive bass with a strong resonance, which he employed intelligently in crafting his lines, which possessed both emotional depth and beauty.”
— Opera Wire, September 2022,‘Vache Baroque Festival 2022 Review: La Descente d’Orphée Aux Enfers’
